Benjamin Biolay

   
Artist: Benjamin Biolay

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 A L'Origine

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


   
 Clara et Moi (Arnaud Viard)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Negatif (cd2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Negatif (cd1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Rose Kennedy

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Trash yeye

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Often compared to the legendary Serge Gainsbourg, Benjamin Biolay is less clever to anticipate on some lovely wish Brigitte Bardot or Françoise Hardy to sing his songs when he can do it simply as easily himself -- although Gainsbourg did often duet with his protégées, to the highest degree notably Jane Birkin on the scandalous international hit "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus." Not that the handsome, honey-voiced Biolay hasn't worked with a few distaff vocalists on occasion, like, for case, his jr. sister, Coralie Clément, wHO has sometimes been compared to Hardy and Birkin. Biolay staged and wrote most of the songs on her 2001 debut, Salle dES Pas Perdus (which was released in the U.S. in 2002). Benjamin Biolay was innate in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, in 1973. His sire was a clarinet player and member of the local orchestra. Biolay played the fiddle as a offspring military man, going on to study the instrument at the Lyons Conservatoire. Over the years, his musical interests would grow to encompass classical (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven), American pop (Pat Berry, the Beatles), and traditional French music (Trenet). From the fiddle, he affected on to the sousaphone, trombone, guitar, and piano. When he was 13, he observed Gainsbourg's "Histoire de Melody Nelson," which would have a big influence on his own concept transcription (2001's Rose Kennedy). From his teens through his early mid-twenties, Biolay was a extremity of several groups, including Wind? and Mateo Gallion. The latter released a CD in 1994, which made little impact. In 1996, he was signed as a solo creative person to EMI, but his initial singles besides met with small success. Then, in 1999 he met Keren Ann Zeidel (aka Keren Ann), with whom he composed the 2000 French hit "Jardin D'hiver" for Henri Salvador's retort record album (Chambre Avec Vue). He would go on to cooperate with Keren Ann on Biographie de Luka Phillipsen (2000) and La Disparition (2002). In some descriptor or some other, Biolay has as well worked with Hubert Mounier (aka Cleet Boris), Isabelle Boulay, Françoise Hardy, and Jane Birkin.In 2001, Biolay released his full-length debut, Rose Kennedy, a concept record album full of hushed vocals, lush strings, and lyrical musings about the Kennedy menage -- and Marilyn Monroe -- largely from the point of view of syndicate materfamilias Rose. The recording features sound excerpts that educe those golden long time when JFK was in the White House, buddy Robert was lawyer general, and Monroe was on the silver gray cRT screen. Other than the English samples (from Some Like It Hot, Monroe's "River of No Return," etc.), Rose Kennedy is in French and wasn't released in the U.S. Also in 2001, Biolay issued the Remix EP, featuring newfangled versions of heptad Rose Kennedy songs. 2002 continued to be a prominent year for Biolay as he entered his own "dynasty" of sorts -- a Franco-Italian-acting dynasty, that is -- when he married Chiara Mastroianni, daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. In 2003, he released Négatif, featuring guest appearances by Chiara and Coralie.





Celia Cruz