Valerie Lagrange

Valerie Lagrange , of her true name Danielle Charaudeau , born with Paris the February 25th 1942, is a author-compositrice-interprets, French actress and writer .

Beginnings

At the end of the Years 1950, it is touched by new currents which arrive of the the United States, that it is the rock' roll of Elvis Presley or the fury of living of James Dean. But it is in film very French the green Mare , of the realizer Claude Autant-Lara, whom it begins in 1959 at the sides from Bourvil. It is besides thanks to this film, where several scenes are held in a barn, which it becomes Valerie Lagrange. Files INA: Valerie Lagrange interviewed by Philippe Bouvard in connection with his film '' the green Mare '' (1959)

She connects with films like Gigolo , Hardi! Pardaillan and the Tribulations of an Chinese in China but also goes up on the boards time to play in the Misanthropist . Claude Lelouch gives him, in 1966, a role in a man and a woman . In parallel, it records several super 45 turns and is success with the Guerilla of Serge Gainsbourg, Encore a day of our love and the Same day of Francis Lai and Pierre Barouh. But it is with the listening of other voices, those of the American protest songs, which have as a name Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. She also discovers R&B of Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett.

It is also it should be noted that she was the first girl to pose for the magazine of charm Him (number 1 published in November 1963).

The song and the mediums Hippie S

After May 68 will be decisive for Valerie who gives up the Show-business that it will never reinstate again really. It is its “enchanted bracket”, the Community voyage and life time initiatory Hippie S. In Europe, it is the time in the concerts pop and Psychédélique S of Amougies and Wight to which Valerie assists. Following a demonstration high-school girl, it records with the musicians of Elton John a precursory title of the Reggae in France, If my song could (1970). It goes in New Guinea to play in film emblematic Beatnik, the Valley , of Barbet Schroeder (1972). It also remains in Provence and with the Balearic Islands. Its steps will also carry out it in India and Italy. Lagrange, authenticates Hippie, is recognized like a spiritual sister of Jack Kerouac.

Meet Ian Jelfs

In 1973, it makes a capital meeting, that of a “angel fallen from the sky” (sic) to which it “will devote its life” (sic), a premonition of 1975: the brilliance English guitarist Ian Jelfs of the group Alice. Ian and Valerie leave in round with Graeme Allwright and interpret songs of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Donovan. Valerie plays, “to gain a little under”, in some films of her friend Lelouch: the Cat and the mouse , the Good and malicious the , If were to be remade . With Jean-Louis Aubert, the couple forms a group the time in some concerts. They play of the resumptions of rock'n'roll, of R&B but also the Reggae of Bob Marley. It is the beginning of the year Punk, the “No Future”. They are then the beginnings in the concerts “in the street and the restaurants” of Ian and Valerie and of the meals At Chartier.

Success and engagements

In 1979, thanks to an editor, Philippe Constantin, their models musical is presented to the director of Virgin to London, Richard Branson. It is the beginning of a fairy tale with the first French production of Virgin following the contract signed by Ian and Valerie the July 13rd 1979. It is with the English group The Sinceros that they record with London their album which leaves in March 1980. The song Is necessary to more to do it me is a tube. And it is a Disque of gold to celebrate the creation of Virgin France which opens its offices with Paris the same year. The albums are connected on a tempo Reggae. That does not prevent Valerie from remaining attentive with the humane causes. It is it which is in the beginning, in 1985, of the disc S.O.S Ethiopia of the French collective led by Renaud: Singers without borders.

Tests

However the Lagrange albums do not have the favors of the new team of Virgin France and its contract is terminated in 1986. It will be the return “On the road”. For Valerie, they will be theatrical episodical services with the Wolves with Lyon and cinematographic with My nights are more beautiful than your days . But for Ian, it will be a descent in the hells of alcohol. The December 13rd 1989, following a massive absorption of alcohol and Calming S, it sinks in a major Coma three weeks, taken care by Valerie, and awakes tetraplegic and dumb man. She will devote herself completely to her slow rehabilitation lasting of many years.

