Albin de la Simone au jardin botanique de Montréal

Albin de la Simone (born in

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, Picardy, France on 14 December 1970) is a French singer-songwriter. He has released five albums since 2003, being nominated to the 2018

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in the ''Best Song Album (Meilleur album de chansons)'' category and in 2014 in the ''Best Live Newcomers (Révélation scène)'' category. He has been working in music since the mid-1990s as a keyboardist, bassist, arranger, and director for a large number of artists, including

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, Keren Ann,

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, and

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, among others (complete discography below). As an artist, his musical works are exhibited at

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, and many other galleries and festivals. He is also associated with the

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Career

Startings

After studying art at the

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in Tournai (Belgium) and arrangement and orchestration at the (CIM) in Paris, Albin L'Eleu de la Simone started his career as composer and jazz pianist (his father being a New Orleans Jazz clarinetist) as a member of the band "The Barbecues." In 1995, he and his quintet were finalists in . Between 1995 and 2000, he toured in Africa with

and

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, and he began to feature on other French singers' tracks. Parallelly, de la Simone met the new singers of his generation (

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...) and found his calling. He wrote his first songs towards the end of the 1990s.

2003–2004: First Album

In 2003, de la Simone performed his first concerts as singer in Japan, opening for Mathieu Boogaerts. In September, he released ''Albin de la Simone,'' his first album, on the label

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, co-directed with Renaud Letang. Of the album, "Elle aime''"'', sung as a duet with Feist, and "Patricia," with Alain Souchon, became hits. He composed in part the soundtrack of the film ''

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'', directed by

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Discography

Albums

Decorations

* Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2015)

References

External links

Official website
(French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Simone, Albin de la 1979 births Living people French singer-songwriters People from Amiens Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 21st-century French singers