Danyel Gerard

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Danyel Gérard, 1983

Danyel Gérard (born March 7, 1939 in Paris ; real name Gérard Daniel Kherlakian) is a French pop singer and composer .

Life

Gérard was born the son of an Armenian and an Italian in Paris, but grew up predominantly in Rio de Janeiro . In 1953 he returned to Paris and was among other things a choirboy in the Notre Dame church . He later played in the rock and roll band "The Dangers". From 1959 to 1961 he was a soldier in North Africa. He then went to bistros as a singer and guitarist. He began to compose and wrote titles for stars like Johnny Hallyday , Sylvie Vartan , Dalida , Richard Anthony , Caterina Valente and Udo Jürgens , among others .

Gérard's first recording as a singer was in Memphis Tennessee . He had his breakthrough in 1971 with Butterfly , which he finally recorded in six languages ​​due to its success. It was in the charts in several countries for weeks, was awarded several gold records and is now one of the evergreens . The song also found its way into the feature film The Great Aunties Strike (Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb). To this day, the song Butterfly Gérard is the most successful hit in Germany. In 2003 it was presented in the RTL broadcast Die ultimative Chartshow as the most successful hit in the German single charts of the last 30 years.

After a few more recordings, Gérard returned to composing for others. He lives on a farm near Paris.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1971 Atmosphere DE44 (1 month)
DE 		- - - -

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1972: Danyel Gerard
  • 1972: Atmosphère 2 "From Japan to America"
  • 1974: Butterfly
  • 1974: A réenregistré les années folles de 1960 a 1965
  • 1975: Constatations
  • 1975: Rien qu'une vie ......
  • 1977: Gone with the Wind
  • 1978: Memphis Tennessee, un grand Amour ...
  • 1978: Mélodie Mélodies
  • 1982: Regard
  • 1983: Nostalgia
  • 1996: Route 61-96

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1972 Star portrait DE46 (2 months)
DE 		- - - -

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More compilations

  • 1972: Les plus grands succés de Danyel Gérard
  • 2000: Butterfly
  • 2002: Danyel Gérard (2 CDs)
  • 2010: 1958-1959

EPs

  • 1963: Je / Sortez sans moi / Toujours cette guitare / Elle est trop loin (with Les Champions)
  • 1963: America / Sugar Shake (with Les Champions)
  • 1964: On s'en balance
  • 1964: On s'en balance / Menphis Tennessee / Porque no / De acuerdo, de acuerdo
  • 1964: Je / Sugar Shake / America / Elle est trop loin
  • 1964: Memphis Tennessee (with The Memphis)
  • 1965: 66
  • 1965: Comme do it jeune

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1971 Butterfly
atmosphere 		DE1
gold
gold

(39 weeks)DE 		AT1 (1 month)
AT 		CH1 (16 weeks)
CH 		UK11 (12 weeks)
UK 		US78 (9 weeks)
US
from the movie The Great Aunts hit
sales: + 13,000,000
1972 Harlequin
star portrait 		DE12 (16 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
My City (From Japan to America)
Star portrait 		DE26 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
1973 Isabella DE40 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
1974 Ti-lai-lai-li DE37 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - - -

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

  • 1962: Le petit gonzalès (with Les Dangers)
  • 1963: America / Le petit bandit de Juarez (with Les Champions)
  • 1964: Ever (with Les Champions)
  • 1964: D'accord d'accord
  • 1970: Avec ces deux mains là
  • 1971: Le petit bandit
  • 1971: Même un clown
  • 1972: Caroline
  • 1973: Le gypsy
  • 1974: Ma carmagnole
  • 1974: Oh mom
  • 1975: Un grand amour
  • 1975: En ce temps la monsieur
  • 1976: Ou serons-nous Martin
  • 1977: Les temps changent
  • 1977: Mañaña, Mañaña, Senor
  • 1977: Gone with the Wind
  • 1978: Mélodie, Mélodie
  • 1978: Héloïse
  • 1979: Marylou
  • 1980: Pour vivre avec toi
  • 1981: Meloman
  • 1983: Sulirane
  • 1989: Butterfly (Original Version 89)
  • 1992: Good or Bad, On s'en sortira

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles Albums UK
  2. ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 444 .
  3. ^ Joseph Murrells, Million Selling Records , 1985, p. 323

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Gerard, Danyel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kherlakian, Gérard Daniel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pop singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris