Bernard Lavilliers

Bernard Lavilliers , of his true name Bernard Oulion, is a French singer born the October 7th 1946 with Saint-Etienne.

Biography

Resulting from a modest family, her father is employed with the National Manufacture of Weapons of Saint-Etienne (FARMHOUSE) and his/her mother is teacher. He listens to music on the record player that one offers to him for his 4 years, in particular the Companions of the song and Yma Sumac.

At 13 years, he becomes apprentice with the FARMHOUSE and also puts himself at the Boxe. He makes a small stay in reformatory following some larcenies. At its exit, it starts to work. Work seems to him insipid, it will write " later; At that time of my life, I sought myself: I did not know if I would be gangster, boxer or poet… " . It adheres to the Communist party in 1963. At 19 years it leaves for the Brésil, from where it returns in 1966. He is then regarded as unsubmissive person and is interned in fortress with Metz during one year.

At its exit, it starts to sing in the cabarets, its stronghold was At Jacky Scala, Rue Lacépède; one also finds it at the Court of the miracles in Bordeaux where Gerard Ansaloni forms his first part. It leaves in 1967 its first 45 turns. It obtains the price of the gold pink of the song in Montreux with " Frime". Its first LP leaves in 1968, with title its first name and enigmatic a Lavilliers which will become its name of scene. During the events of May 1968, he sings in the occupied factories of the area Lyon is born. In June, it makes the sleeve in Brittany. He exerts several odd jobs (restorer, manager of night club…), it Marie in 1970 with Evelyne.

It leaves its second album in 1972, the poets , and starts to have a certain notoriety, which is confirmed in 1975 with the Inhabitant of Saint-Etienne (and unforgettable the the spring tide ). But the dedication intervenes in 1976 with the Barbarians . It passes for the first time to Olympia where it makes a triumph in October 1977.

It settles with Saint-Malo, buys a boat but share quickly for the Jamaica, then New York and the Brésil. It returns to France for a series in concerts. The Années 1980 will be years of glory. The hooligan assagit a little but remains faithful to his image of fighter, of adventurer but also of rebel. Lavilliers devoted more than his share about drug. Although the most explicit songs remain " Lullaby for a shootée" and " Sax' Aphone" , it refers to the additive, heroin, coke, with the chichon and grass in several songs, like the effects, or environment around these substances. He also admitted having tested and having tried out the subject as a fine expert.

Marriages with Evelyne (1970) and Miss Li (1984). With the turning of the Seventies and Eighties, it is his/her partner LISA Lyon, world champion of body building, which will encourage it to work its body like a sculptor, which will contribute to the image of physical singer.

  • His/her Anne-Laure daughter is born in 1967.
  • Virginia, is born into 1972 from its second marriage with Evelyne. She makes an appearance in Fréquenstar of August 3rd, 1995 with Bahia in Brazil.
  • Guillaume is born in 1975 from the marriage with Evelyne. Sometimes it accompanies it on scene.
  • Salome is born in 1987. It devotes the song of the same name to him. It appears with him on scene, in particular in 1996 with the Sport hall.

After the multiple references to the idol of its beginnings, he sings with Léo Ferré with the Fête of Humanity in 1992.

Today there remains faithful to itself and its combat while singing for the altermondialists.

Bernard Lavilliers is the godfather of the Phare of Eckmühl to the point of Penmarc' H, in the south Finistere. In 2004, Bernard Lavilliers leaves his album Logbooks , new anthem with the voyage.

Texts influences and musics: main tendencies

  • the realistic song, the “communist” poets and the counter-culture gauchist post-Marxist influenced his first writings ( the Poets , the Inhabitant of Saint-Etienne ). The denunciation of (of) the system (S) develops in a posture protestor of confrontation with the middle-class in the Barbarians , 15th round , are Alive for You , but also with the intellectuals whom one calls today the sores. Musicalement, it then uses the influences post Doors and throbbing environments of the progressive rock'n'roll. What gives spectacles marked by the performance.
  • It gains gradually in audience and of respectability and, paradoxically, rather develops the music with the detriment of the dispute, by more descriptive texts accounts type of voyage ( Pouvoirs , O' Gringo ). It enamels there its small accounts or its descriptions of impressions rising suns, suns of all the latitudes. It takes share, with Gainsbourg with the introduction of Reggae influences, Brazilian and later African.
  • With Night of Love and State of emergency it carries out a formidable alliance of the dub and music New Yorkaise, on rhymes which claquent like truncheon blows. It should be noted that Gainsbourg leaves also Love one The Beat in the same years. All is allowed, nothing is not possible mark the end of this period.
  • Whereas it carries out the documentary ones in Nicaragua and in South Africa, Voleurs of fire , Gentilshommes of fortune and If return on the vein of the accounts of voyage.
  • Thereafter, Lavilliers makes returns to these various successive glorious periods: besides
  • Fields of possible the mark a return software and effective to Lavilliers of end of the year 70 and beginning of the year 80, the song Third knives echoes perfectly " C.I.A." and with " Change of hand, change of vilain".
  • Clair Obscure revisits in particular the Brazilian topics.
  • Freeze frame mark a will to approach its popular public on simpler sets of themes (simplistic) with " Hands of or".
  • Logbooks revisits the time of the accounts of voyage.
  • One often makes him the reproach that its texts, largely inspired of personal experiences, strictly do not follow the real chronology of the albums or its own life. Yes, imagination is with the capacity in Bernard. All is possible, nothing is not exact, but all is true. Absolutely nothing is really marketisé, since the animal builds its own image, following the example Renaud, of Higelin with which it made the beautiful days of the MJC and the alternate turners in the Seventies.

