Dove Attia
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. Beginnings. 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 hand at composition and singing, particularly rock music. Dreaming of a music career, he formed his own school band with some of his schoolmates. After getting his baccalaureate, he settled in Paris where he studied at Lycée Chaptal and he became an intern at Lycée  Saint-Louis. He also continued his studies at l'École polytechnique and received 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. Career. 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 the 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) "" (2012), "La Légende du roi Arthur" (2015). In 2019, he was commissioned by the Japanese Takarazuka Revue to compose the music for an original musical Casanova based on the life of Giacomo Casanova. The Revue  had previously performed multiple musicals produced by him, such as Le Roi Soleil, and La Légende du roi Arthur. In popular culture. Starting 2003, he was part of the jury of television reality series "À la Recherche de la Nouvelle Star" on M6 with Varda Kakon, Lionel Florence and André Manoukian. He came back for future seasons with the program being renamed "Nouvelle Star" and when Marianne James replaced Varda Kakon and Manu Katché, who replaced Lionel Florence. He quit the program in 2007. Productions. List of best-known productions or co-productions: