Pascal Obispo

Pascal Michel Obispo is a Auteur-compositeur-interprète French, born with Bergerac on January 8th, 1965.

It starts to sing and play of the salsa in the Années 1980. It signs its first album in 1990, Along the river . As of its second album (More than all in the world) , its songs meet a sharp success which since never left it, for example Plus than all in the world , Laurelenn , Tombé for it , Lucie , Nobody and Fan . He is also known also for his escapades: its appropriate dresses, its haircut, etc Its name is fortuitously the Anagramme of the painter Pablo Picasso.

Pascal Obispo puts his popularity at the profit of humane works and particularly the fight against the AIDS. He signs also many titles for artists such as Florent Pagny, Johnny Hallyday, Patricia Kaas.

Detailed biography

  • 1965 : Birth with Bergerac one January 8th. Wire of a former player of foot of of Gironde of Bordeaux (max Obispo).
  • 1978 : Pascal leaves Bergerac to settle with Rennes.
  • 1988 : 1st Group Senso with Franck Darcel ex- Marquis de Sade.
  • 1990 : Exit of the 1st album Along the river at EMI.
  • 1991 : Sign its 1st contract of artist with Epic.
  • 1992 : Exit of the 2nd album More than all in the world .
  • 1994 : Exit of the 3rd album One day like today .
  • 1995 : 1st implication discographic with the profit of the fight against AIDS around the album Between smiles and tears . Meet with Lionel Florence with which it composes the credits of the cultissime series of TF1 " Under Soleil"
  • 1996 : From January on February, 13 dates in first part of Celine Dion including 4 with Bercy - Exit of its 4th Superfluous album .
  • 1997 : In November, collaboration with Florent Pagny on his album To know to like , which reaches 1,6 million specimens sold in the world.
  • 1998 : In January, it carries out the album of Johnny Hallyday: what I know .
  • 1998 : Exit of the album live resulting from the round Superfluous entitled Live 98 . Its last album is certified besides Disque of diamond with more than 1,3 million sold specimens.
  • 1998 : Writing, with Lionel Florence, of Its raison d'être , song gathering 42 major artists on the same song for the benefit of the fight against AIDS. This compilation reaches the 700  000 sales and pays more than 45 franc million to ECS.
  • 1999 : It carries out the password , the new album of Patricia Kaas. It takes part as a realizer for several reasons of the new album of Florent Pagny: Recreation . In December, it leaves its 5th album studio, Soledad , with 700  000 sales.
  • 2000 : After one year of work and 6 months of studio, exit of the album the Ten Commands and first in October with the Sport hall of Paris. In December, it composes No5el Ensemble with 112 artists who sing together on this song with the profit of the fight against AIDS. This compilation reached 600  000 sold specimens. This same year, he marries Isabelle Funaro in Paris on April 4th, and his/her Sean son is born a few months later, on October 11th.
  • 2001 : Pascal is elected Artiste Masculine 2000 with the NRJ Music Awards.
  • 2002 : Realization of the album Of the love best the of Natasha Saint-Pier which reaches more than 750.000 sales in the world and is elected Disque of Platinum in France.
  • 2004 : Exit of the 6th album studio Fan . It is about an double album studio/live.
  • 2005 : Exit of the biography Pascal Obispo, the lions share (Annie and Bernard Réval), France editions Worsens.
  • 2006 : May 15th Left the 7th album studio the flowers of the good . It contains the songs Rosa , Las Vegas , 1980 (with Melissa Mars) and (One lost the control of) the Machine . CD no-claims bonus contains new versions of 5 titles of the album as well as a new title " The essentiel". The first individual one is entitled Rosa (left the March 8th 2006), and is a homage to Rosa Parks
  • January 2007, left " Bad faith nocturne" in collaboration with Fatal Bazooka on which it takes the pseudo one of Vitoo.
  • June 2007, it takes again the role of Vitoo for its song " The singer idéal"
Projects to come…

  • from January 8th, 2007 to January 8th, 2008: new round.

Career of author

Especially presented like Type-setter and interprets, Pascal Obispo also wrote words on almost all its albums: for the album " One day like today " , he wrote " Assassinates " , " You complicate tout" , " 69%" , " Fallen For it " , " Chlore" , " Banquise". He in particular wrote certain words of his last album " flowers of the bien" in collaboration with Lionel Florence, but also those of the album of Natasha St Pier " The moment according to ". He even collaborated with Garou for " The injustice" , without forgetting " To light the feu" , one of greatest successes of Johnny Hallyday.

Its albums less and less count written titles of its feather, Fan being the first album where Pascal Obispo does not appear as author on any the titles.

When he collaborates with other artists, he is sometimes type-setter, sometimes realizer, sometimes musician, sometimes Co-interprets (or all at the same time) but he never does not write (almost) a text, except for Prendre the air (compound and interpreted by Calogero).

Discography

Pascal Obispo in some tubes:

" Flowers of the bien" is the sixth album studio of Pascal Obispo. The singer began his career in 1992 with " More than all with the monde" the piece title is its first success. But it is with " One day like aujourd'hui" and " tubes it; Fallen for elle" that its career takes off (500  000 specimens sold to date). " Superflu" , which leaves in 1996, propels it among the largest French artists thanks to the title " Lucie". Pascal Obispo connects then successes, as well in solo as within the framework of collaborations, and in particular the song " Its raison d'être " for " Together against the sida" and the musical comedy " Ten commandements". While it clamp " Important it is of aimer" in 1999, it dedicates " Millésime" with his/her Sean son in 2001, before proclaiming its fanaticism for Polnareff in 2004 in " Fan" , which enables him to traverse the roads of France successfully more than 500.000 spectators and a victory of the music.

Tubes

Pascal Obispo
  • Mourir tomorrow
  • It is the music (From one piano to another)
  • Rosa
  • the flowers of the good
  • 1980 (with Mélissa Mars)

    • Vitoo

    Its albums

    Figures only for France, the real figures are thus more important.

    Its collaborations

    Pascal Obispo collaborated with very many artists. Most remarkable collaborations sont :