Alex Beaupain

Alexandre Beaupain, known as Alex Beaupain, born 15 October 1974 in Besançon, is a French singer and composer, both of his own songs, and of the music and songs for films, particularly those directed by Christophe Honoré. He has released several albums and received awards, both for film scores and the song albums.

Career

Beaupain's mother was a primary school teacher and his father worked for the railways and he has an elder sister and younger brother. As a child, with a home life where culture was important, he learnt the piano and sang in a choir. In 1992 he went to Paris and registered to study Sciences Po. He contributed to several musical shows in the late 1990s by the ''Compagnie les matelas à ressorts''.

His career took off in the late 1990s both in composing songs and the music for films, the latter in particular for the writer and director Christophe Honoré. His first album ''Garçon d'honneur'' was released by Naïve Records in 2005, and inspired for Honoré the scenario for ''Les Chansons d'amour'' in 2007 in which some of the songs were used.

Beaupain's second album, released in October 2008, was titled ''33 Tours'', consisting of twelve songs, ''I want to go home'' being the first single, the video for which was directed by Christophe Charrier.

In May 2011, the Festival de Cannes closed with a screening of Honoré's '' Les Bien-Aimés'', for which Beaupain had composed the songs. His third album, released in April 2011, was titled ''Pourquoi battait mon cœur'', and was arranged by Jean-Philippe Verdin. The first single was ''Au départ'', which drew parallels between the progress of the left in French politics and the situation of a couple. The album included a duo with Camélia Jordana, ''Avant la haine'', which had featured in the sound track of ''Dans Paris'', Christophe Honoré directing the clip.

Beaupain's fourth album ''Après moi le déluge'' was released on 15 April 2013, which preceded a concert tour which included the Olympia Paris and the Casino de Paris.

In 2015, he became involved in the project for a book « Les gens dans l’enveloppe » (People in the envelope) written by Isabelle Monnin based on anonymous photos she had acquired and for which he wrote ten songs on an accompanying CD, interpreted by Camélia Jordana, Clotilde Hesme, Françoise Fabian and himself. The success of the book, both with critics and the public, led to a show based on the project which was mounted at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2017. In 2016, he worked again with Christophe Honoré on the film « Les malheurs de Sophie » adapted from the work of the Comtesse de Ségur. The year also saw his fifth album, « Loin » followed by a concert tour which finished at Bataclan and at the Café de la Danse.
Beaupain was a member of the jury for the Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville 2018.

For the theatre he has written the music for two plays produced in Paris, directed by Thierry Klifa, both featuring Fanny Ardant.

In December 2018 he was among 70 celebrities supporting the Urgence Homophobie foundation, appearing in a clip ''De l'amour''. In 2020 a book by Kéthévane Davrichewy was published, centred on Beaupain, through her passion French chanson, entitled ''Un Chanteur''.

Discography

Albums

* ''Garçon d'honneur'' (2005)
* ''33 tours'' (2008)
* ''Pourquoi battait mon cœur'' (2011)
* ''Après moi le déluge'' (2013)
* ''B.O.'' (2014) – a compilation of songs written for and used in films, sung by Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Paul Schneider, Vincent Derlerm, Valérie Donzelli, Cyril Descours, and Beaupain himself
* ''Les Gens dans l'enveloppe'', based around the book by Isabelle Monnin (2015)
* ''Loin'' (2016)
* ''Pas plus le jour que la nuit'' (2019)
* ''Love on the Beat'' (2021)

Singles

* ''I want to go home'' (2008)
* ''Au départ'' (2011)
* ''Avant la haine'' (2011)
* ''Grands soirs'' (2013)
* ''Après moi le déluge'' (2013)
* ''Coule'' (2014)
* ''Loin'' (2016)
* ''Van Gogh'' (2016)
* ''Quand on appelle un chat souris'' (2018)
* ''Pas plus le jour que la nuit'' (2019)

Film and television scores

* 2000 : ''Nous deux'' directed by Christophe Honoré (short)
* 2002 : '' 17 fois Cécile Cassard'' by Christophe Honoré
* 2002 : '' Tout contre Léo'' by Christophe Honoré (also appears as actor / singer)
* 2003 : ''Qui a tué Bambi?'' by Gilles Marchand (with Lily Margot and Doc Matéo)
* 2006 : ''Un an'' by Laurent Boulanger (with Lily Margot and Doc Matéo)
* 2006 : ''Dans Paris'' by Christophe Honoré
* 2007 : ''Les Chansons d'amour'' by Christophe Honoré (also appears as actor / singer)
* 2008 : '' La Belle Personne'' by Christophe Honoré
* 2009 : '' Non ma fille tu n'iras pas danser'' by Christophe Honoré
* 2009 : ''La Belle Vie'' TV film by Virginie Wagon
* 2011 : '' Les Bien-aimés'' by Christophe Honoré
* 2011 : ''La Règle de trois'' by Louis Garrel (short)
* 2012 : '' Marie M.'' by Christophe Louis (short)
* 2012 : ''5, avenue Marceau'', title song by Jane Birkin on album ''ElleSonParis''
* 2013 : ''Boys Band Théorie'' by Christophe Charrier (short)
* 2014 : ''Le Cowboy de Normandie'' by Clémence Madelaine-Perdrillat (short)
* 2016 : ''Les Malheurs de Sophie'' by Christophe Honoré
* 2018 : '' Brillantissime'' by Michèle Laroque
* 2018 : ''Jonas'' by Christophe Charrier
* 2018 : ''Françoise Fabian'', album by Françoise Fabian, production and three songs
* 2020 : ''Claire Andrieux'' by Olivier Jahan (TV film)

Awards

* 2008 : Étoile d'or de la meilleure musique for ''Les Chansons d'amour''
* 2008 : Grand prix international du disque de l'Académie Charles-Cros for ''33 tours''
* 2008 : César Award for Best Original Music for ''Les Chansons d'amour''
* 2010 : nomination for César of the best score for '' Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser''
* 2012 : nomination for César of the best score for '' Les Bien-Aimés''
* 2012 : Cabourg Film Festival Swann de la meilleure musique for ''Les Bien-Aimés''
* 2013 : Grand prix international du disque de l'Académie Charles-Cros for ''Après moi le déluge''
* 2018 : Festival de la fiction TV de La Rochelle, best music for ''Jonas''Nicolas Bellet. Le palmarès de la 20e édition du festival de la fiction TV de La Rochelle présenté par les lauréats, Première, 16 September 2018
accessed 21 October 2018.

Notes and references

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French film score composers
French singer-songwriters
21st-century French male singers
1974 births
Musicians from Besançon
Living people