Richard Anthony

Richard Anthony born Ricardo Anthony Btesh 13 January 1938 19 April 2015 was a French pop singer born in Egypt who had his greatest success in the 1960s and 1970s He was born in Cairo Egypt to a family of prominent industrialists and diplomats As a child he lived in Egypt and Argentina as well as studying at Brighton College in England From 1951 he studied at Lycée JansondeSailly and settled in Paris He started studying law but after his fathers sudden death in 1956 became a doortodoor salesman to help support his family He also began playing saxophone in Paris nightclubs In 1958 as Richard Anthony he made his first recordings as a singer initially recording French language versions of American pop hits These included Tu métais destinée You Are My Destiny Peggy Sue and Nouvelle vague Three Cool Cats which became successful in France In the early 1960s he became one of the biggest French pop stars with other hits including Lets Twist Again Cest ma fête Its My Party and Et jentends siffler le train 500 Miles He started recording at the Abbey Road Studios in England and reached the British charts with the Englishlanguage songs Walking Alone 37 1963 and If I Loved You 18 1964 One of his songs I Dont Know What To Do arranged by Ivor Raymonde was released in the US in 1965 by Motown Records on the VIP label making Anthony the first European artist to appear for that company He recorded the Rolling Stones Ruby Tuesday as Fille sauvage in 1966 and his song Aranjuez mon amour based on Joaquín Rodrigos Concierto de Aranjuez became one of his biggest international hits in 1967 He remained popular in France having one of his biggest hits in 1974 with Amoureux de ma femme which was a cover version of an Italian song originally by Caterina Caselli Most of his recordings are cover versions in French In the late 1970s he remarried and moved to Los Angeles for several years After returning to France in 1982 he continued to record perform and appear on TV shows and in 1998 published an autobiography Il faut croire aux étoiles Over his career his total record sales were estimated to be at least 60 million He died in 2015 aged 77 Source Article Richard Anthony singer from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA