Henri Dès
Birthday: Born in 1940-12-14 in Renens, Vaud, Switzerland
Deathday: Alive
Henri Dès (born 14 December 1940 in Renens, Vaud, Switzerland as Henri Destraz) is a Swiss French-language children's singer and songwriter immensely popular in European Francophone countries. In 1970, he released his first album, Retour. Dès also founded his own record label, Disques Mary-Josée, which he named after his wife. In 1969, he won the Sopot International Song Festival. He represented Switzerland in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Retour". It was placed fourth. Henri achieved another fourth place, this time in the Swiss national final for Eurovision 1976, with the song "C'est pour la vie". On 15 March 2019 he joined striking school children in Lausanne protesting against climate change. Source: Article "Henri Dès" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Victoires de la musique
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Les belles histoires de Pomme d'Api
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L'École des fans
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Host Jacques Martin invites different talented children from various backgrounds to showcase their beautiful voices. The participants entertain and wow the audience with their lovely performances....
Discorama
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En direct de l'univers
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Henri Dès, his retrospective interview
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50 minutes of intimate exchange in which, the singer Henri Dès, reveals with emotion anecdotes of his childhood, the secrets of his 100 and 1 tours and finally his rebirth that has given him a renewal of freedom and creativity...
Henri Dès - Concert 96
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Henri Dès - Olympia 98
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The Golden Age of Songs From Our Childhood
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This 135-minute documentary offers to reopen this magical parenthesis which has seen the birth of a whirlwind of artists with very different styles. From Chantal Goya to Annie Cordy, from Pierre Perret to Carlos. They knew how to bring each in their own way generations of children into their poetic universe....
Henri Dès - Le Père Noël était en avance
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It's Christmas night. While the world is sleeping, a young child decides to get up just before midnight to try to see Santa Claus depositing the presents at the foot of the tree. But that is not his surprise when he enters the living room and finds that the old man with the white beard has already passed, the presents surrounding the conifer. It is then that Bis-Bis, the little robot who repeats everything twice, even his name, comes out of his package. For a few minutes, he will have fun with t...