Andre Manoukian , born in Lyon the April 9th 1957, is a Auteur-compositeur, Arrangeur, Pianiste of Jazz and French variety.

Biography

It is of origin Arménie and its second first name is Antranik, which means André in Armenian.

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.

Selective discography

Compositions and achievements

Achievements

André Manoukian also carried out albums of Michel Petrucciani and Richard Galliano.

Compositions

Arrangements

Catalog of films

Participations in the Nouvelle Star on a purely artistic basis

Season 2004

Season 2005

  • "Sex Bomb" of Tom Jones (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Marianne James with the song, Dove Attia with the electric guitar, Manu Katché with the battery).
  • My baby just cares for me of Nina Simone (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Manu Katché with the battery, the Mervyn candidate with the song).
  • All by myself of Eric Carmen (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Myriam Abel with the song).

Season 2006

  • the Bed of roses of Edith Piaf (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Manu Katché with the battery, Marianne James with the song).
  • I feel Good of James Brown (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Manu Katché with the battery, Garou and the candidate Dominique with the song).
  • Edge you feel it of the Jackson Five (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Christophe Willem and Dominique with the song).

Season 2007

  • "I' m so excited of Pointing sisters (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Myriam Abel and Miss Dominique with the song).
  • " Diamonds are has girl' S best friend " of Marilyn Monroe (Andre Manoukian with the piano, Virginia Efira and Marianne James with the song)

Sentences worships of Andre Manoukian

Season 2003

  • I appreciate the side Mad max meets Lara Fabian, on this level, that made an interesting psycho-erotic shock.
  • I would say the same thing in believed an enough sentence, that feels too the soap and not enough the pussy if you include/understand the image…

Season 2004

  • I like the side modern Nana Mouskouri post.
  • I like much your side cosmic cabaret!
  • You, be to you a kind of crooner rocker cosmic.
  • In spite of your look super cagole cosmic, you are better than that!

Season 2005

  • the swing, it was a swing of I--know-not which country, but not country of the swing.
  • the problem it is that you have the expression of a skin flick actor. You know, they make love but it is felt that they feel anything the whole what. It is terrible.
  • Là you sing as in a bar with whores of left nevertheless, i.e. a little intellectual.
  • I have weak for the singers with large testicles, then I will say yes.
  • It is as if you take a gonzess and that you strike it instead of him to make kisses, you have me very small little struck in my heart of teenageuse.
  • I like the side Calamity Jane of church fete but good…

Season 2006

  • Y' has this small out of date side which gives a taste… this small mushroom taste, you know?
  • It is the first singer hobbit whom I hear!
  • be to You the first fair singer, who has a serious voice, which makes me crack.
  • I like when the cowboys are made kisses under the tent.
  • It is psycho-erotic this vibrato.
  • One made sing tortoises, frogs, soon of the spermatozoa, but you, one wants more to intend you to sing!

Season 2007

  • Miss, you have a feeling poissonnière.
  • And erotism in all that.
  • a surrealist poet grungy, a singer folk on the armchair, of postmodern Steevy Wonder and a mystical crooner.
  • One has a singer of R' B intelligent!
  • Stop singing, because your mice will commit suicide.
  • You have a small Las Vegas side of left.
  • , one really feels to Him its pulsates sexual when he sings.
  • When you ace begun the song, I really was afraid that you make us of the drunk person Turkish delight environment barmitsva.
  • the guitarist, it was into major, and you you were as a minor, therefore that gave " mijeur".
  • Manoukian attended the match of tennis shoe Saint-Etienne/Maurienne gained 87/69 by the Greens, in company of Gaétane.

Anecdote of the " Dédéfis" , the fifth column of the Nouvelle Star

André Manoukian illustrated itself in a succession of challenges launched with journalists of the newspaper Libération . These challenges consisted with déclamer during the treating Prime Time weekly of the television program the Nouvelle Star of the sentences resulting from the articles of this emission written in Libé . These sentences were generally quotations of philosophers or writers famous (Jean-Paul Sartre, Lao Tseu, Gilles Deleuze, Saint Augustin…) not very easy to place in the context of an emission of entertainment general public. These challenges were accomplished each time, with two exceptions, exceptions which were followed of an invitation to the restaurant of Andre Manoukian to the journalists of Libération participating in the challenges.

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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