This Tuesday, July 26 took place the funeral of Dani, from 2 p.m., in the city of Perpignan. Among the guests, present for a last farewell, we might see Gérard Lanvin, Cali or Anthony Delon.
The sad news fell on Tuesday July 19, early in the morning: the singer Dani had succumbed to a heart attack at her home in Tours, where she had settled just before confinement. The 77-year-old artist left behind her two sons, Emmanuel and Julienfruits of his love with yéyés photographer Benjamin Auger while anonymous and personalities paid homage to his personality and to his long career.
Dani’s funeral: return to Perpignan for the child of the country
Among them, we might find the moving message of his accomplice Etienne Dahowith whom she had shared the duo Boomerangwhile Gerard Lanvin greeted the one he considered “his sister and her love“. The photographer Jean-Marie Périer, ex-colleague of Benjamin Auger at Hello friends, had for his part emerged from the archive photos showing in particular Dani alongside his brother Marc, both plagued by addiction. This Tuesday, July 26, his entourage and his admirers had an appointment in Perpignan, at the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Cathedral, on the occasion of his funeral.
Dani’s funeral: 1,000 multicolored roses for the singer
“It will be a rather classic ceremony. The cathedral will be decorated with 1,000 multicolored roses, songs will open and close the celebration. We follow the course presented to us by the priest Joël Marie. Father Joseph Marti who knew her well will be present but it is not he who will officiate“, had confided this beginning of the week the family of the singer, who had to give up his participation in theEurovision in 1974. But no song from his repertoire on the program, the artist never having “liked to listen“.
Dani’s funeral: Gérard Lanvin and Anthony Delon were in Perpignan
Among the guests, the photographers immortalized the singer on the spot Calivery moved in family, Gerard Lanvin or Anthony Delon. Following the ceremony, the body of Dani will be buried in the Saint-Martin cemetery, still in Perpignan, in the family vault where his parents and his sister Jeanne are already buried.
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