You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (January 2018)Click [show] for important translation instructions.
View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Jean-Patrick Capdevielle]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Jean-Patrick Capdevielle}} to the talk page.
Jean-Patrick Capdevielle (born December 19, 1945) is a French songwriter, composer, singer, musician and painter who influenced the French rock scene in the 1980s.[1]
With a mixture of American and British influences, Capdevielle's work is characterised by his raucous voice. Many of his lyrics are based on anarchist and visionary concepts, with rhythms commonly seen in 1960s London and late 1970s New York club scenes.
Following his studies, he worked as a journalist and a photographer for various French magazines including Salut les copains,Mademoiselle Age Tendre,SuperHebdo,Actuel (dedicated to counter-culture), and Lui (or Paris Match.[clarification needed] Following that, he became an artistic director and created a teen magazine, which he sold a short time later.[citation needed]
In 1970, he settled in the Balearic Islands in Ibiza, where he devoted himself to painting and composing music. In 1978, Capdevielle received a gift of an electric guitar from a friend and began to write his first songs. This led to the recording of his first record, "Solitude", which was described as "Reggae in French" and was produced by Ketchup Music (a label owned by French/American artist William Sheller). This first record was moderately successful. When the record label later ceased operations, his initial success allowed him to sign a contract with CBS.
In August 1979, Capdevielle's first album, Les Enfants des Ténèbres et les Anges de la rue, was released. Unexpectedly, the B-side track (Quand t'es dans le Désert) was more successful commercially than the single itself, becoming an anthem among students who participated or sympathized with the May '68 protests.[2] Thirty-five years later, Capdevielle is still remembered for this song in France.
The second album, /2, was released in 1980 and was also highly successful. The tracks C'est dur d'être un héros and Oh Chiquita sold 150,000 and 200,000 copies respectively.[citation needed]
His first two albums were certified platinum albums, with more than 200,000 copies sold of each. They were classed among the "Top 100 Essential French Rock Albums" by Rolling Stone in 2010.[citation needed]
Between 1980 and 1982, Capdevielle completed three concert tours in Paris, two at The Olympia and one at The Palais de Sports.
In 1982, Capdevielle released his third album L'Ennemi Public, recorded at Bearsville Sound Studio (next to Woodstock) with the participation of renowned American musicians such as Wells Kelly (a musical accompanist of Meat Loaf). The lyrics of the first song, Tu es pas fait pour ça, directly denounce the influence of the media ("They judge you in the name of the laws they invent / For them you are always on the dirty slope / You have to leave your carousel / If nobody protects you / They weigh your rage by the weight of their schemes / It seems you must sell everything in a window / You have to know how to crawl on the ground / To become a real pop singer.")
In 1983, a live album Dernier rappel was released. Capdevielle surprised his fans as this new release was very different musically to his previous records. For example, with Mauvaise fréquentations in 1984, Capdevielle provides a series of very personal, dark and minimalist songs. Some of these songs were received negatively by critics.[citation needed]
Capdevielle returned in 1988, with Nouvel âge, which remains one of his lesser-known albums. This album also featured personal reflection and dark inferences. The album Vue sur cour was released in 1990, and also went relatively unnoticed. In 1992, Capdevielle explored blues-rock with the album Vertigo, which was recorded in Nashville (this record is also largely unknown).
Besides his musical career, Capdevielle achieved other artistic pursuits of various forms; he hosted a TV Show, Les Totems du Bataclan between 1985 and 1986; and in 1986, he acted in a telefilm L'Enigme des Sables directed by Philippe Valois.
He also co-founded a production company with Paco Rabanne, Cadrages, which produced the feature film, directed by Mira Nair, Salaam Bombay that won the Caméra d’Or at the 41st Cannes Film Festival in 1988.
He also authored Linda William's musical success Traces released in 1988 and, the same year, participated to the charitable French song "Liban" with other French artists.
In 1993, he moved to the United States, where he studied cinematic techniques at UCLA in California. When he returned in 1995, he directed several video clips, including "Si tu te bats (If you fight)" (Renaud Hantson) and another one for Richard Cocciante.
In 1995, he also released the album Politiquement correct (a compilation signed on the Sony Music label, with four new titles).
In 1997, reconnecting with his old passion for classical music, he wrote, composed and directed Carmine Meo for the soprano Emma Shapplin, an album of contemporary opera, sung in 14th century Italian. The CD and the subsequent tour were an international success and the CD sold more than two and the half million copies; obtaining 39 Gold records and 17 Platinum records.[citation needed]
In 2001, Capdevielle wrote and composed a neo-romantic opera, still in the 14th century Italian: Atylantos… A legend of Atlantis, with Chiara Zeffirelli, Elena Cojocaru, Jade Laura Angelis and Nikola Todorovitch. The final goal still remains to produce a show based on this album.
In 2005, he co-produced the album Pop Tasty, which was written and composed by Montparnasse band.
In 2007, he wrote lyrics for several songs on David Hallyday's album released that year. His 13th album Heretique #13 was released that same year.
In 2008, Capdevielle supported Sweet Air in taking part in the Baltimore project in support of the hostages of the world.[citation needed][clarification needed]
In 2015, after 6 years of writing and composition, he decided to write 11 songs. The first drafts of these songs were released on social media and Capdevielle decided to launch a campaign on the crowdfunding platform KissKissBankBank. Within a few hours, the budget needed to achieve the album recording was reached and even exceeded. The album Bienvenue au Paradis (Capdevielle 14th) was recorded in "Britannia Row studios" in London and in Paris, and the Premium Version Album was released in November 2015 on his official website.
