Patrick Hernandez - Born to Be Alive • TopPop

Patrick Hernandez ( 6 April 1949 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with “Born to Be Alive“ in 1979. At the time he wrote this hit, he lived in Aalbeke (Vlaanderen, Belgium). It became a big hit worldwide. The single grossed about 25 million dollar. More than 20 million copies were sold. It became a #1 hit in France in April 1979. In the Netherlands Top 40 it reached #5 in 1979. At the time ’Born To Be Alive’ was a hit, a very young Madonna at the age of 19 was in the entourage of Patrick Hernandez in Paris. She told in an interview that she worked with him in Paris. This video was recorded by TROS TV Program Rock Planet on 10 March 1979 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 10 March 1970 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.