Francis Cabrel , born the November 23rd 1953 with Agen (France), is a Auteur-compositeur-interprète French.

Cabrel lives with Astaffort (close to Agen), is married, and father of two girls, Manon and Aurélie, and adoptive father since 2005 of small a Vietnamese.

Biography

Beginnings

Cabrel is born in a modest family originating in the Friuli in Italy, in a working father and a mother cashier. It has a sister, Martine, and a brother, Philippe.

Timid teenager, it is by listening to Bob Dylan and its famous piece “ Like has Rolling Stone ” that it is initiated with the guitar and composes his first songs. Thanks to its guitar offered by his uncle Freddy, it foresees an antidote with its timidity. At 16 years, it feels already the heart of a true musician and sings the songs of Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and obviously Bob Dylan, thus learning English by translating the words. He will tell later that its guitar enabled him to go more interesting to the eyes of the others.

Returned college Bernard Palissy d' Agen for indiscipline, it leaves to work in a store of shoes while playing in local balls with a group “Ray Frank and Jazzmen”, become thereafter “the Gallic ones” because of the moustache of each member. Indeed, at that time, Cabrel raises a style hippie, hair long and moustache. It assembles several groups with Jean Marc Pernon to the guitar.

In 1974, it takes part in a contest of song of Southern Radio during which follow one another of the candidates in front of a made up jury inter alia Daniel and Richard Seff. Its song Petite Marie dedicated to his Mariette wife enables him to gain the contest and to open to him the doors in the firm CBS.

In 1977, at the time of the countryside of the New French song of the recording company, it leaves its first disc “ My city” but it tests the feeling quickly that CBS does not let it express its true personality (testifies the particular version to it to Petite Marie of the disc which tries to gum the particular accent of the singer, version disavowed by Cabrel today). However, it occurs with the Olympia, in first part of Dave, during one month and gains the price of the Public to the Festival of Spa in Belgium in 1978.

Some of its multiple clips were turned in very picturesque villages such as the village of Artiguemy (65).

Discography

Albums studio

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Albums as a public

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Compilations

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Participations

  • the Soldier Pink (2006), musical tale of Louis Chedid and Pierre-Dominique Burgaud: the Night watchman
  • the Dormouse & Expensive (2006), duet with Michel Delpech in his album Michel Delpech &…

Anecdotes

  • Francis Cabrel is close to the political life of the commune of Astaffort. It was indeed elected city council man in March 1989. It is not it any more since 2004.
  • It by heart knows the totality of the repertory of Bob Dylan of which he is a faithful fan.
  • It collects the Guitare S (he has about fifty guitars of collection without counting its guitars of scene which he makes build by Luthier S).
  • It writes sometimes for other artists, in particular Pink Laurens ( When you leave , 1986), Isabelle Boulay or Maurane.
  • It had to cancel two concerts in New Caledonia, envisaged the 26 and October 27th 2006, following serious anonymous threats reproaching him twenty years old remarks about the political situation in New Caledonia of the time. He had in particular declared: “ the French do not have anything to make over there. They bled the country. Kanaks do not have a round and even not the instruction to fight ”.
  • Francis Cabrel has its puppet with the Guignols of information. It is called there " the grandmother with moustache" and its sentence fetish is " It was better avant".

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