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Génération Goldman
''Génération Goldman'' is a compilation/tribute album series containing interpretations of the songs of popular French singer and songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. It is released on My Major Company (France) noting that Michael Goldman, son of the artist is a co-founder of the label. Goldman has not released a studio album since 2001. The original album ''Génération Goldman'' was released on 19 November 2012 on My Major Company France and M 6 Music label as a tribute to Goldman. A follow-up second volume was released on 26 August 2013 entitled ''Génération Goldman Volume 2''. Due to the popularity of the albums, in August 2014, the two volumes were re-released under one cover as ''Génération Goldman Vol. 1 and Vol. 2'' ''Génération Goldman'' Songs The album contains 14 tracks performed by 20 artists with " Envole-moi" performed by M. Pokora and Tal becoming the first single from the greatly anticipated album. On 19 November 2012, the day of the album's release, the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop (music)
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Je Te Donne (song)
"Je te donne" is a bilingual pop song, recorded in English and French. It was performed by Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones and was released as a single in late 1985. It reached number-one for eight weeks on the French Singles Chart, becoming one of the best-selling singles of the 1980s in France. The song has been covered by Worlds Apart in 1996 and Ivyrise in 2013 and achieved success in many countries where it charted. Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones version Track listings ; 7" single # "Je te donne" — 4:25 # "Confidentiel" by Jean-Jacques Goldman — 2:36 Charts Worlds Apart version In 1996, the multi-national boy band World Apart released a successful cover reaching number 3 in France. It was also a charting hit in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Sweden. Track listings ; CD single # "Je te donne" (radio version) — 3:43 # "Let the Sun Shine Down on You" — 3:47 ; CD maxi # "Je te donne" (radio version) — 3:43 # "Let the Sun Shine Down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Albums Chart
The Swiss Hitparade () is Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland. The Swiss charts include: * Singles Top 75 (released since 1968) * Singles Top 100 * Albums Top 100 (released since late 1983) * Compilations Top 25 * Airplay Top 30 Since 2010, Hitparade's compiler Media Control has also set up ''Les charts'', a record chart of the highest-selling singles and albums in Romandie, the Francophone The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus in 1880 and became important a ... region of Switzerland: * Romandie Singles Top 20 (discontinued) * Romandie Albums Top 50 The charts are updated weekly on Sundays, and are posted publicly on the preceding Wednesday mornings. See also * List of number-one singles in Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultratop 40
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium. Ultratop is a non-profit organization, created in 1995 on the initiative of the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA), the Belgian member organization of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Two parallel sets of charts are concurrently produced and published; one is on behalf of Belgium's mainly Dutch-speaking Flanders region, and the other catering to the nation's mainly French-speaking region of Wallonia. Ultratop charts The music charts produced by Ultratop organization are separated along regional-language boundaries, an unusual division that is justified by the cultural differences in Belgium. So it is that the mainly Dutch-speaking Flanders region has one set of charts of record activity there, while the mainly French-speaking Wallonia region has another set to measure popularity in those provinces. The charts are broadcast on several Belgian radio stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SNEP
SNEP (, in English National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry. Originally known under the acronym SNICOP, the organisation was established in 1922 and has 48 member companies. SNEP's responsibilities include collecting and distributing royalty payments for broadcast and performance, preventing copyright infringement of its members' works (including music piracy), and sales certification of silver, gold, platinum and diamond records and videos. SNEP also compiles weekly official charts of France's top-selling music, including singles and albums. Official charts History The first attempt at a French national chart of best-selling records originated from a request by the American music industry magazine '' Billboard''. The magazine's French correspondent, Eddie Adamis, compiled a top 10 list of the country's preferred format, the extended play (EP), for ''Billboard''s "Hits of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma (singer)
Irma Pany (born 15 July 1988), better known as Irma (), is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter living in France. Early life and education She was born in Douala in a family with a scientific background. Her father is a biologist and her mother is a pharmacist. As a child Irma was performing at Mass (liturgy), masses too. At age 15, she went to a high school in Paris, France, to improve her school education. In 2008, Irma entered ESCP Europe (Top French Business School) and graduated in the Master in Management in 2012. Career image:Irma Pany au Festival des Vieilles Charrues 2012.jpg, left, Irma at a festival in 2012 By 2007, she had posted her first videos on YouTube. Those included her own compositions, including "Letter to the Lord" and a piano piece "Somehow", as well as cover versions of songs including "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5, "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat, and "New Soul" by Yael Naim. She released several home-made videos with acoustic covers on YouTube in collabora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaho
