Michele Arnaud
Michele Arnaud , born Micheline Caré with Toulon the March 18th 1919 and deceased with Houses-Laffitte (Yvelines) the March 30th 1998, is a singer, producing and French director . She was buried the September 18th 1998 with the Cimetière of Montparnasse. She is the mother of the singer Dominique Walter.
She was named chevalier of the Legion of Honor and officer of Arts and Lettres.
Biography
After a passage to Cherbourg, it is with Paris where it follows courses to the Faculty of Arts and right to the Private school of Political sciences. It obtains two certificates of licenses of philosophy. In parallel, she attends with assiduity of the cabarets such as the Taboo and the Red rose .
The Lady of Milord
It is in 1952 that it begins in the song with the Milord Arsouille by in particular interpreting the Island Saint-Louis , on a music of Léo Ferré and words whose author, Francis Claude, is not other than her husband and the director of the known as cabaret. She obtains then the Price of the Song of Deauville with You wanted . In 1956, it represents the Luxembourg with the Concours Eurovision of the song where it arrives in second position with the two titles (payment of the time), do not believe of Christian Guitreau and the Lovers of midnight , words of Jacques Lasry and music of Simone Laurencin.In 1957, it became the permanent high-speed motorboat of Milord Arsouille. In its song recital, it is accompanied with the piano by Jacques Lasry and, with the guitar, by some Serge Gainsbourg which is, the remainder of time, pianist of environment in this cabaret. She discovers by chance and amazed which this Gainsbourg already wrote several songs that nobody interprets such as Défense to post and the Receipt of the insane love . It is under its impulse and that of Francis Claude that Gainsbourg will go up immediately on the scene of the Milord to sing its compositions. It will be also its first interpreter while recording, as of the following year, several of its works ( the Receipt of the insane love , Twelve beautiful in the skin , in January and Young women and old Sirs , the Woman of the ones under the body of the others , in October 1958).
The vocation of Arnaud is to be the interpreter of texts of authors, of Ferré to Vian while revealing new talents like Gainsbourg. Perhaps because of her requirements and in spite of her passages in popular varieties as the Olympia of which it is the American curtain raiser in 1959 or Bobino where it is head of poster in 1961, Michele Arnaud will preserve during all her career the label of “the intellectual one of the song”.
On guesses a curious and insatiable literary spirit, privileging, so the text. But it can “crack” for the melody. Thus, its subtle artistic direction does not make it hesitate to take again works of type-setters whom it has a presentiment of being of “large” of its century: Yesterday (I believed) of Lennon/McCartney, Green leaves off summer (the Blue of the summer) of Dimitri Tiomkin or Samba of una foot-note so (Song on only one note) of Antonio Carlos Jobim. Without to forget those of its composer-songwriter fetish Serge Gainsbourg that it revealed and that it ceased “to brood” throughout its career (reciprocally, it dedicated him its inébranlable fidelity of author), it takes again do not say anything (magistralement orchestrated with a vice of electric guitars, which astonished) the musical comedy Anna that it produced courageusement.
Elle seizes texts of unknown authors sometimes (Robert Ardray) would be this only for jubiler while fustigating, for example, rich on the side of Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy when it plays (truer than natural) disillusioned high bourgeoisie who entrusts her “concern ” with its hairdresser “ Angelo ”:
Parallèlement and tirelessly, it explores the song in all of the states: poetic, cinematographic, theatrical and literary (Hadjidakis, Apollinaire, Varda, Giraudoux, Dimey, Aymé). One understands that it did not touch a popular public, in the absence of short public, while diverting it without delay. It remains the unclassable interpreter whose priority was surely to unearth costs that costs of the innovative authors as long as his name of singer could support them, more than to make a career in the song because an unknown singer has to hardly be able to promote his authors. One includes/understands it of as much better when it is seen how it imperceptibly slipped towards the televisual production while launching original realizers and scouring emissions, vacuum-cleaning the television of dad as it vacuum-cleaned the song of the Années 1950. In 1972, always avant-gardist, it launches out in the European coproduction with the musical film Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii . More than “the intellectual one of the song”, the qualitative one which would be appropriate to him better would be “the intelligence of the song”…
Intellectual creative
Arnaud, dénicheuse of talents to the scene, will also launch artists like Guy Béart or the duettists Noiret and Darras.It with the idea to create a scene which would go to the front of the public while moving everywhere in France and that becomes, in 1964, under the sponsorship of Brassens and Brel, “the Variety of France” which will join the peregrinations Tréteaux of France of Jean Danet.
Innovating, it will on television produce emissions of a new tone such as the Green Grapes in 1963 then Tilt Magazine starting from 1966, emissions which will mark their times and will reveal realizers and presenters like Jean-Christophe Averty and Michel Drucker.
It is it still which, with Pierre Bourgoin, will produce the first musical comedy on television French, Anna , work of its fetish author, Serge Gainsbourg (1967).
Artist and arts person
It will find later its true dimension by specializing in the production of documentary artistic like the Tendencies of Art at the 20th century as well as literary portraits (Maurice Clavel, Jean Dutourd, Jean d' Ormesson). With its own production company, it will carry out then a film on Henry Miller of an international significance.
Discography
Compilations
Gainsbourg sung by…
- 2 CD EMI Music France 854067-2, 1996 and republication in June 2006, integral of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg interpreted by Michele Arnaud (MINOR ROAD 1):
Michele Arnaud
- 2 CD EMI Music France 520486-2 (1999)
- MINOR ROAD 1:
- MINOR ROAD 2:
Artistic productions and collaborations
- Starting from 1963: green Grapes , television programs of varieties carried out by Jean-Christophe Averty, writing and production
- 1964 - 1965: Neither fig, nor grape , television programs of varieties carried out by Jacques Rozier, artistic collaboration
- 1966 - 1968: Tilt , television programs of varieties carried out by Pierre Desfons, Jean-Pierre Spiero, producing
- 1967: Anna , televised musical comedy of Serge Gainsbourg realized by Pierre Koralnik, producing
- 1972: Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii , musical film carried out by Adrian Maben, producing associated
- 1974: Henry Miller, cursed poet , director and producing (TV)
- 1976: Oskar Kokoschka , documentary carried out by Gianpaolo Tescari, producing associated
- 1978: Mr Rene Magritte , documentary realized by Adrian Maben, executive producer
See too
- has Tribute to Gainsbourg, zoom on Michele Arnaud
- has Tribute to Gainsbourg, Michele Arnaud interprets…
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