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Divinidylle
''Divinidylle'' is the fifth studio album by French singer Vanessa Paradis, released on 27 August 2007 by Barclay. It was recorded between November 2005 and June 2007. Critical reception was favourable, with AllMusic suggesting that it was "likely Paradis' best album yet". The artwork for the album was designed by American actor Johnny Depp, Paradis' companion at the time. The lead single, "Divine Idylle", was released to French radio in June 2007. According to Francophonie Diffusion, it was the most-played French single worldwide during 2007. The track "Divine Idylle" was covered by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai under the title "Love Attraction" on the 2009 album ''Butterfly''. Track listing # "Divine Idylle" (lyrics: Marcel Kanche, Georges Kretek, Matthieu Chedid; music: Matthieu Chedid) # "Chet Baker" (Jean Fauque, Matthieu Chedid) ''(Trumpet by Ibrahim Maalouf)'' # "Les Piles" (Thomas Fersen) ''(featuring -M-)'' # "Dès que je te vois" (Matthieu Chedid) # "Les Revenants" (F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (; born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model, and actress. Paradis became a child star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's highest honours as both a singer and an actress with the Prix Romy Schneider and the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Jean-Claude Brisseau's ''Noce Blanche'', as well as the Victoires de la Musique for Best Female Singer for her album ''Variations sur le même t'aime''. Her most notable films also include '' Élisa'' (1995) alongside Gérard Depardieu, ''Witch Way Love'' (1997) opposite Jean Reno, ''Une chance sur deux'' (1998) co-starring with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, ''Girl on the Bridge'' (1999), ''Heartbreaker'' (2010), ''Café de Flore'' (2011) and Yoga Hosers (2016), directed by ''Kevin Smith''. Her tribute to Jeanne Moreau at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival during which they sang in duet "''Le Tourbillon''" beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divinidylle Tour
''Divinidylle Tour'' is the third live album by singer Vanessa Paradis. The album was recorded during her Divinidylle Tour and was also released with a DVD which documented the tour and Paradis' promotion of the album. The DVD won a Victoires de la Musique award for Best DVD Musical of the year. Track listing # "Irrésistiblement" 3:21 # "Divine idylle" 2:44 # Vanessa Paradis & -M- - "Les piles" 2:50 # "Be My Baby" 3:39 # "Dis lui toi que je t'aime" 4:32 # "Que fait la vie?" 4:25 # "La mélodie" 5:25 # "Junior suite" 3:35 # "Varvara Pavlovna" 2:28 # "Pourtant" 5:55 # "La bataille" 3:40 # "Joe le taxi" 4:04 # "Emmenez-moi" 3:58 # "L'incendie" 4:57 # "Les revenants" 4:15 # "Chet Baker" 3:01 # "Dès que j'te vois" 5:55 # "Saint Germain" 2:21 # "Jackadi" 3:36 # "Le tourbillon" 1:34 Personnel *Vanessa Paradis - vocals *François Lasserre, Matthieu Chedid Matthieu Chedid (born 21 December 1971), better known by his stage n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthieu Chedid
Matthieu Chedid (born 21 December 1971), better known by his stage name -M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player. Since 2018, he has been the most awarded artist at the Victoires de la Musique Awards with 13 awards, tied with Alain Bashung. Biography Matthieu Chedid was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France, the son of French singer Louis Chedid, and the grandson of the Egyptian-born French writer and poet of Lebanese descent Andrée Chedid who has written lyrics for him. His sisters are the music video and concert director Émilie Chedid (born in 1970) and French singer Anna Chedid (born in 1987), also known by her stage name of Nach. His brother Joseph Chedid (born in 1986), also known by his stage name of Selim, is also a French singer and a guitar and drums player. Chedid took an interest in music early on. In 1978, at the age of six, Chedid lent his voice to the chorus of his father's hit song ''T'as beau pas être beau'' alongside older ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franck Monnet
Franck Gilbert Yannick Monnet (born 13 September 1967, in Le Mans) is a French singer-songwriter. He wrote songs for the following artists: Vanessa Paradis (collaboration with Matthieu Chedid for the albums Bliss, 2000, and Divinidylle, 2007), Tryo (2003), Murray Head (2006), Claire Diterzi (2005), Enrico Macias (2006), Emily Loizeau (with whom he produced the album L’Autre Bout du Monde in 2005). ... in 2000 was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros for his album Les Embellies. He composed the soundtrack for the movie Mer Belle a Agiter (Pascal Chaumeil), produced by France 3 in 2004. In the same year, he was nominated for Prix Constantin for his album Au Grand Jour. He was also a part of the jury of multiple festivals: Chorus des Hauts-de-Seine's Song Contest (2003), Créteil International Women's Film Festival (2008), Wellington Song Contest, with Dame Jane Pierard (2011), Randell Cottage Residency (2022). He currently lives in New Zealand. Discography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour ( , ; born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, hy, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան, ; 22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was a French-Armenian singer, lyricist, actor and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his distinctive vibrato tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. In a career as a composer, singer and songwriter, spanning over 70 years, he recorded more than 1,200 songs interpreted in 9 languages. Moreover, he wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs for himself and others. Aznavour is regarded as one of the greatest songwriters in the history of music and an icon of 20th-century pop culture. One of France's most popular and enduring singers, he was dubbed France's Frank Sinatra, while music critic Stephen Holden described Aznavour as a "French pop deity". He was also arguably the most famous Armenian of his time. In 1998, Aznavour was named Entertainer of the Century by CNN and users of ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Carter
