Andre Manoukian , born in Lyon the April 9th 1957, is a Auteur-compositeur, Arrangeur, Pianiste of Jazz and French variety.
It is impassioned for the Piano as of the seven years age and starts to play in manner Autodidacte. Later, whereas it is student, it sells organ in a Magasin to earn money. At twenty years, he studies off the music with the Berklee School Music of Boston. The formation supplements teaches him the composition, the Arrangement S and the Harmonie. On his return in France, André passes to the serious things and founds a group of jazz, his first Big-band: Horn Stuff. It composes in same time for singers and two albums of jazz-funk are recorded. It is also contacted to accompany the singer Michelle Torr.
In 1983, it discovers the singer Liane Foly, who will become her partner and of which it creates the first successes such as Progressively and Doucement . He worked with artists such as Michel Petrucciani, Richard Galliano, Charles Aznavour, Freddy Zucchet, Gilbert Bécaud, Diane Dufresne, Nicole Croisille, Natacha Atlas, Janet Jackson, Myriam Abel, Camille Bazbaz and Malia. He ensures arrangements and composes the musics of films such as Four stars and Jean-Philippe .
He is currently well-known general public for his participation, as sworn, with a TV-hook of M6, Nouvelle Star , since the first season at the side of Marianne James, Manu Katché and Dove Attia. In the emission, he is sworn the poet and psycho-érotico-cosmic Philosophe.
In 2004, It lends itself to the exercise Doublage in DVD no-claims bonus of Shrek II , where it doubles one of sworn during the contest of song. It also takes part in the emission prevent You everyone from sleeping on M6 presented by Marc-Olivier Fogiel where it draws up with his manner the “Psycho-érotico-cosmico-musical” portrait of the guests by also translating the name of a personality into Note with a melody which it composes and interprets on Synthétiseur. The February 5th 2007, André Manoukian presented the Crystal balls to dimensioned of Elisabeth Quin on Paris Première.
Starting from February 21st, 2007, it presents Dédé the fingers of fairy on Paris Première, emission around guests compared to pieces of Musique. For him, their life is a Chanson recorded on multitrack. To draw up the portrait of his guests, André Manoukian invites them to tell itself in a truth Studio of recording. He composes a single piece in his kind. With the “color” of each period of the life of its guest, it makes correspond a instrument and a musical line. With the key, a completely personalized piece, the tube of a life.
This same year, André Manoukian composes new the album of Beverly, candidate of the Nouvelle Star 4 and it also accompanies Miss Dominique with the piano during some by its concerts. He has been married with Stéphanie for 14 years. That made seven years that André works with the singer afro-British Malia of which the third album " Young Bones" in May 2007 left.
André Manoukian present for Nouvelle Star 6, at the side of three new will be sworn. The singers Sinclair and Lio come to take seat at its sides. Philippe Operates, musical journalist, will be the fourth nobody composing this new jury.
From 2008, André Manoukian will present behind his piano the second season of " DéDé fingers of fée" on Paris first. The guests will be only female personalities.
This play, named " The Fifth column " (in historical reference to the rumors of infiltration of German spies in the French Army during the Countryside of France in 1940), abstract and tacit between Andre Manoukian and Release , the irritation of Marianne involved James, Dove Attia and of Manu Katché (others sworn of the Nouvelle Star ), and the irritation of the direction of the M6 chain, which sought to prevent the continuity of this one. Thus the last challenge required by Release for the last Premium Time of season 2007 of the Nouvelle Star , namely to wear a Tee-shirt to the colors of the newspaper, was blocked on order of the direction of the chain which prohibited in André Manoukian to wear such a Tee-shirt, then made sew its jacket to prevent that it can open it and show thus the prohibited Tee-shirt. Manoukian then indicated in a discussion with the journalists of Libération : " I felt the spokesperson of the African women cousues" .
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