was born Moshe Brant in 1947 to a Holocaust survivor and a resistance fighter in a displaced person's camp in Cyprus. The family relocated to Israel shortly thereafter, and as a teenager Brant began singing in nightclubs and cabarets. Brant was discovered by French star Sylvie Vartan, and he moved to Paris where he soon became an international pop star and teen heartthrob. The pressures of fame eventually became too much for Brant, and he committed suicide at the age of twenty-eight.
