Dean Reed: biography, cause of death, creativity

The singer, actor, musician, director and composer Dean Reed is famous for the older generation of Soviet people. Biography, a photo of this American in the Land of Soviets was replicated by many political and cinematographic editions. In the 70th American magazine People Magazine wrote about the actor that the Russians consider him the third most important American personality after the US president and the secretary of state. Newspapers were cunning: the popularity of these politicians in Russia did not even approximate to the glory of Dean Reed.

In 2018, he would have turned eighty. During his life he published about thirty albums. However, his fate turned out at least strange. He, of course, died at the peak of his talent, while having considerable influence on the army of his fans. Many thinking people had the impression that he became a bargaining chip in a too big game, from which he could not get out alive.

Childhood and Youth

The future singer was born on March 22, 1938 in Colorado (Denver). The family grew three sons. His father worked as a village teacher, and my mother was a housewife. Dean grew up alive, active. A ten-year-old boy was sent to a cadet school, where a restless child learned only a year.

The boy was fond of horse riding, track and field, basketball. At the age of eleven he was given a riding horse. And the parents had the imprudence to present him with a guitar for twelve years, and this gift seems to have determined his fate.

He grew strong, impetuous guy, always the leader of the guys Dean Reed. His biography in his youth shows a fickle, amorous and addicted nature. Fate was supportive of him, paying tribute to his talent. At the age of sixteen, Dean wrote his first touching love song Do not let her go.

In 1956, following the will of his parents, he entered the first course of the University's meteorological faculty in Colorado. During his studies, the student earned pocket money, playing guitar and singing songs in bars.

The first contract

In February 1959, his song "Memory" first made its way into the American hit parade. Two years later, the talented performer was able to sign a contract with the recording studio "Capital Records" (Los Angeles).

Dean regretfully dropped out of the university and entered the acting school of Warner Brothers. After the first disk, one after another came out the second, third, fourth. And each subsequent testified to the growing skill of the composer and performer.

In 1961, his fourth album Our Summer Romance took the 2nd position of the US national hit parade and became a vivid hit in the countries of South America. In the same 1961, "hot on the heels" of the newly gained popularity, went on a tour - to conquer the closest to his homeland continent - twenty-three-year-old Dean Reed.

Biography of him as an artist traveling, singing for his fans live, it begins with these tours. Stately, photogenic, with a pleasant timbre of voice, innate, and not acquired artistic charm and plastic movements, the artist very quickly became an idol for young Hispanics. He visits Peru, Argentina, Chile, Brazil.

Change of political views

Investigating the mysterious death of the singer, it is worth paying special attention to this period of life. After all, speaking in theatrical language, the plot of the plot occurred just then. Quickly gaining popularity, the American singer suddenly finds himself outside his homeland, in a society where his usual American values are not respected. He, as an artist (and this is understandable), tries to understand more deeply the people who admire his songs.

In Chile, the young singer gets acquainted personally with the future president of the country, Salvador Allende, a fiery orator, a man of deep intellect, the head of a socialist revolutionary party. His new friend, keen on the political struggle for the presidency, even then saw in a talented American, his potential supporter, a natural heightened sense of justice. An experienced lawyer played on it and won the game.

For a moment we will digress from the biography of the American for generalization. History has the property of repeating certain basic schemes. Thus, in today's confrontation of two worldviews in the Arab East and North Africa, echoes of events that occurred in the 60-70's on the South American continent are noticeable.

In those days Chile was in the sphere of competing interests of the Soviet and American special services. Some supported Allende, others tried to remove him from politics. Almost fifty years later, only a fraction of this information becomes the object of publicity thanks to the memoirs of a British professor, scout expert Christopher Andrew. However, for us this is not the main thing. The bottom line is that Dean Reed, being in Latin America and having contact with Allende, got into the focus of attention of external intelligence services.

The life of a singer in Argentina

For the innate talent, sincerity and touching songs about love, they were admired by the youth of Latin America. He collected full stadiums in Chile, Argentina, Peru, Brazil. Naturally, enterprising businessmen, seeing in Dean a profit perspective, offered him a contract for work in Argentina. And the producers were not mistaken. Here he had his own television show, he was popular, he made a fruitful film ("First Love", "Guadalajara in the summer") and, moreover, successfully recorded super-popular discs.

And at this time its directors on tours and managers were indignant. After all, Dina Reed, apart from creativity, carried away leftist views. And above all, the struggle for peace and poverty. He became close to the ideas of Marxism and the ideology of opponents of nuclear weapons. He actively joined the political struggle, and it is not possible to do this alone alone.

Soon everything in Argentina changed, after the thaw there was a reaction. To power in the country in 1966 came the dictatorial regime, supported by the CIA. Violence has become a common practice in combating dissent. By this time, Dean Reed, besides protests against the war in Vietnam, regularly began to take part in political rallies of the Argentinean sense. The singer became an oppositionist, giving benevolent concerts, the means of which went to prisoners.

