MARCEL ZANINI. Musician and singer Marcel Zanini died at the age of 99 on Wednesday January 18, 2023, his family announced.
[Updated January 19, 2023 at 9:58 a.m.] His bob, his mustache and his round glasses had marked an entire generation: Marcel Zanini died on Wednesday January 18 at the age of 99, his family revealed to AFP . The musician, face of French jazz, died in a Paris hospital, his son, writer Marc-Édouard Nabe (pseudonym of Alain Zannini) told the same source. Marcel Zanini will be remembered in particular for his song You want or you don’t want, released in 1969, adapted from a success by Brazilian artist Wilson Simonal, Nem vem que não tem.
Born September 7, 1923 in Istanbul, from a Franco-Italian father and a Greek mother, Marcel Zanini participated in the explosion of jazz in France, playing the clarinet and the saxophone. During his career, the artist tried his hand at the cinema, but remained attached to the stage, where he continued to perform until the end of the 2010s. Marcel Zanini had also released an album, aptly called Tu do you want or don’t you want, in 2008. For three decades, until he was 96, he had performed at the Petit Journal St-Michel, in Paris.
