Yann Benoist

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Yann Benoist
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"Studio de Bretagne" Auray 2011
Background information
Born (1951-02-06) 6 February 1951 (age 74)
Dinan, France
Genres
OccupationsMusician, composer
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1969-present
Website www.yannbenoist.net

Yann Benoist (born 6 February 1951) is a French session guitarist, performer, singer , composer, conductor, and arranger.

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Early life

Yann Benoist was born in Dinan, Brittany. At age 8 his parents enrolled him in a music academy. They bought him his first guitar when he was eleven and he started learning to play with friends and different teachers.

Career

When Benoist was 18 he started playing and singing , juggling time between school and gigging with some local bands in Brittany and Normandy.

During 1975 he worked with the Switzerland duet Richard et Samuel  [ fr ]. The next year, he learned for a while with Pierre Cullaz (famous sessionman from the sixties) in Paris.

By the end of the seventies he was a member of the Francis Bourrec  [ fr ] quartet. They won the first prize at La Défense Jazz Festival  [ fr ] in 1978. That same year he got a certificate from the Berklee College of Music.

Since then he has worked on stage or sessions for commercials, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] TV movies, [6] [7] TV shows, [8] and musical comedies, [9] with a lot of numerous French stars such as Renaud, Gilbert Becaud, Serge Lama, Patricia Kaas, Mireille Mathieu, Richard Bohringer, Jean Guidoni, Sylvie Vartan, Sheila (singer), Hugues Aufray, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Julien Clerc, Dave (singer), Patrick Hernandez, Lucky Blondo, Nancy Holloway, Marcel Azzola, Sacha Distel, Murray Head, Maurane, Marie Myriam, Francis Cabrel, Smain, Dorothée, Gilles Servat, William Sheller, Jacques Loussier, and Michel Legrand.

In 1983 he was a member of Space, [10] with Didier Marouani, for the first big tour organized in the USSR. They performed 21 concerts in Moscow's Olympic Stadium, Leningrad's Saint-Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex and Kyiv's Palace of Sports for about 600,000 people, and in 1992 they performed the first concert authorized on the Red Square in Moscow, for 360,000 people.

In 1989 and 2002 he was musical director for Sheila at the Olympia. In 2011 he was conductor for Joel Prevost at the Alhambra.

He was involved in all Version of "Envoyé Spécial " on TV ( A2 , FR 2 ) from 1990 to 2016

He is a composer for APM Music and Universal Publishing.

Selective discography

As a leader

As a sideman

Didier Marouani, Yann Benoist, Bunny Rizzitelli (Space Moscou 1983) Didier Marouani,Yann Benoist,Bunny Rizzitelli (Space Moscou 1983).jpg
Didier Marouani, Yann Benoist, Bunny Rizzitelli (Space Moscou 1983)
Sheila Yann Benoist, Olympia 1999 Sheila Yann Benoist Olympia 1999.jpg
Sheila Yann Benoist, Olympia 1999
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Paris-France-Transit Moscou Place rouge 1983

Videos

Renaud, J L Roques, Yann Benoist, Zenith 1986, Paris Renaud , J L Roques , Yann Benoist "Zenith 1986"Paris.jpg
Renaud, J L Roques, Yann Benoist, Zénith 1986, Paris

DVDs

As a leader

As a sideman

Composer

Gilbert Becaud Yann Benoist Studio Musika 1997 Gilbert Becaud Yann Benoist Studio Musika 1997.jpg
Gilbert Becaud Yann Benoist Studio Musika 1997

including  :Gilbert Bécaud B+B(je t'appartiens) Composer Yann Benoist Lyrics Pierre Delanoë / Manny Curtis

Movie TV scores

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Slavin, Gil (2008). "Leroy Merlin" (Pub TV).
  2. ↑ "Alphapage" (Pub TV). October 1990.
  3. ↑ Sharif, Omar (1991). "Tiercé Magazine" (Pub TV).
  4. ↑ "Volkswagen Passat" (Pub Tv). March 1994.
  5. ↑ "Compotes Andros" (Pub Tv). March 2002.
  6. ↑ Mazoyer, Robert (30 November 1994). "Jeanne" (tv movie). IMDb .
  7. ↑ Trotignon, Jean-Luc (1996). "La guerre des poux" (tv movie). IMDb .
  8. ↑ Drucker, Michel. "Champs-Elysées". Archived from the original (tv movie) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
  9. ↑ Matignon, Rubia (2004). "Et si on chantait".
  10. ↑ Marouani, Didier (19 October 2013). "Space 1983". YouTube .
  11. ↑ "BYE BYE FEMME". 1987.[ dead link ]
  12. ↑ "RAINBOW CITY". 1997. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  13. ↑ "DÉCALAGE". 2003.[ dead link ]
  14. ↑ "Surprise". Discogs . 1982.
  15. ↑ "One two three". Discogs . 1988.
  16. ↑ "Les Plus Grands Succes de Sacha Distel". Discogs . 1989.
  17. ↑ "On S'Dit Plus Rien". Discogs . 1992.
  18. ↑ "Da Vinci Vox". May 2006.
  19. ↑ Chateigner, Yvon (2008). "L'Amore l'amore". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-04-29.
  20. ↑ "Jude Box". Guitarist Magazine. No. 232. April 2010. p. 122.
  21. ↑ Gérard, Michel (1979). "Les joyeuses colonies de vacances" (comedy).
  22. ↑ Gérard, Michel (1982). "On s'en fout on s'aime" (comedy).
  23. ↑ Mazoyer, Robert (1994). "Jeanne" (comedy).
  24. ↑ Trotignon, Jean-Luc (1996). "La Guerre Des Poux" (comedy). IMDb .
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