Dick Rivers

Biography

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, Loving You (1957). Rivers was born in Nice, France. He started his music career in 1960 as the lead singer of the band Les Chats Sauvages, cutting his first record on his fifteenth birthday. In 1961, the British music magazine NME reported that a Rivers concert with his group Les Chats Sauvages at the Palais des Sports de Paris, whilst headlining with Vince Taylor, had turned into a full-scale riot. Rivers left Les Chats Sauvages in 1962 to pursue a solo career. His last album, Rivers, was released in 2014. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 2019, from cancer, on his 74th birthday. Source: Article "Dick Rivers" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Mon amour de fantôme

as Chalopin

Le Furet

as El Malo

Champs-Elysées

as Self

La Candide Madame Duff

as Inspecteur Levy

Mi-temps

as Dick Rivers

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000

30 millions d'amis

as Self

Sacrée soirée

as Self

Dorothée Show

as Dick Rivers