Emmanuel Moire

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Emmanuel Moire
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Emmanuel Moire during the NRJ Music Awards 2013
Background information
Born (1979-06-16) 16 June 1979 (age 44)
Le Mans, France
GenresPop
Occupation(s)Singer
Years active2004–present
Labels Warner Music France
Website www.emmanuelmoire.com
Emmanuel Moire in concert at Dunkerque Emmanuel moire (5).JPG
Emmanuel Moire in concert at Dunkerque

Emmanuel Moire (born 16 June 1979) is a French singer, best known for portraying the role of Louis XIV in the French stage musical Le Roi Soleil .

Contents

Moire has released four albums (Là) où je pars (2006), L'Équilibre (2009), Le chemin (2013) and La Rencontre (2015). He sings and plays the piano, with a hundred tunes to his credit. He participated on TV show Danse avec les Stars , which he won in December 2012.

Career

At 21 years of age, Emmanuel was selected to take part in the 16th meeting of Astaffort, a training course for songwriters and performers. Between 2004 and 2007, he portrayed Louis XIV in the successful musical Le Roi Soleil, whose cast included Christophe Maé and Merwan Rim.

Emmanuel Moire released his first solo album, titled Là où je pars , on 13 November 2006. With British pop influences, the first album paid special attention to the melodies even more than the emotions. The piano, vocals and beautiful guitar segments led the listener to a place where love, sufferings and the small joys of the life all mixed. On his Facebook site, Emmanuel said his first album was "about the universal topics which I wanted to treat in a personal way. The role of an artist, it is to invite people into his universe, to give all that he has in him so that each one finds his own story there." "This album is the fruit of a lot of collaboration. I wanted it to represent me so that people could discover me, musically, there." "It is easy to see that this album is a reunion of those close to me at Astaffort. Those, who for several years, share in the same hopes and dreams: Claire Joseph, Yann Guillon, Benoît Poher, Davide Esposito, Christophe Beucher..." The first single from the album was "Le Sourire".

His second album, titled L'Équilibre was released in April 2009, and includes songs such as "Adulte et Sexy" and "Sans dire un mot" which were made into music videos. "Sois Tranquille" is a very personal song for the artist. In an interview by Deborah Laurent for 7sur7, the artist said: "The music was already written when my brother passed away. I wanted to speak about my brother, of his uncommon greatness. I lost my brother on 28 January. I just said to myself that it was not necessary for me to speak, because I was going to speak about my suffering. I wanted it to be more positive, a homage, some thing more spiritual. Therefore, I 'lent' my voice to my brother."

Emmanuel Moire represented France at the 2007 Sopot Festival in Poland performing his song "Ça me fait du bien" coming runner-up to eventual winner, the Polish band Feel.

In 2019, Moire participated in the 2019 edition of Destination Eurovision to attempt to represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the song "La promesse". He placed fourth overall in the final. [1] [2]

Personal life

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Emmanuel Moire in 2010

He and his twin brother Nicolas were born in Le Mans on 16 June 1979.

In early 2008, Emmanuel Moire was hit by a car outside his Paris residence. He received a sprained ankle and three cracked ribs. The accident caused him to miss a performance in Strasbourg and the NRJ Music Awards.

On 12 January 2009, Emmanuel's twin brother Nicolas was run over by a car. Nicolas went into a deep coma and died two weeks later, on 28 January 2009. He was just 29.

Moire came out as gay in the French LGBT magazine Têtu in October 2009. In that interview he said, "I hope to live a normal discreet life. I am at peace with myself." [3]

Charity work

Moire has been a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 2014. [4]

Discography

Albums

YearAlbumPeak positionsCertificationNotes
FR
[5]
BEL
(Wa)

[6]
SWI
2006 (Là) où je pars 83494France: Platinum
2009 L'Équilibre 71992France: Gold
2013 Le chemin 1428France:Double Platinum
2015La rencontre2219
2019Odyssée6
[7]
323

Singles

YearSinglePeak positionsCertificationAlbum
FR
[5]
BEL
(Wa)

Ultratop
[6]
BEL
(Wa)

Ultratip*
[6]
SWI
2004"Être à la hauteur"919 32France: SilverLe Roi Soleil
2005"Je fais de toi mon essentiel"37 26France: SilverLe Roi Soleil
2006"La vie passe"
(Cathialine Andria & Emmanuel Moire)
28 16 Le Roi Soleil
"Le sourire"731   (Là) Où je pars
2007"Là où je pars"  18 
2009"Adulte & Sexy"9 2  L'Équilibre
2010"Sans dire un mot"11 14 
2012"Sois tranquille"21   
"Beau malheur"1111   Le chemin
2013"Ne s'aimer que la nuit"7231  
2015"Bienvenue"4641  La rencontre
"Toujours debout"16334  
2018"Et si on parlait d'amour"24   

*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

Other charted songs
YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
FR
[5]
2012"Au bout de mes rêves"
(with Amandine Bourgeois)
143Non-album release
2016"Le chanteur"115
Featured in
YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
FR
[5]
2012"Seras-tu là" (Live)
(Le Forestier / Ségara / Thomas Dutronc / Badi / Moire / Lââm / Foly / Grégoire / Clerc)
126

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References

  1. "Destination Eurovision 2019 : Emmanuel Moire, Chimène Badi, Bilal Hassani… Voici les 18 candidats en compétition ! - actu - Télé 2 semaines". programme.tv/news (in French). 6 December 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  2. Farren, Neil (26 January 2019). "France: Bilal Hassani to Eurovision 2019". Eurovoix. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  3. Emmanuel Moire fait son coming out dans TÊTU Archived 19 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine , 19 October 2009.
  4. "Emmanuel Moire" Archived 24 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine (in French). Enfoires.com. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 LesCharts.com: Emmanuel Moire page
  6. 1 2 3 Ultratop.be/fr/: Emmanuel Moire page
  7. "Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes – SNEP (Week 8, 2019)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 26 February 2019.