Bill Carter (born 1966) is a writer and director. He directed the documentary film '' Miss Sarajevo'', which consists of amateur video material he shot during his stay in the besieged city of Sarajevo. He is the author of ''Fools Rush In'', his memoirs of working for an aid agency during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He teaches journalism and film at Northern Arizona University. Biography Carter became involved in the Balkan conflict when he was traveling the world after his girlfriend died in a car crash in 1991. After traveling to Split, he joined The Serious Road Trip, a humanitarian aid organization distributing food and medicine to places the United Nations and the Red Cross would not go. Arriving in Sarajevo, he decided to stay with the Sarajevans, inspired by the way they tried to maintain the life they had before the siege began. He saw Sarajevo as key because Sarajevans refused to be divided along ethnic lines with many Serbs joining the defence of the city agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Fontaine
Brigitte Fontaine, (born 24 June 1939) is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with Stereolab, Michel Colombier, Jean-Claude Vannier, Areski Belkacem, Gotan Project, Sonic Youth, Antoine Duhamel, Grace Jones, Noir Désir, Archie Shepp, Arno, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. She is also a novelist, playwright, poet, and actress. Early life The daughter of two teachers, Brigitte Fontaine developed her taste for writing and drama very early. She spent her childhood in small villages of Finistère, then in Morlaix. At 17 years old, she moved to Paris to become an actress. In 1971, she was one of the women who signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly admitting to having an abortion at a time when it was illegal in France. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fersen
Thomas Fersen (born 4 January 1963 in Paris) is a French singer-songwriter. During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres. He released his first album in 1993; it gave him immediate name recognition. Fersen is an accomplished poet who regularly plays with language, using puns, rich rhymes, symbols and images taken from the realms of plants (vegetables and fruits) and animals (birds and various beasts) to tell stories or original fables, to recreate moments from daily life, impressions and sentiments, and also the dreams of ordinary people and their failings and faults. His deep and gravelly smoker's voice gives a particular tone to his songs, which belong to different musical styles depending on the album (rock, folk-rock or jazz and blues). The stage name "Thomas Fersen" comes from the names of Tomas Boy, a Mexican :fr:Tom%C3%A1s Boy footballer, and Hans-Axel de Fersen, Marie-Antoinette's Swedish lover. He was one of the first si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telerama
Telerama was an Internet service provider and technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1991 and promoted itself as the third ISP in world history. Telerama launched its Wi-Fi network in Pittsburgh in 2001, comprising over 200 nodes. It concentrated access mainly in "coffee-house" style arrangements. In 2003, Telerama's Wi-Fi network started appearing at sites in the Cultural District, Pittsburgh. In 2004 it started lighting up large buildings in downtown Pittsburgh. Telerama's stated approach to municipal Wi-Fi access was somewhat unusual. Eschewing the typical Mu-Fi concept of blanketing every square inch of a town area with signal, Telerama instead concentrated on specific locations like coffee houses and apartments. Locations were usually serviced by a high-speed DSL line a Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf ( ar, ابراهيم معلوف, ; born 5 November 1980 in Beirut) is a French-Lebanese trumpeter, producer, arranger, and composer. In 2022, he became the first Lebanese instrumentalist nominated at the Grammy Awards for his album ''Queen of Sheba'' in collaboration with Angélique Kidjo. Biography His father is trumpeter Nassim Maalouf and his mother is pianist Nada Maalouf. His uncle is the writer Amin Maalouf and his grandfather was the journalist, poet, and musicologist Rushdi Maalouf. After leaving his home country as a child during the Lebanese Civil War, he grew up in Paris with his sister Layla. He studied there until the age of 17 and earned a degree in General Science and Specialized Mathematics from the Lycée Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire in Étampes (Essonne). When he was seven years old, he started to learn how to play the trumpet from his father, a former student of French trumpeter Maurice André at the Conservatoire de Paris. He learned classical, bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfly (Jolin Tsai Album)
''Butterfly'' () is the tenth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on March 27, 2009, by Warner and Mars. Tsai worked on the album with various producers, including Adia, Paul Lee, Peter Lee, and Paula Ma. It was poorly received by music critics, who commented that the tracks were popular but lacked surprise, sincerity, and breakthrough. The album was pre-ordered more than 120,000 copies in Taiwan, becoming the country's most pre-ordered album of all time. It sold more than 1 million copies in Asia. In Taiwan, it sold more than 210,000 copies, becoming the year's highest-selling album. Background and development On July 4, 2008, Tsai's manager Howard Chiang said that Tsai would begin to work on her new album in August 2008. On October 14, 2008, it was reported that Tsai would sign a recording contract with Warner in December 2008, and Tsai had learnt new dance moves and had filmed music video in New York City by the end of September 2008, Howard Chiang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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