Zahera Darabid ( ; born May 10, 1980), known by her stage name Zaho (), is an Algerian-Canadian R&B singer. Biography Zahera Darabid was born on May 10, 1980, in Bab Ezzouar, a suburb of the Algerian capital Algiers. At the age of 18, she and her family moved to Montréal, Canada. Her father is an executive and her mother a mathematics professor. She has a brother and sister. In December 1991, the civil war wreaked havoc in Algeria, and she was only 11 years old at the time. Cousins, neighbors, her swimming teacher, the manager of the café on her street, all disappeared. Her father, Mohamed, and her mother, Fadela, were even nearly killed in a market bombing she suffers from the state of emergency in the country and the generalized curfew. She longed for another life with her loved ones, far from war-torn Algeria. As a teenager, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut or a pilot, but soon realized that this was impossible in a country in the midst of civil war. So she began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumè
Dominique Mattei (born in 1981 in Marseille, France) better known by the stage name Dumè is a French singer, composer and actor. Biography As an adolescent, he studied composing, singing and playing guitar at the Marseilles conservatory. He opened for concerts by Pascal Obispo and signed as a composer for Atletico music. He wrote songs for Johnny Hallyday, Faudel, Natasha Saint-Pier, Louisy Joseph amongst others and partnered with Lionel Florence writing for others. In November 2009, Dominique Mattei announced that he was taking the name Dumè and was preparing his first album through financing from My Major Company. In 2012, Dumè was also featured in '' Génération Goldman'' tribute project to Jean-Jaques Goldman singing ''Il suffira d'un signe'' alongside Merwan Rim, Amaury Vassili and Baptiste Giabiconi. In 2013, he is taking part in the French musical adaptation of Robin hood titled '' Robin des Bois'' playing the role of Vaisey, the Sheriff of Nottingham. He also p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merwan Rim
Merwan Rim (born 13 July 1977 in Sarcelles, France) is a French actor and singer-songwriter. Biography At the age of 17, Merwan Rim started to learn and instruments as an autodidact. Realizing his gift in musical arts, Merwan decided to become a full-time musician. This decision led him into quitting Paris 13 University where he attended communication studies to enroll in Alice Dona Studios, a performing arts school for future professionals in September 2000. Nine months later, Merwan was cast as ''Ramses'' in the musical '' Les Dix Commandements''. He first was Pow-Wow member Ahmed Mouici's alternate before he took over the role on one year later. In 2004, Merwan enrolled in Elie Chouraqui and Maxime Le Forestier's musical entitled ''Spartacus'' in which he was cast as ''Davids stand-in but he never had the occasion to portray the role. Nevertheless, Merwan avoided a show's being cancelled at the last minute by replacing Pow-Wow member Alain Chennevière (who portrayed ''Crassu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Je Marche Seul
"Je marche seul" ("I Walk Alone") is the name of a 1985 song recorded by the French singer and songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. It was released in June 1985 as the first single from his album '' Non homologué'', as the tenth track. Though the song failed to reach number one on the French Singles Chart, it remains one of Goldman's biggest hit singles as well as one of his more popular songs live. Lyrics and music The upbeat song begins with a long musical introduction highlighted by a sax solo. When the song was released as a single, Goldman explained in various interviews that the it was very hard to compose. The lyrics describe someone walking alone along a road, lost in thought, able to forget everything for the moment and the pleasure of being anonymous while observing the world. Goldman has said that "Je marche seul" is a bright song because "the loneliness is not a punishment". The music video, produced by Bernard Schmitt in Brussels, began to be aired on television in May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amandine Bourgeois
Amandine Bourgeois (; born 12 June 1979, in Angoulême, Charente) is a French singer. She was the winner of the sixth edition of the French version of the ''Pop Idol'' series ''Nouvelle Star'' in 2008. On 26 July 2014, Bourgeois participated in the television game show Fort Boyard. Eurovision Song Contest 2013 ''Le Parisien'' announced on 22 January 2013, that Bourgeois would France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, with the song "L'enfer et moi", coming 23rd in the final. Discography Albums Singles As lead artist As featured artist Other charted songs References 1979 births Living people People from Angoulême Nouvelle Star winners Articles containing video clips 21st-century French singers 21st-century French women singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants {{France-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Moire
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''. 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 le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
