Jeanne Cherhal is a French singer-songwriter.
Life and career
After spending her younger years in
Erbray near
Châteaubriant, Cherhal studied philosophy before moving to
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
. She started her singing career playing piano – solo, or accompanied by her guitarist Éric Löhrer in small concert venues. At the time she sported long, plaited hair. After a six-title CD (edited by Madame Suzie), she released an album entitled "Jeanne Cherhal" with the independent label
Tôt ou tard
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.
Little by little, her renown increased. At the beginning she sang
Georges Moustaki
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,
Jacques Higelin
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (; 18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s.
Early life
Higelin was born on 18 October 1940. His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian de ...
,
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 ...
and
Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica ( sr-cyrl, Емир Кустурица; born 24 November 1954) is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician. He also has French citizenship.http://www.serbia.com/emir-kusturica-artist-builder-and-anti-glo ...
; she was invited on by the group les
Têtes Raides
Têtes Raides is a French folk rock group.
Group history
The group was founded in Paris during the 1980s. Originally, they played music heavily influenced by the punk movement and depended on electric instruments. Their third album featured An ...
, sang as a double act with
Vincent Delerm
Vincent Delerm (born 31 August 1976) is a French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. He is the son of the writer Philippe Delerm and illustrator Martine Delerm.
His first album was released in 2002, the second, ''Kensington Square'', in ...
and sometimes as a trio with d'Albin de La Simone. She also performed in a series of concerts with Matthieu Bouchet, which culminated in the production of the CD-booklet ''
n même temps...' (produced in a limited edition of 1500 copies).
Cherhal's second album ''Douze fois par an'' (Twelve times a year), released in 2004, was a huge success. Along with this she received recognition not only from the music world, but also from a large and ever-increasing fan base.
Towards the end of 2005, she performed in the French version of "
The Vagina Monologues
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"
In 2006 her third album, ''L'eau'' (Water), produced by
Albin de la Simone. Musically speaking, it was much more polished and the themes it contained were at the same time more personal and more involved. This album would enable her once more to tour in France and abroad, performing in
Belgium
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and
Switzerland; in
Berlin
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,
London
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,
Dublin
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and
Beirut
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; in
Canada
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,
Congo,
Central African Republic
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, in
Gabon
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and in
Angola
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In February 2008, inspired by "the famous text message", she placed a previously unheard track on he
MySpacepage: "Si tu reviens, j'annule tout"... (If you come back, I'll cancel everything...)
2008 would also mark Jeanne's first steps in the world of cinema as she would play the main rôle in two
short film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
s:
– La consultation (the consultation): directed by Frédérik Vin in the framework of the French television channel
Canal+
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's campaign "Ecrire pour un chanteur" (Write for a singer)
– La copie de Coralie (Coralie's Copy): directed by Nicolas Hengel, nominated at the
Cannes Film Festival
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Discography
Albums
Others
*2001: ''Jeanne Cherhal'' (CD - 6 tracks, Madame Suzie. self-published)
*2002: ''en même temps...'' (Jeanne Cherhal & Matthieu Bouchet), Madame Suzie). self-published)
Selected filmography
*''
The Very Private Life of Mister Sim''
Awards
* 2004: Grand Prix du Disque de
L'Académie Charles Cros for "Douze fois par an"
* 2005: Revelation of the year at the
Victoires de la Musique
Victoires de la Musique (; en, Victories of Music) is an annual French award ceremony where the Victoire accolade is delivered by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The classical and jazz ...
References
External links
*
Jeanne Cherhalon
MySpace
Photos of Jeanne Cherhal in concertby Pierre-jean G.
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Living people
21st-century French singers
21st-century French women singers
1978 births