A shooting star. The title of the documentary that François Chaumont devoted to Mike Brant, broadcast on Friday March 12, 2021, at 9:05 p.m., on France 3, corresponds perfectly to the life of the singer of Israeli origin. A life passed at full speed. He died at only 28 years old, by throwing himself from the 6th floor of a building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris when he was at the peak of his career. Filante also because he only sang for five years after all. A dazzling career, between 1970 and 1975, which has nevertheless left traces, even today. Of Let me Love You at Just a tear Passing by Who will know, Mike Brant, born Moshé Brand, on February 1, 1947, was able to thrill his audience, mainly female, with his powerful and deep voice. Incredible when you know that he barely spoke French at the start of his career. Without forgetting an advantageous physique of beautiful dark brown.
More than 45 years after his death, his love songs have survived, generation after generation, imprinted in the collective memory. But on the private side, the singer has not known a love life of the simplest. On the contrary. He has known only a succession of disappointments. Her first love is called Sarah Itskovich. It is its neighbor in Haifa, Israel. The young man is only sixteen when he begins a relationship with this flight attendant, ten years his senior. Their affair, which lasted nearly three years, did not please her mother Bronia, who tried everything to end it. In 1968, Mike Brant met a young woman in New York where he left to work in a group. Her name is Michal tal, she is also Israeli and she works for the same group. Between the singer and the young woman, nicknamed Yona, which means dove in Hebrew, is passion. But it does not last long. Michal's contract ends in the summer of 1968 forcing him to return to Israel.
"Mike has always been left by the women he loved!"
In 1973, he met Guita, a young Canadian flight attendant. But she "was struggling to come to terms with his career and asked him to choose. He felt betrayedYona Brant, the singer's niece, said in an interview with Paris here, in April 2020. For Mike Brant, impossible to give up music. Despite, or perhaps because of his career, the singer has not known a happy love. Yona, her niece, confirms it: "Adored as he was, Mike has always been left by the women he loved!"He was besides tormented by a feeling. Was he loved for him or for what he represented? This doubt haunted him for a long time, he who was already of a restless nature. According to his niece, he was right to be paranoid. His last love is called Lena, a Swedish model. Mike Brant will not have had time to know if he had finally found the right person to build his life, since he died on April 25, 1975. A real meteorite that left an indelible mark on Earth.
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