Jean-Loup Dabadie, man of letters and lyricist, died Sunday, May 24, 2020 at the age of 81. A lover of words, he had participated in the writing of numerous films, several plays, Guy Bedos sketches and famous songs. Indeed, the one who shared Véronique's life collaborated with singers like Johnny Hallyday, Juliette Gréco, Jacques Dutronc or Dalida.
If there are many collaborations that have been more fruitful than others, they are those with Michel Polnareff or Julien Clerc. For the first, he wrote the famous tube We will all go to heaven while for the ex-coach of The Voice he created My preference, Women, I love you or My heart is too big for me. It is therefore a multitude of cult songs of French cultural heritage that he takes with him a little.
Jean-Loup Dabadie, a discreet dad
If everyone knows Jean-Loup Dabadie the author and lyricist, few know the papa, and for good reason he was very discreet about his private life. The man remained married to Marie Dabadie for eighteen years, with whom he had two sons: Clément and Florent; then had a daughter, Clémentine, with the journalist and woman of letters Geneviève Dormann.
Florent Dabadie is a recognized journalist who has worked extensively for French media from Japan. "Graduated in Japanese at the Institute of Oriental Languages in Paris and former student of the universities of Shizuoka and Tokyo (he also speaks English, Italian, Portuguese and "a little Korean")", specified our colleagues from the Dispatch in a portrait dedicated to the young man. His passion for Japan, he passed on to his mother Marie Dabadie with his wife Toshiko, as the JDD pointed out. Clémentine Dabadie is a discreet producer and as for Clément, it is impossible to know what he is doing as he cultivates discretion, like his sister.
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