Born Daniel Xavier-Marie Balavoine on 5 February 1952 in Alençon, France, the
late singer and songwriter Daniel Balavoine began his career in the early 1970s
and ascended to the top of the French-speaking pop world in the early 1980s
before his untimely from a helicopter crash in Mali on 14 January 1986. In spite
of his short-lived career, he left a legacy that has inspired everyone from
French legends Jean-Jacques Goldman and close friend Michel Berger (Daniel
Balavoine was a part of the original cast of Michel Berger's iconic rock opera
Starmania in 1978) to Japanese pop-rocker...