The house of the unreliable singer was repeatedly fired from automatic weapons, which forced him to leave Argentina. It was impossible to stay in a country where his life was in danger.

Dean in Western Europe

From Argentina, Dean Reed flew to Spain. Biography of his travels, thus, continued in Europe. However, in June, cautious Spanish authorities preferred (away from sin) to hang a politically active singer with a label of unreliability and expel from the country.

The next seat of the actor and singer, and quite successful, was a cheerful and apolitical Italy. In the westerns of local directors, the singer Dean Reed was quite successful and did a lot. The biography of the actor says that this period of his life was bright and rich, the filmography was enriched with romantic roles in the films "The Band of Three Chrysanthemums" (gangster film about the Great Depression era), "Farewell Sabata" (western), "Pirates of the Green Island" (adventure tape ).

Actor's play, Dean Reed, finally received recognition. In 1964, Guadalajara was awarded two prizes at a festival in Mexico (Acapulco).

Dean Reed in the USSR

In 1966, from October 1 to November 30, the American ventured to make a tour "for the Iron Curtain", to the Soviet Union. He fell in love with our listener with the songs "Bella Chao" and "Hava Nagila". The Soviet authorities gave him a green light. The geography of his performances as a singer is impressive: Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilisi, Baku, Rostov-on-Don, Kislovodsk. And after playing them on TV, in the program "New Year's flame", songs "Elizabeth", his vinyl discs began to be sold to the USSR in hundred thousand copies.

The actor is shot in the films "God gave birth to them, I will kill them", "Zorro's Nephews". Dean Reed writes poems "To You", "My Poor Homeland", "

And again Chile, Argentina

Agree, if foreign intelligence services were working with Dean, then this stage in his life would be inevitable. In 1970, the singer actively participated in the election campaign of Chilean President Salvador Allende. Then, inspired by the victory of the democratic forces, Dean went to Argentina, where he organized a press conference in Buenos Aires, which called for the removal of the dictatorial regime. He was arrested, but after 16 days released and deported from the country.

After his friend, President Salvador Allende died in 1973 during the military coup in Chile, the singer went to Peru in 1975, then illegally crossed the border with Chile. Here the brave activist was put in prison for a long time, but soon released. The hardships stimulated his talent and forced Dean, as a creative person, to create a masterpiece. In 1977, the best film in his life was directed by Dean Reed.

Biography of the singer Victor Hara and his tragic death at the Chilean military putsch served as the main motive of this film.

Let's generalize the above: the singer, headstrongly, semi-illegally (and for this, at least, needs the help of the residence) goes to a country hostile to his views in order to show political activity. And he realizes that he will inevitably "plant". And it really does happen. However, he is always and always pampered and released. What does the conclusion suggest? At least about the intercession of influential foreign intelligence and its legal profession.

Personal life

We will break the chronology of the narrative to tell about the personal life of the actor. In 1964, the twenty-six-year-old actor marries the Hollywood actress Patty Hobs, they travel a lot and touring. It was love. Biography of the singer Dean Reed shows: with their first wife, they traveled half the world. In 1967, he divorced Patty Hobs in Italy, but the feeling did not leave the former spouses, and they continue to live together, and they, already divorced, are born daughter Ramona.

A fatal quarrel happened in 1970. Patty resisted that Dean traveled to Chile for the election campaign of Salvador Allende. When he ignored her requests, the woman left him to the US, to her parents.

After that, Dean Reed spent some time in a civil marriage with Estonian actress Eva Kiwi. She, having grown fond of him as a creative man, also categorically did not share the hypertrophied political views of the American, and the pair soon parted.

About his next novel should be told in more detail.

In 1971, at the festival of the documentary, Dean "accidentally" met his future second wife - a thirty-year-old teacher and model Vibke Dornbach. After two years of communication, they got married. In 1976, Vibka and Reed had a daughter, Natasha. However, the next year after the birth of the child (unexpectedly quickly, is not it?) Divorced his wife Dean Reed.

Biography, the personal life of the singer during the second marriage give the ground for some reflection. A logical question arises: "Was there a purely external" correction "of his fate?"

Why should we ask him? It was under the influence of Vibka (according to his recollections) that the nimble American Dean Reed settled in the GDR, and this strangely coincided with the interests of eastern geopolitics.

Since 1973, the biography of Dean Reed is related to his permanent residence in the GDR. His house appeared here. Here he returned from trips. Here he recorded 13 albums. Among the footage of the films was the "Brothers in Blood" (1975), a great western successor in the USSR, a western where Dean starred with Gojko Mitic.

By the way, after the divorce from Dean, the "teacher" Vibke Reed made a dizzying career in the Foreign Ministry (an organization where either diplomats or spies work). Such "accidents" are rather revealing. Comments, as they say, are superfluous.

