Yé-yé

Yéyé is a genre of French and Portuguese-speaking pop music of the 1960s.

France

The name derives from the English exclamation Yeah, who represented the English Beat music, such as the Beatles song She Loves You, a popular Füllselwort. The Yéyé be associated more broadly pop singers of different styles, including rockers such as Johnny Hallyday, besides also Richard Anthony, Frank Alamo and Jacques Dutronc.

In a narrower sense are called les yéyés interpreters that leant on sound American girl groups. Among the stars of the Yéyé include in particular Françoise Hardy, France Gall, Sheila, Les Surfs and Sylvie Vartan. The best known Yéyé - composer of the time, it was Serge Gainsbourg, who, poupée de son wrote, among others, France Gall's Poupée de cire; with this song Gall won the Euro Vision Song Contest 1965. During the late 1960s and the actresses Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin achieved with compositions Gainsbourg's the charts.

Portugal

In Portugal, the term evolved to refer to Anglo -Saxon popular music of the teenagers of the 1960s, especially after the worldwide success of the Beatles song She Loves You and his style- Yeah, yeah, yeah- chorus part.

In Portugal, the term yeye today synonymous with rock ' n ' roll in the broad sense and the advent of these teenage popular music in the country used in 1955. In Portugal joined the music initially met with skepticism in the mainstream music business, but only moderately. So published about the popular fado singer and actress Hermínia Silva in Portugal an EP in which they satirized the music direction. Bands like Quinteto Académico, Os Sheiks or Conjunto Académico João Paulo finally established the style in Portugal after the beginning mostly single Yé - Yé - pieces had already appeared well-known singer, as António Calvário. The first record of Yeye in Portugal today is the 1960 released EP Os Caloiros because Canção (English about: The heat of the song ) by Daniel Bacelar and his band Os Conchas.

Brazil

In Brazil, Yé - yé was named IE -IE -IE the movement of the Jovem Guarda, emerged from the Roberto Carlos as the most famous singers. Technically IE -IE -IE is defined primarily through the exchange of traditional instruments such as the violin and piano by electric guitar and electric bass. Young musicians of the country developed here, the Anglo-Saxon teenage music among Brazilian point of view further, and established it as the use of electrically amplified guitar also in the general public. The following Tropicalia movement built on it to continue.