Damien Sargue is a French pop singer known for his performance of Romeo in Gérard Presgurvic's Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour. A French native, he grew up in Caen, Normandy, France with his mother Miriam, his father Pierre, brother Julien, and his sisters Julie and Sarah, until his parents divorced when he was only a year old. When he was little boy he wanted to practice karate but his mom registered him in song lessons in Caen Ecole des Variétés de Caen. In 2009 Damien Sargue married his Romeo and Juliette co-star Joy Esther. The couple divorced in 2010. In 2017 he married dancer Emily Surde, who was also in Romeo and Juliette dance troupe, with whom he has daughter Billie-Rose, born in 2014.
Career
He started his career as a singer in 1992 in the programNuméros 1 de Demain in France and with his first single Emmène-moi. When he was 11 years old he decided that his artistic name was going to be Damien Danza, in relation to his favorite TV programWho's the Boss? where Tony Danza was the principal character. At 16 years old Damien auditioned in the show Notre-Dame de Paris for the character of a sculptor but that character was removed of the show, so they offered him to be alternate of Phoebus and Gringoire. In 1998 was his first time on stage in Palais des congrès de Paris : he had been on stage almost 80 times supplying Patrick Fiori or Bruno Pelletier. In 2001 he performed the principal role in Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour as Romeo Montaigue with Cécilia Cara as the role of Juliette Capulet. In 2004 he provided the French dub for Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera by Joel Schumacher. His first album as a solo called Merci was released. In 2006 he played the role of Romeo again in the Asia tour of Romeo et Juliette that launched in Korea. In 2007 he created his first album in Asia. In 2008 Damien had his first concert as a solo in Seoul, Korea. In 2010 Damien played the role of Romeo in the new version of the musical Romeo et Juliette in Paris. In 2012, he participated to the Jean-Jacques Goldman's tribute with Génération Goldmans album. He sang Né en 17 à Leidenstadt with Amaury Vassili, Anggun. In 2013, Damien was in the fourth season of Danse avec les stars. He joined the Forever Gentlemens project. In 2014, he joined the project Latin Lovers with Julio Iglesias Jr. and Nuno Resende plus others. In 2016, he played Aramis in the French musical Les Trois Mousquetaires. In 2018 he picked up the role of Roméo again in Roméo et Juliette for the Asia Tour in China.
