Benoît Dorémus (born 20 May 1980, in Besançon ) is a French singer-songwriter. He is the fourth of five children and grew up in France.
Life
Dorémus wrote his first pieces of poetry before the age of ten. He also began to learn to play the guitar.
He spent his first years between
Metz
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to finally settle down in Paris at 21, after passing a cinematographic Performing Arts bachelor's degree in 2001, and finishing his first novel.
He had his first concerts in 2003 within the very close Parisian fields. His songs, mostly influenced by
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or the famous French singer-songwriter
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, very popular since the '70s, often describe his bipolarity between music and literature,
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Life and career
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being his favourite author concerning the latest. The texts regularly deal with a recurring character called "Benito" or "Adesias Benito", a hardly hidden allegory for himself.
His first album, ''Pas en parler'' (French for ''"
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Not talk about it"''), came to be known by the professionals, and among them,
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in 2005, thanks to the singer Sarclo, who introduced him to him. Renaud enjoyed it and decided to produce it (label EMI). He also did a personal cover of ''Rien à te mettre'' (French for ''Nothing to wear'') in his 2006 album ''Rouge sang''.
In October 2007, his last album ''Jeunesse se passe'' (French for ''The Youth is passing by'', label Ceci-Celà, EMI Group) received good reviews, especially from the daily newspaper ''Libération''.
He also recently appeared on the 15-year-old music TV-Show Taratata
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Discography
Studio albums
* 2004
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Events January
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: '' Pas en Parler''
# ''J'apprends le métier''
# ''Conditionnel''
# ''Rien à te mettre''
# ''Ca ne me manquait pas''
# ''J'écris faux, je chante de la main gauche''
# ''Les bulles''
# ''17 ans''
# ''Ce que ça fait de la revoir''
# ''Retour à l'envoyeur''
# ''Beaupadre''
# ''Un poison''
# ''Pas en parler''
# ''Accordéon pour cinq d'entre elles''
# ''Je viens du cirque''
* 2007
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Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
: ''Jeunesse se passe Jeunesse is the French word for ''Youth'' and may refer to:
* Youth (1934 film)
* The Young One (2016 film)
* Montagne Jeunesse
* Jeunesse Populaire Française
* Gallimard Jeunesse
* Jeunesse Esch
* Europe-Jeunesse
* Jeunesses Patriotes
* Jeunesse ...
''
# ''J'écris faux, je chante de la main gauche''
# ''Je m'en rappelle pas''
# ''J'apprends le métier(acte 1)''
# ''Rien à te mettre''
# ''L'enfer (acte 2)''
# ''17 ans''
# ''Pas à me plaindre''
# ''Deux dans mon égotrip(acte 3)''
# ''Beaupadre''
# ''Un poison''
# ''Un arracheur de sacs''
# ''Les bulles''
# ''Paris''
References
External links
*
Benoît Dorémus
on Myspace.com
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1980 births
Living people
French male singer-songwriters
French singer-songwriters
Musicians from Besançon
21st-century French singers