Georgie Dann

Georges Mayer Dahan (14 January 1940 – 3 November 2021), performing as Georgie Dann, was a Spain-based French singer-songwriter, known for his popular summer hits.

Career Early life Georges Mayer Dahan was born on 14 January 1940 in Paris, to an orchestral clarinettist father. He studied eight years at the Conservatoire de Paris and excelled as a saxophonist. At the same time, he studied education. In 1964, he travelled to Spain to represent his country at the , where he performed "Tout ce que tu sais". with songs with catchy, danceable choruses and sometimes racy lyrics, such as "El Bimbó", "Macumba", "Carnaval, carnaval", "El africano", "El chiringuito", "La barbacoa", "El Koumbo", "La paloma blanca", "Cuando suena el acordeón","El Beaner", "Coctel tropical", "El dinosaurio", "Mi cafetal", "La cerveza", "El negro no puede". The first music video clips broadcast on Televisión Española corresponded to songs composed by him. Those were years in which he visited many television programs and his fame spread in Latin American countries, a fame that began to be eclipsed by artists such as Ricky Martín, Los del Río, Chayanne in the 1990s.

In an interview in 2012, at a late stage in his music career, he said that he had not worked for the month of August for the first time, because the economic crisis had affected the celebration of local festivals, forcing the only three galas for which he had rehearsed to be cancelled.

Georgie Dann's summer hits

1969 "Casatschok" 1974 "La rana" 1975 "El campesino" 1975 "Paloma blanca" 1977 "Mi cafetal" 1977 "Eres como una paloma" 1980 "Moscou" 1980 "El jardín de Alá" 1982 "Koumbó" 1983 "Carnaval, carnaval" 1985 "El africano" 1986 "Macumba" 1987 "El negro no puede" 1988 "El chiringuito" 1994 "La Barbacoa" 2003 "Vamos a la Pista" 2004 "Dale-Dale" 2007 "Mecagüentó" 2013 "La cerveza" 2017 "Viva el vino" 2018 "Buen rollinski"

Other songs 1970 "Santiago" 1972 "El dinosaurio" 2010 "La gallina cha-cha-cha" 2011 "El veranito" 2012 "A viajar"