Poets

Songs of Bernard Lavilliers

  • the dresser of the station of Metz
  • Street of the thirst
  • Pierrot the blade (inspired by Pedro Navaja and Mack the Knife )
  • the truth
  • Listening
  • For the thousands of lost kisses
  • love and death
  • 15th Round
  • fragile Traffic
  • Attention
  • Eldorado
  • Night of love
  • to follow
  • the flower of the evil
  • the Samba
  • the love which goes
  • Capoeira
  • Ringard for the Reggae
  • the Salsa
  • Night bird
  • It is Rock' roll
  • the Mongolian clan
  • One seeks a whole Mama
  • Sœur of the zone
  • O' Gringo
  • Saignée
  • Vegas
  • Carmencita
  • It sings
  • maritime Messageries
  • Pigalle White the
  • Black thoughts (with Nicoletta) 1983
  • the Ball
  • the Marine summer
  • Balthazar
  • Betty
  • the Barbarians
  • Fensch Valley
  • the zone
  • the fear
  • Q.H.S.
  • Question of skin
  • extraordinary adventures of a banknote
  • Change of hand, change of unpleasant
  • the Gospel according to St Nanar
  • the CIA
  • the Spain
  • Utopia
  • Open letter
  • Urubus
  • Inventory of fixtures
  • the death of the Che
  • the spring tide
  • Big Brother
  • synthesized human Brothers
  • Saint-Etienne
  • San Salvador
  • Brothers of the Coast
  • Fortalerza
  • the walk of the English
  • Rock'n'roll City
  • Sertaõ
  • Kingston
  • New York July
  • Chinatown Paris 13th
  • Lyon - on-Saöne
  • Voyageur
  • Silences
  • Brooklyn
  • Berceuse for one shootée
  • voiceless Sax'
  • the antimémoires
  • Plus hard will be the fall
  • the music
  • High surveillance
  • Juke-box
  • the dancer of the south
  • black Sun (live)
  • Bas
  • Fuckin' life
  • Stand the ghetto
  • the curse of the traveller
  • State of emergency
  • Entrée of the artists
  • Guitar song
  • Junkie
  • Fauve of the Amazon
  • never belong to anybody
  • All is allowed, nothing is not possible

Discography

The first were republished out of CD.

  • First steps… (1968)

  • the Poets (1972)
  • the Inhabitant of Saint-Etienne (1974)
  • the Barbarians (1976)
  • 15th Round (1977)
  • be alive for You…? (1978) (as a public)
  • Capacities (1979)
  • O' Gringo (1980)
  • Live Turn 80 (1980) (in public)
  • Night of love (1981)
  • State of emergency (1983)
  • Barbarian Street , BOF of film of Gilles Behat (1983)
  • All is allowed, nothing is not possible (1984)
  • Olympia Live 1984 (1984) (in public)
  • Voleur of fire (1986)
  • Gentlemen of fortune (1987) (compilation + new logbooks)
  • Yew… (1988)
  • Live One the Road Again 1989 (1990) (in public)
  • Solo (1991)
  • Fields of possible the (1994)
  • Duets Taratata (1996)
  • Clearly-obscure (1997)
  • Stories (compilation) (1998)
  • the Gold of insane the (2000) (BD+compilation)
  • Stories in scene (2000) (in public)
  • Freeze frame (2001)
  • the margin - Bernard Lavilliers sings the poets (2003) (compilation)
  • Logbooks (2004)
  • Escale in Large Rex (2005) (in public)
  • Saturday evening in Beirut (2008)

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