“He was crying”: Dany Brillant recalls his father’s reaction during his first concert in a legendary venue

At 58, singer Dany Brillant released a thirteenth album entitled Seventies. Guest on the set of 50′ Inside on TF1 this Saturday October 12, 2024, the father looked back on his childhood and particularly on his father.

Three years after his last album, Dany Brillant is making his comeback. On September 27, 2024, the singer released a festive opus called “Seventies”, paying tribute to this decade full of love and new sounds. But beneath this apparent joy of living, the 58-year-old musician first wanted to pay tribute to a loved one who died two years ago. His younger brother, Stevedied of a serious illness.

“During my visits to the hospital, we started talking about our childhood again. He was very happy that I brought him series like Bowler Hat and Leather Boots, Friendly Yours or Mysteries of the West. To listen to songs like those of Michel Fugain. And we remembered that we had a very happy childhood“, he revealed to Nice Matin last September.

Dany Brillant’s parents, Tunisians, had to start their lives from scratch upon arriving in France

Guest on the set of 50’ Inside facing Isabelle Ithurburu this Saturday, October 12, the actor returned to his motivation to make music, coming primarily from his father, a Tunisian Jewish immigrant. The one who defines himself as “vintage” says that ses “parents were chased out of the country where they were” because of anti-Semitism. Before arriving in France, his father had “a fairly important situation in Tunisia”. But when the family arrives in France, in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, the patriarch must start from scratch. “He found himself a warehouse worker in a supermarket so the fall was quite sad all the same.”, recalls Daniel Cohen, his real name. “It was still quite sad at home, it wasn’t always easy”, recalls Dany Brillant. An intimate experience that pushed him to become an artist: “I wanted to do a job to give him pride again.”

“Did you want to repair your dad’s melancholy?” asks Isabelle Ithurburu. “Ah, that’s nice: repairing.”, reacts the man who is also the father of three children. “That’s what reparation is. Transcend melancholy, and say that there is nothing definitive, even if we have trials. I wanted to overcome them for them.”, he explains. Before entrusting: “My father was proud when he saw me, the first time I played at the Olympia. He had a kind of pride, he cried in fact.”