Jean Fauque

Jean Fauque , born in 1951 in North Africa, is a Parolier and writer French. He is also Chanteur, in a more anecdotic way.

Biography

An early vocation

Wire of soldier, feeling very early the heart of an author and dreaming to have a place in the world of the song, Jean Fauque starts to write and sing towards the 7 years age. He truly puts himself to compose his first texts at the 15 years age, influenced by the musics which rythment its childhood: the large ones of the French song like Georges Brassens, Charles Aznavour or Gilbert Bécaud, then soon mythical the Bob Dylan or Beatles.

Twenty years of patience

In 1969, at 18 years, it settles in Paris with an aim of making writing of songs its trade. In 1970, it meets the type-setter André Popp, who is then an international success with his title the love is blue ( Love is blue in english language version, sung by Claudine Longet). Extremely encouragements of this last, Jean Fauque records in 1972 a 45 turns as a song writer and performer, who will never leave in the trade but which will open some doors to him. He then starts to send his texts to large production companies musical which, very quickly, answer him positively. It will have however to wait many years to be made a name in the trade.

In 1975, it becomes acquainted with Alain Bashung, meets which initially leads on a history of friendship and fallen through attempts at collaboration, but which will prove later crucial for the continuation of its career. At that time, they write together about fifteen songs, ever exploited.

In 1976, Jean Fauque integrates the editions Barclay where, in addition to discovering the world of the professionals of the music of the interior and the team work which it represents, it at the time of making of the interesting meetings.

It is only in 1977 that at Barclay the first signed song Jean Fauque appears: the Highways , interpreted by the singer Charity . Between 1978 and 1979, it signs five or six 45 turns for various interpreters, but its royalty still does not enable him to live of its feather. Of 1980 with 1982, it becomes Sound engineer then Régisseur on the rounds of Alain Bashung.

It then wants to reiterate the experiment of the song as a song writer and performer, and produced, under the name of Janot , with the musicians of Bashung, in 1983 and 1984, two 45 turns, of which the title Beret and leather boots , which obtains a success of regard.

Of 1987 with 1990, Jean Fauque is devoted primarily, in collaboration with his/her friend Jacques Roseau, with the writing of two historical novels on the Algérie their common roots: the thirteenth convoy and the 113e be , published at Robert Laffont.

It returns in the world of the music in 1989, for its first collaborations led with Alain Bashung: three titles on the album Novice ( Bend! , Strange summer and You threw me ).

Recognition and success

In 1991, he Co-writing five titles of the album Dares Joséphine Alain Bashung, which will be sold with 400.000 specimens and which will receive three Victoires of the music. In 1994, it Co-writing entirely the album Adhesive tape of very the Alain Bashung, which contains the mythical title My small company and which obtains, in 1995, the Price of the Académie Charles-Cross-country race.

Starting from 1995, while remaining faithful to Bashung for each one of its future albums, it starts collaborations with various interpreters, such Jacques Dutronc ( It has anything says to me all said me ), Johnny Hallyday (seven adaptations of Anglo-Saxon originals on the album Destination Vegas , of which the city of the hearts in sorrow according to Lonesome town of Ricky Nelson), Patricia Kaas ( In my flesh ), Carole Laure, Isabelle Boulay, Marc Lavoine, Guesch Patti, Luz Casal, Art Mengo, Dolly, Aston Villa, Romance Serda, Anggun, inter alia.

At the end of the Nineties, it makes knowledge in a bar of the 11th district of Paris of the plastics technician Arnaud Cohen. This one pushes Fauque to be acknowledged which it has the major desire to write for itself. In 2003, Jean Fauque declares: “I never tested frustration to remain in the shade of the interpreters, but I always want to sing the things which I think of being the only one with being able to defend. ” It starts then the production of an album as an interpreter, while being surrounded of prestigious pianists type-setters come essentially from the world from the jazz, and which should appear in 2007. In 2005, he collaborates, as an author and that singer, with a title ( Hildegarde ) on the album Moonbootica of the duet electro German Moonbootica.

In 2006, Jean Fauque written for the 3rd album of Geostrophic, the old one protected from Mylène Farmer. He also collaborates on a title ( It balances ) in the first album of the actor Tchéky Karyo. In 2007, one finds it on the album of Vanessa Paradis (Chet Baker), the album blues of Johnny Hallyday and that of Geostrophic.

Style of Jean Fauque

The word games are in the middle same style of Jean Fauque, that it polished with the wire of his years of collaboration with Alain Bashung. Here, the recourse to the word game is never free: author impresses of a “lucid melancholy” which carries it to prefer to write on seldom light subjects, Jean Fauque thinks that “when a serious subject is covered, the " is needed; casser" with humor and it is there that the word game intervenes, for dédramatiser the situation, to summarize it and say some sometimes longer than a philosophical speech”.

Follower of the word games since his childhood, nourished readings of Boris Vian, San Antonio or Marcel Aymé during his adolescence, this mode of writing, if it became an automatism, does not constitute however for Jean Fauque an end in itself, which attaches also an crucial importance to the significance and the sonority of the sentences, thus summarizing his work of writing: “The word, it is the thought, it is also the social one and, as from the moment when it is destroyed, where one a ball of bowling in the ninepins of the words, one sends destroys the social play, appearances, one breaks this human comedy: it is the role of the humor, which is a little the weapon of the desperate ones. ”

Rewards

Price of the Academy Charles-Cross-country race in 1995 for the album Adhesive tape , entirely Co-writing with Alain Bashung
His collaborations were crowned of 8 Victoires of the music between 1993 and 2005, for 19 nominations.
In 2005, for the twentieth edition of the Victories of the music, military Imagination , Co-writing with Alain Bashung, is devoted by the Victoire of the Best Album of these 20 last years .

External bonds

Jean Fauque on MySpace
'' Jean Fauque: mosaic of the words. '' Biographie and discussion with Jean Fauque (pdf), extracted the review Notes of the SACEM, on the site of Manufacture Song
Meeting with Jean Fauque on OC-TV.net Interview carried out with the Marathon of the MOT. 2007

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