Françoiz Breut
Françoiz Breut ( born December 10, 1969 in Cherbourg, France), for a time also under the name Françoiz Brrr known, is a French singer and illustrator, the Nouvelle Scène Française is counted for.
Biography
Françoiz Breut went to Cherbourg and Caen to school and lived in Dunkirk and Nantes. There she met at the beginning of the nineties, Dominique A know, together they made with their first performances and recordings as a singer.
Their first album Françoiz Breut ( 1997) minimalist character. It was composed and produced mostly by Dominique; It had some success outside France. Bands like The Go- Betweens, Tindersticks, Calexico and The Walkabouts expressed their admiration for Breuts distinctive brittle but versatile rich voice. The Walkabouts took a version of Everyone kisses a Stranger to, Calexico tried to Ma Colère, and Howe Gelb ( Giant Sand ) devoted to the singer a song - Letter to Françoise.
In the fall of 2000, the second album Vingt à trente mille jours out to the under other Dominique A, Jérôme Minière, Katerine Philippe Poirier ( Kat Onoma ), Yann Tiersen, Pierre Bondu, Gaëtan Chataigner ( The Little Rabbits ) and Sacha Toorop ( Zop Hopop ) contributed. The album's success with the critics and the audience made Breut known outside of the independent scene.
In 2003, Calexico on a version of Si tu disais, which is included on the special edition of Feast Of Wire. In August 2005, she accompanied Calexico on their Germany Tour ( Concert Arena Berlin). The DVD World Drifts In, a recording of Calexico concert at the Barbican, London ( 2004), she sings along with Calexico Ballad Of Cable Hogue and Si tu disais.
Their third album Une season volée (published in March 2005) she took in Brussels, their current living place, on. The compositions among others originate Dominique A, Jérôme Minière, Philippe Poirier and the band Herman Dune. By Frenchpop sampler Le Pop 3 (2005) Françoiz Breut was also known in Germany; Une season volée appeared here at the label Le Pop music. In the years 2008 and 2009 Françoiz Breut met several times in Germany on - partly in cooperation with the label Le Pop and in a double with other artists of the current Nouvelle chanson scene such as Marianne Dissard.
In addition to her career as a singer Breut works as an illustrator of children's books.