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 ...