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- Works
- 1
Top works
- Texas Blues
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Film & TV
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Hervé Forneri (24 April 1945 – 24 April 2019), known professionally as Dick Rivers, was a French singer and actor who began performing in the early 1960s. He was an important figure in introducing rock and roll music in France. He was an admirer of Elvis Presley, who influenced both his singing and looks. His stage name came from the character, Deke Rivers, that Presley played in his second film,…
Known for
- Mi-temps — Dick Rivers2017
- Taratata fête ses 25 ans 100% live au Zénith — Self2017
- Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui2014
- Spirou, l'aventure humoristique — Self2013
- Mon amour de fantôme — Chalopin2007
- Le Furet — El Malo2003
- La Candide Madame Duff — Inspecteur Levy2000
- Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie — Le maréchal Nouvoilà1999
- Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 20001999
- Dorothée Show — Dick Rivers1987
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1945
- Active to
- 2019
Discography
- Je suis bien1962
- On a juste l'age1962
- À Seville1963
- L'effet que tu me fais1963
- Voulez-vous danser?1963
- Dick1964
- Rien que toi1964
- Dick1965
- Mister Pitiful1966
- Via Lucifer1966
Member of
- Les Chats Sauvages1961–1962
- Les Enfoirés1999–1999
- The Rock Band Revival
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- 10,424
- Total plays
- 67,665
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Dick Rivers (Hervé Forneri, Nice, France, 24 April 1945 - 24 April 2019) was a French singer and actor who has been performing since the early 1960s. He started his career in a rock & roll band named Les Chats Sauvages He was an important figure in introducing rock and roll music in France. He is known for being an admirer of Elvis Presley, who highly influenced both his singing and looks. His stage name came from the character, Deke Rivers, that Presley played in his second film, Loving You (1
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nice
- Place of death
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- chanson
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- RCA Victor
- Official website
- www.dick-rivers.com
- Image
- DICK RIVERS.jpg
- Significant event
- funeral
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1945-04-24
- birth name
- Hervé Émile Forneri
- Commons category
- Dick Rivers
- date of death
- 2019-04-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- pseudonym
- Dick Rivers
- place of burial
- Montmartre Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
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Article · Français
Hervé Forneri, dit Dick Rivers, est un chanteur de rock français, né le 24 avril 1945 à Nice et mort le 24 avril 2019 à Neuilly-sur-Seine. Il fait partie, avec Richard Anthony, Eddy Mitchell et Johnny Hallyday, des chanteurs qui ont introduit et popularisé le rock'n'roll en France au début des années 1960, genre musical auquel il est resté fidèle toute sa vie. Durant ses cinquante-huit ans de carrière, il enregistre trente-trois albums studio et trois albums live.
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