Daniel Bangalter (, born 1947), known in his musical career as Daniel Vangarde, is a French songwriter and producer. He co-wrote and produced a number of hit records in the 1970s, including " Aie a Mwana", "

D.I.S.C.O. "D.I.S.C.O." is a song by the French band Ottawan, written by Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger and produced by Daniel Vangarde. Ottawan originally recorded it in French. It was first released in 1979 and reached number two in the UK Singles ...

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Ottawan Ottawan is a French pop music duo, who had the hit singles "D.I.S.C.O." and "Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)" in the early 1980s. Fronted by Patrick Jean-Baptiste and Annette Eltice, they were masterminded through a cooperation between French prod ...

), and "

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" (The

Gibson Brothers The Gibson Brothers are a French musical group, originally from Martinique, who had their greatest success during the disco boom of the late 1970s. Their best known hit singles included "Cuba" and " Que Sera Mi Vida". Career The three brot ...

Biography

In the early 1970s, as Daniel Vangarde, he worked with French singers, husband and wife Ringo (real name Guy Bayle) and

Sheila Sheila (alternatively spelled Shelagh and Sheelagh) is a common feminine given name, derived from the Irish name ''Síle'', which is believed to be a Gaelic form of the Latin name Caelia, the feminine form of the Roman clan name Caelius, mean ...

(later known as

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), as well as releasing some records under his own name in France. On many of these and later records he worked with fellow writer and producer Jean Kluger. In 1971 Vangarde and Kluger released the cult LP ''Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki'' as the Yamasuki Singers, a pseudo-Japanese concept album of pop songs, described on the sleeve of its CD reissue as ''"a fuzzed-out-educational-multi-cultural psych-rock-opera.... proto-psychedelic hip-hop with overweight drum beats and basslines"''. The song "Aieaoa" on the album was later recorded, as " Aie a Mwana", first by Black Blood and then by

Bananarama Bananarama are an English pop duo from London, formed as a trio in 1980 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward. Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when the trio became a duo. The ...

, becoming the first UK hit for the latter group. Vangarde's main international successes came later in the 1970s, as writer and producer with

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's "Cuba". Using the pseudonym Who's Who, he recorded the album ''Who's Who'' in 1979. He also worked extensively with the Antillean group La Compagnie Créole, popular in France in the 1980s. Vangarde is

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. Vangarde has campaigned to ensure that descendants of Jewish artists in France whose rights were taken from them in the Second World War received financial compensation. Since the 1990s, he has lived in Caraíva,

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest ...

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, where he founded a community charity, Caraívaviva. In May 2013, the London magazine '' Dazed & Confused'' featured an hour-long mix of funk, disco and electro produced by Vangarde.Yin-Wong, Flora
The Hits of Daniel Bangalter
'' Dazed & Confused'', May 2013. Vangarde is the father of

Thomas Bangalter Thomas Bangalter (; born 3 January 1975) is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and composer. Son of French music composer and artist Daniel Vangarde. He is best known as one half of the former French house music duo Daft ...

, who is best known as a member of the

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

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Daft Punk Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Widely regarded as one of the most influential acts in dance music history, they achieved popularity in the late 1990s as p ...

. He is credited with aiding the duo in their early musical career.Alan Di Perna, "We Are The Robots" ''Pulse!'', April 2001, pp. 65–69.

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Bide-et-Musiques discography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vangarde, Daniel 1947 births Living people French dance musicians French electronic musicians 20th-century French Jews French songwriters Male songwriters French record producers French emigrants to Brazil