Gabriel Yacoub is a French musician, songwriter and visual artist.

Biography

Yacoub was born in 1952, in Paris, of a Lebanese father and a French mother.gabriel yacoub : biographie
/ref> He was a guitarist and singer with the Alan Stivell group that toured France in 1971. Before he founded Malicorne, Gabriel and Marie Yacoub recorded the experimental album ''Pierre de Grenoble'' (1973). Indeed, this was originally intended to be the name of the group. It included contributions from

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. With Malicorne, Gabriel played acoustic and

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, epinette de Vosges and

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

, while Marie played

electric dulcimer An electric dulcimer is a dulcimer that uses an electric pickup to amplify its sound, similar to an electric guitar. They come in a number of different sizes, styles, and types. The most common type is the electric Appalachian dulcimer, but elec ...

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...

and

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a vio ...

. In 1978 Gabriel recorded a solo album called ''Trad. Arr.'', which featured English

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as guest.

Solo years

In the final year of Malicorne, 1986 Yacoub recorded ''Elementary Level of Faith''. After a four-year gap he toured as a duo with Marie. He released ''Bel'' which had a string quartet on it and

bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

from Jean-Pierre Rasle (who had previously recorded with

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). By the time of ''Quatre'' (1994), he had appeared on 15 albums. He finally recorded an album of his songs in English in 2002, ''The Simple Things We Said''. He has written a book of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

and lyrics, called ''Les choses les plus simples''.

Discography

Source:

Gabriel and Marie Yacoub

* ''Pierre de Grenoble'' (1973)

Gabriel Yacoub

* ''Trad. Arr.'' (1978) * ''Elementary Level of Faith'' (1986) * ''BEL'' (1990) * ''Quatre'' (1994) * ''Babel'' (1997) * ''Tri'' (compilation) (1999) * ''Yacoub'' (2001) * ''The Simple Things We Said'' (2002) * ''In concert'' * ''Je vois venir'' (2004) * ''De la Nature des Choses'' (2008)

References

External links

Discography
at music-city.org
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yacoub, Gabriel 1952 births Living people Musicians from Paris Celtic rock music Fast Folk artists French musicians French people of Lebanese descent