In 1981, the fallen singer married the actress Renate Blume and adopted her son Alexander. Staying at an age, he takes a long and touching look after a woman, dreaming, at last, to find his quiet bay in life. Renata also fell in love with him.

At the height of glory

The last seven years of life fell to the maximum popularity in the world of the singer and actor. Its CDs are published in millions of copies. Any planned tours come true. At the same time, an element of politics inevitably exists in his work. So, in 1978, the singer took part in a farm demonstration in Minnesota (USA). He was arrested, the court was held, but the singer was acquitted. After which he returned to the GDR.

In 1979 he went to the Soviet Union to builders of the Baikal-Amur Main Line with a concert program Dean Reed. Biography, the songs of this paradoxical American, it would seem, won the entire Soviet audience and audience.

The singer had another trip to the US, perhaps fatal.

Provocation

On the threshold of his fiftieth birthday (and this is natural), Dean became, according to the recollections of the same Renata, homesick. In 1985, the director of the United States, Will Roberts, heated his interest in him with the documentary film "American Riot." And when the CBS channel invited to the TV show "60 minutes of Red Elvis", he had hopes of winning popularity in his homeland.

However, he fell for the bait: politically engaged showmen pursued opposite goals. They played along with the CIA, which had a long "tooth" on the singer.

Before the interview, the TV men deliberately rocked the anti-Soviet audience with snippets of tapes, where Dean was filmed in Beirut, posing with AKM; Was at a meeting with Yasser Arafat; Strolled along the Red Square. Under the announcement was the script and the show itself. Americans, educated on anti-Soviet propaganda, heard from Dean Reed, responding to biased questions, information, of course, their repulsive:

• Support for the erection of the Berlin Wall;
• Approval of the introduction of troops into Afghanistan;
• The criticism of American aiding Pinochet.

As a result, viewers piled up the studio with letters demanding to drive the "red" singer out of America. Dean Reed returned to the GDR morally devastated.

Version 1. Suicide

It was like a suddenly interrupted flight. The body of a forty-seven-year-old singer was found on June 13, 1986 on the southeastern outskirts of Berlin, on the shore of a lake, near the house where he lived. Law enforcers of the GDR came to the conclusion about suicide.

In their opinion, there was a logical proof that he had deliberately committed suicide against America. But not at all describes a person, who was Dean Reed, a biography. The cause of the death is probably caused by the fiasco that he suffered on the above show. The actor in the US was called a traitor, although he loved his homeland, criticizing her politicians. In fact, he was just able to share his true patriotism and his political views, contrary to the generally accepted in America. Undoubtedly, he suffered from a lack of understanding of this by his compatriots.

Strong silence Renata Blume strikes after the sudden death of her husband, accompanied by a mean phrase: "I'm sure it's not suicide," which is devoid of any comment.

Later on the widowed actress suddenly, as from a cornucopia, tempting creative proposals fell (for example, the role of Jenny Marks). It is awarded with prizes, titles. Is not this a kind of payment for her silence?

However, it should be given credit: the actress did not cunning. In the interview, she hoped that the truth would become clear when the documents stored in the archive of the security service of the GDR were revealed.

However, the sensation did not work. Not so long ago, the biographer of the singer Chuck Lozhevsky, having access to the secret archives, published information on Dean's death note containing a request to relatives about forgiveness written on the back of the script sent to him. In the stomach of the deceased was an incompletely dissolved tablet of sleeping pills. The journalist concluded that Dean, having decided to commit suicide, specifically took sleeping pills and went swimming.

Version 2. Murder

Consider the second version. It also has a right to exist. At least, the hackneyed scenario is one when a person writes a posthumous note under duress. Special services can not be denied the ability to sweep traces. Or maybe Dean unraveled the game, in which not publicized faces played with him?

Renata Blume in one of the interviews expressed her conviction that Dean Reed could not settle his life with this way. The actress never believed in it. She gives an indirect proof of this. Soon he was going to work on a new film. According to Renata, he "burned to them," he dreamed about him a few previous years. Therefore, the voluntary death of such a workaholic, as was Dean Reed, and even on the eve of the desired work, looked very unconvincing.

By the way, the relatives of the deceased are of the same opinion. And with them (and this is important) Dean never stopped communicating.

Conclusion

It seemed that the whole world was numb when it became known that a sudden and unexpected death of a darling of people from Eastern Europe and Latin America, Dean Reed. Biography, the cause of death, his songs became part of the legend of the actor - fighter, a man who is really fearless, unmerciful, values his convictions and is able to defend them, no matter how hopeless it may seem.

He, of course, was a man of remarkable talent and courage, and this combination is worth a lot. Therefore, foreign intelligence services of many superpowers fought for and against it. Any opponent would recognize in this remarkable person a worthy opponent. Such a person is easier to deceive or destroy than to win.