Following the release of this album, the "Welcome to Paradise" Tour, a participation tour was organised by his fans in French-speaking countries for a year.
He recorded a live album during this tour, which was released in 2017.
Claude Antoine Marie François, also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer. François co-wrote the lyrics of "Comme d'habitude", the original version of "My Way" and composed the music of "Parce que je t'aime mon enfant", the original version of "My Boy". Among his other famous songs are "Le Téléphone Pleure", "Le lundi au soleil", "Magnolias for Ever" and "Alexandrie Alexandra". He also enjoyed considerable success with French-language versions of English-language songs, including "Belles! Belles! Belles!", "Cette année là" and "Je vais à Rio".
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud, is a French singer-songwriter.
Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born 9 January 1970), known professionally as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 12 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time.
Dover was a Spanish rock band founded in Madrid in 1992. The group was composed of the sisters and group leaders Cristina Llanos (vocals) and Amparo Llanos, drummer Jesús Antúnez and bassist Samuel Titos. They recorded eight albums, selling around two million copies. They are known for their second album Devil Came to Me, which led them to international fame. In 2006, their sixth album, Follow the City Lights caused controversy as the style of the group changed from alternative rock to electronic pop. The band won, among other things, the revelation group awards at the 1997 Premios Ondas and the award for best Spanish artist at the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards. The band was disbanded in 2016 by Amparo Llanos, who has since begun another project without her sister.
Yann Pierre Tiersen is a French Breton musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion, and even a typewriter.
Indochine is a French rock and new wave band formed in Paris in 1981. They became very successful in the Francophonie, Europe and Latin America in the 1980s, with songs like "L'Aventurier" and "Canary Bay". Following the release of several critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, albums in the 1990s, the group returned to stardom with the release of Paradize in 2002. The band has sold over 13 million albums and singles.
Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. Some of Dutronc's best-known hits include "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille", "Le Responsable", and "Les Cactus".
Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of concert shows. Cerrone is a producer of 1970s and 1980s disco songs. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, including over four million copies in France, and eight million copies of Supernature. The single "Love in C Minor" (1976) reached No. 3 and was in the charts for two months, selling three million copies. With "Supernature" (1977), Cerrone merged symphonic orchestration with synthesizers. At the 1978 Billboard Disco Forum, Cerrone received six awards including Disco Artist of the Year.
Paul Julien André Mauriat was a French orchestra leader, conductor of Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, who specialized in the easy listening genre. He is best known in the United States for his million-selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was number 1 for 5 weeks in 1968. Other recordings for which he is known include "El Bimbo", "Toccata", "Love in Every Room/Même si tu revenais", and "Penelope". He co-wrote the song Chariot with Franck Pourcel. Pourcel and Mauriat.
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French retired singer-songwriter and record producer whose work remains hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017 he has been the highest grossing living French pop rock act. Born in Paris and active on the music scene from 1975, he had a highly successful solo career in the 1980s, before he was part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones, releasing another string of hits in the 1990s.
Dan Ar Braz (Breton pronunciation:[ˈdãːnːarˈbrɑːs]; Daniel Le Bras was born on January 15, 1949, in Quimper France. He is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of L'Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. As a leading guitarist in Celtic music band, he recorded as a soloist and with Celtic harp player Alan Stivell. He also represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.
Daniel Xavier-Marie Balavoine was a French singer and songwriter. He was hugely popular in the French-speaking world in the early 1980s; he inspired many singers of his generation such as Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michel Berger, who was his closest friend, as well as the Japanese pop-rock group Crystal King. Balavoine was a part of the original cast of the rock opera Starmania in 1978, which was written by Berger.
Alain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor. Credited with reviving the French chanson in "a time of French musical turmoil", he is often regarded in his home country as the most important French rock musician after Serge Gainsbourg. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s with hit songs such as "Gaby oh Gaby" and "Vertige de l'amour", and later had a string of hit records from the 1990s onward, such as "Osez Joséphine", "Ma petite entreprise" and "La nuit je mens". He has had an influence on many later French artists, and is the most awarded artist in the Victoires de la Musique history with 12 victories obtained throughout his career.
Patricia Noëlle Kaas is a French singer and actress. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson.
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson is an English singer, musician and songwriter, best known as the former co-frontman and founding member of the progressive rock band Supertramp. Hodgson composed and sang the majority of the band’s hits, including "Dreamer", "Give a Little Bit", "Take the Long Way Home", "The Logical Song", "It's Raining Again", and "Breakfast in America".
Patrick Chouchayan, known by his stage name Patrick Fiori, is a French singer of Armenian descent.
Elli Robert Fitoussi, better known as F. R. David, is a French musician. He is best known for his 1982 hit single "Words".
Axel Bauer is a French singer, composer, guitarist, and actor, born in Paris. A figure of the French rock scene, he was discovered in 1983 with the song "Cargo". Several times awarded a gold record, he has sold three million records and performed nearly 700 concerts in France and Europe.
Caravelli was a French orchestra leader, composer and arranger of orchestral music.
Paul van Haver, better known by his stage name Stromae, is a Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter and producer. He is mostly known for his music blending hip hop and electronic music. Stromae came to wide public attention in 2009 with his song "Alors on danse", which became a number one in several European countries. In 2013, his second album Racine carrée was a commercial success, selling two million copies in France and yielding chart-topping singles "Papaoutai" and "Formidable".
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