The return

The return of Valerie to the song, from now on without Ian, will be very difficult. However, following its meeting with Benjamin Biolay in 2000 and thanks to its collaboration, its new album will appear in April 2003. Serene and majestic Fleuve Congo with the consents of Valerie in foreword “I believe in the man” , his moving declaration with Ian My love for you and a homage to his fellow traveller by always, Kerouac . It is named in February 2004 with the Victoires of the Music as female artist of the year. Valerie will also sponsor, with the hippie Sylvain the first Hippie Festival organized in France, in 2005, with Saint-Jean-with Angély.

Distinctions

  • 2003 - Price Rene-Jeanne of SACEM

  • 2004 - Nomination in the category “Artist Interprets Female Year” with the Victoires of the Music 19 {{E}} edition

Quotations

  • If, instead of believing in hypothetical God, the men had believed in themselves and had respected themselves, much deaths, tears and sufferings would have been to them épargnées.
    Je do not believe in God, I believe in the man, his incredible life instinct which projected it in if little time if one considers the billion existence of the ground, of the trees where he lived by nourishing wild bays to remote planets that he explores now régulièrement.
    Rien was given to him. Its combat for survival in a hostile and cruel nature where the basic law “is concealed not to be killed” was rough and douloureux.
    Il is necessary to forgive him its cruelty and all its errors. It does what it can. It is in becoming. It improves all doucement.
    On sees the mountain well only when one of éloigne.
    Il is necessary oneself to learn the pardon.
    Le forgiveness is our size, our humanity, our altitude, our dignity, without him we are only “natural” and thus cruel.

  • The profit, this insensitive and cruel monster, became the value headlight on our planet. It is making regress our dignity of human beings towards cruelty. It generates distress more and more, of misery, injustice and of hatred throughout the world with the profit of a minority which, it, grows rich each jour.
    On outrageusement prefers to let to us believe that the crucial problem in France east to today wear the veil or not to the school, whereas each day of new social plans, that one had absolute cynicism to qualify degreasings, are lived, wrongly, as a fate by those which do not have to undergo them, and which a million children, only in France, live under the poverty line. It would seem that our leaders forgot that the despair and the frustration of people cannot be contained indefinitely by repression or the indifference. Major dissatisfaction is like water: one can contain it by artificial stoppings, but the day when the pressure becomes too strong, the stoppings yield, even more puissants.
    Quand one does not respect the human one, the history always showed that one does not have to expect that he you respecte.
    Je begs us, midnight suppers us. This is a heartfelt cry and anything else.

Discography

Albums

  • 1966 - Half angel, stupid half - LP Philips
  • 1980 - Is necessary to more to do it me - LP Virgin
  • 1981 - At home - LP Virgin -
  • 1983 - Pavements of eternity - LP Virgin
  • 1985 - Rebelle - LP Virgin
  • 2003 - Fleuve Congo - CD - Exxos/BMG Distribution

Compilations

  • 1987 - Compilation - CD Virgin
  • 1993 - Half angel, half demon - CD Spalax Music/Phonogram
  • 1998 - Best off - CD Virgin
  • 1998 - the Integral - 2 CD Virgin

Catalog of films

Television

  • 1963 : the inspector carries out the survey , series, episode Hunting
  • 1966: Anatole , telefilm of Jean Valère, Bianca
  • 1969: Coralba of Daniele D' Anza, Italian series
  • 1976: Investigations of the police chief Maigret , series, episode Scruples of Maigret of Jean-Louis Muller, Gisele
  • 1991: the Traveller (The Hitchhiker) , series, episode Homecoming

Videotex

  • 2002 - the Valley of Barbet spaniel Schroeder - DVD Zone 2 - Warner Vision France
  • 2003 - a man to cut down Philippe Condroyer - DVD Zone 2 - Seven 7
  • 2003 - a man and a woman of Claude Lelouch - DVD Zone 2 - Warner Home Video
  • 2005 - |Corsican Brothers (I Fratelli Corsi) of Anton Giulio Majano - DVD Zone 2 - LCJ Editions

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