Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 1, 1928
Died
September 2, 2009
Age
81
Place of Birth
Tighina, Romania
Popularity
0.4
Joël Holmès
Acting
Biography
Joël Holmès (1 August 1928 – 2 September 2009) was a Romanian-born French singer-songwriter. Joël Holmès was born under the name Joël Covrigaru in 1928 in Tighina, where his parents moved from Akkermansky Uyezd (father from the city of Izmail, mother from the village of Talmaza) of the Russian Empire (which owned the zone until 1918). In 1934, Holmès moved to France with his parents. During World War II, his parents Michel Covrigaru (1892–1942) and Hana Ehrlich (1898–1942), as foreign nationals of Jewish origin, were interned in the Drancy concentration camp, from where on 28 September 1942 t…
Also known as
Joël Covrigaru
