Benjamin Biolay

Benjamin Biolay , born the January 20th 1973 with Villefranche-sur-Saône, is a Chanteur French. He points out himself by the general public in Co-component an album of Henri Salvador in company of Keren Ann, in particular the song Wintergarden .

Biography

In 2000, Benjamin takes part in the recording of the Hôtel of the Universe of the French singer Raphaël Haroche. One hears it on the last title of the album ( Libre-Service ), where he plays a splendid melody with the piano.

Composer-songwriter recognized, it signed since 2001, 4 albums and a B.O of film. First of all, Pink Kennedy (2001), a history fantasmée of the family Kennedy, on bottom of pop Jazz there with arrangements sometimes intimists, sometimes dark. It leaves then Négatif , beautiful album in 2003, in which it Marie the Folk with its universe of cords, piano and keyboards of collection; its nonchalance a bit gainsbourienne makes wonder again.

Its ex-wife Chiara Mastroianni contributed to the choruses on this disc, harbinger of her project Home (2004). Indeed, it shares the voice parts on this wafer intimist in form of road-movie. The same year, he writes the original soundtrack of the film Clara and Me . He publishes in at the beginning of 2005 At the Origin , a collection of songs which he says more personal. The melancholy is always with the program and one notes the arrival of more extreme guitars on certain titles, such the History of a Boy .

One can without too much being mistaken to qualify his music of “romantic variety”. One understands by there a music with the varied styles (jazz, worked, rock'n'roll, pop - from where the generic name of “variety”) being an acute aware of the time which passes, of the suns which lie down and of the girls liked that one will not re-examine, milked what is called romanticism in literature.

Very subjectively, it is perhaps possible to evoke some titles representative of the work of the musician:

Sleepless nights (on the Negative album ). It seems that it is a homage to Patrick Modiano, so much the references to the universe of the writer are numerous.
the Coach Board : the topic of the half-turn which one will not make, free more never not to take again the coach/Planche/Villefranche. The simplicity of the worms and the adequacy of the music to the topic appear here in all clearness.

It composed of the texts and the musics inter alia for Keren Ann, Henri Salvador, Isabelle Boulay, her sister Coralie Clément, Juliette Gréco, Heather Nova, Francoise Hardy, Elodie Frégé or Valerie Lagrange.

Lately, Benjamin declared, during an interview, that “It is damage which the French song is polluted by singers like Bénabar or Zazie”. In Technikart, he declares in connection with Bénabar: The worst, it is Bénabar. And by far. He, it is the champion. I do not include/understand how one can want to be this guy. and in connection with Henri Salvador: It is a large jerk, not frankly, not generous, competitive. . One will learn on a plate from television that this interview was given whereas it was not as well as possible of its moral.

Discography

Live with Barbar with Matéo Galleon (1994), extremely rare CD.
the Revolution (Individual, 1997)
the Day Will come (Individual, 1998)
Pink Kennedy (May 2001)
Remix EP (2001)
Live to the Casino from Paris (2002 - Promotion)
Négatif (double CD, 2003)
Home (with Chiara Mastroianni June 2004)
Clara and Me (Original soundtrack, June 2004)
At the Origin (March 2005)
Trash Yéyé (September 10th 2007)

Quotations

I was always a flambor with the thunes, but I remained socialist. The money like objective, it is immonde; like reward, they is cool.
When there is movement collegial, it is inescapable to find you catalogued in the middle of people with whom you do not have anything to see. Me, this movement of the new French song me débecte…
It is nevertheless a language super breakage-mouth to be sung, the French language. And there are not twenty thousand references… Voice, dictions, tricks which I could find class.

External bonds

Official site
not-official Site with a community activates
not-official Site gathering work of Benjamin Biolay
selective Discographie with accompanying notes by Zoomrang

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