Maxime the Forester
See also: Forest (homonymy)
Bruno the Forester alias Maxime the Forester is a song writer and performer French, born with Paris the February 10th 1949.
Biography
Born on February 10th, 1949 in Paris from an English father and a mother which lived in England, Maxime the Forester has two older sisters. He studies with the Lycée Condorcet, then form a duet with his sister Catherine. Serge Reggiani interprets in 1968 one of its compositions: Ballade for a traitor . Maxime leaves his first 45 turns into 1969 to the two titles Stony heart, moon face and the Small Running away . He makes his military service in the paras, which will inspire the song Parachutiste to him. In 1971 its greater success leaves: San Francisco . In 1972, it makes the first part of its idol Georges Brassens and proposes to its first album My Brother followed the following year by the Steak . This same year 1973, it benefits from one service to the Olympia to record an album " Live".
In 1979, it inaugurates the first of a series of albums of recoveries of Brassens, recorded in public. It engages for carritatives causes: Divide, the Dumbs.
After a few years of crossing of the desert after mitigated successes of its preceding albums, it obtains a new success in 1987 with Né Some share , followed by the album including this last title as well as a recovery which it popularizes: Ambalaba . It leaves other albums in 1991 (with in particular Bille of Glass ), 1996 (album Passer my road , which will receive the Victoire of the music like Meilleur album, including " Small the fugue" , " Raymonde" , " Bitch of idée") and finally the Echo of the stars in 2000 (with " The man with the bouquet of fleurs").
(Reference mark: Joan Baez, Joel Favreau + Patrice Caratini… Amade… Spartacus the gladiator…)
Discography
Album
- 1972 My brother at Polydor n°2473.030
- 1973 the Steak (album)
- 1975 Travelling acrobat
- 1976 Anthem at seven times
- 1978 Maxime the Forester n° 5
- 1980 missed Appointments
- 1981 In these stories…
- 1984 better Days
- 1986 After shave
- 1988 Born some share
- 1991 Wisdom of insane the
- 1994 To pass my road
- 2000 the echo of the stars
Public recordings
Homages to Brassens
Maxime the Forester has taken again the integral of the work of Brassens appeared in 5 albums and an integral:
- 1996 Petits posthumous happinesses (12 new songs of Brassens)
- 1998 the Book récré (17 songs of Brassens to the use of the young imps)
- 1998 the Book (40 songs of Brassens in public)
- 1998 the Book (84 songs of Brassens in public)
- 2005 the Forester sings Brassens (integral)
With the advertisement of died of Brassens, on October 29th, 1981, the Forester was in concert. He took again his songs then, in tears.
Compilations
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1987 Collection “Master Series Collection”
- 1989 the Forester (Master Series)
- 1997 Essential
- 2004 Longbox
See too
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Official site of Maxime the Forester
- not-official Site of Maxime the Forester: the appointment of the buddies of Maxime
- Page devoted to collaboration between Maxime the Forester and Julien Clerc
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