Dove Attia
| Dove Attia | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 June 1957 Tunis, Tunisia |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | École Polytechnique |
| Occupation | Music producer |
Jules Dove Attia (Arabic: جول دوف عطية) better known as Dove Attia (born in Tunisia on 8 June 1957) is a musical producer television personality.
Dove Attia is a French citizen born to a Tunisian father who was an electrician and a French mother. At 15 he studied guitar and tried his had in composition and singing, particularly rock music and dreaming on a music career and formed his own school band with some of his schoolmates. After getting his baccalaureate, he established in Paris where he studied at Lycée Chaptal and mathematics at Lycée Saint-Louis and continuing to l'École polytechnique and finally a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) at Université Paris-Dauphine. After graduation, he taught mathematics, physics and chemistry at Lycée Chaptal where he had studied. And starting 1990, he prepared students at the lycée for placement in various higher education institutions.
Always having artistic aspirations, he worked in the early 1990s as an author and a journalist preparing in collaboration with Léon Zitrone a collection of documentary videos about the most important events of the 20th century. In 1996, he also co-wrote with Albert Cohen a biographical book La légende du 100m: Un siècle pour une seconde a biography of runner Carl Lewis. He held high administrative positions as General Director of the main French television station TF1's international operations, and later as president of Tekelec Europe, provider of electronic products.
Dove Attia then moved on to cowrite with Lambert Vincent the scenario for the Didier Delaître long feature television film Passion assasine. The film was produced by 7 Films (a production company run by Elie Chouraqui and Alain Cohen). Passion assasine was broadcast on M6 television station in 2000.
He found his niche in musical comedy with the production of a number of high-profile French musicals. In 2000, he produced Les Dix Commandements in collaboration with friend and associate Albert Cohen and Elie Chouraqui. It was a massive commercial success. he was producer of the musical Autant en emporte le vent (2003), Les Hors-la-Loi (2005), Le Roi Soleil (2005) and Mozart, l'opéra rock (2009)1789: Les Amants de la Bastille (2012), La légende du Roi Arthur (2015).
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