Brigitte Fontaine

Brigitte Fontaine (* June 24, 1939 in Morlaix ) is a French singer, actress and writer. It is an extremely versatile musician and has worked in the course of their career in such diverse genres as chanson, rock, jazz, folk, electronica and world music. She has cooperated with many famous musicians of these genres, including Areski Belkacem, Jacques Higelin, Stereolab, Michel Colombier, Jean -Claude Vannier, the Gotan Project, Sonic Youth, Antoine Duhamel, Grace Jones, Noir Désir, Archie Shepp and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In addition, she has published several novels, poems and plays.

Biography

Fontaine is the daughter of a teacher couple and spent her childhood in the small town of Morlaix in Brittany 's Finistere. As a seventeen year old, she moved to Paris to become an actress. They quickly gained a reputation in the Parisian theater scene and entered, for example, in the Theatre de la Huchette Eugène Ionesco in Bare singer on. At the same time she began to work as a singer, and performed with his own songs on the opening act known cabaret singer, including Barbara and George Brassens. Wrote with Jacques Higelin and actor Rufus and played it the successful Maman j'ai peur play (ou Est - ce que les veaux font of Manières? ), Which experienced two seasons in Paris.

1965 and 1968 she published, together with Jacques Higelin two albums, on which she sang songs by Boris Vian. In 1969 his continuing collaboration with the musicians kabylischstämmigen Areski Belkacem (usually only Areski called ). Designed with the Areski and Higelin and she played the musical theater revue NIOK at the Petit Théâtre du Lucernaire. Pieces from the following Revue Comme à la radio, which were based on poems and lyrical prose of Fontaine, were included in the eponymous album, which was recorded with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Areski and is considered a bridge between chanson and jazz. The song contained on this album " Lettre à monsieur le chef de gare de La Tour de Carol " was a small radio hit - the LP was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix du disque de la Chanson Française Académie Charles Cros and is still one of the popular recordings Fontaines.

In the following years they experimented together with Areski in different musical styles such as song, jazz and African music as well as theatrical and poetic texts. Most of their LPs released on the small independent label Saravah and found at the time of its publication, only a small audience, the musical underground in France in the 1960s and 1970s but are now counted among the most important publications.

In the eighties it was musically quiet around Fontaine and Areski. The only record releases in this period were the single Les Filles d' aujourd'hui of 1984 and the French Corazon LP, which came in 1988 on the market. Fontaine focused in this period mainly due to the theater, also published novels and short stories. In 1982, she played with Areski to his writing of her piece L' inconciliabule ou Acte II ( Director: Areski Belkacem ), and 1985 brought with it the Theaterspektakel Made out in France at the Théâtre de Paris. Only in 1993 she succeeded with the single Le nougat a little musical comeback. It benefited mainly from the fact that a younger generation of musicians took notice of her work and she returned with New Wave and electronica into contact. This was shown on the published 1995 Album Genre Humain, which among other things was co-produced by Étienne Daho, and for which they du disque de la Chanson Française and the Grand Prix National de la Chanson received her second Grand Prix.

In the Anglo-Saxon her name was now known - thanks mainly to the reference prominent alternative bands like Sonic Youth, with whom she recorded two songs from her album Kékéland ( 2001). Kékéland was as well as the subsequent album Rue Saint Louis en l' île (2004) gold plated and marked the commercial breakthrough Fontaines. Since then, she has completed numerous successful concerts and tours and participated in various music and theater projects. In October 2006, Fontaine was together with Jarvis Cocker, Badly Drawn Boy and other artists to create an ensemble that brought a theater version of Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody concept album Nelson on stage at London's Barbican Centre.

Their album Prohibition ( 2009) contain cooperations among others with Grace Jones and Philippe Katerine, and also on L' un l' autre pas n'empêche (2011), she worked with numerous other musicians (including Arno, Areski Belkacem, Alain Souchon, Christophe Bertrand Cantat, Richard Galliano, Jacques Higelin, Grace Jones and Emmanuelle Seigner ).

Discography

Bibliography

  • Chroniques du bonheur, 1975
  • Madelon: Alchemy et prêt -à -porter, 1979
  • L' Inconciliabule, 1980
  • Paso doble, 1985
  • Nouvelles de l' exil, 1988
  • Genre humain, 1996
  • La Limonade bleue, 1997
  • La Bête Curieuse, 2005
  • Attends -moi sous l' obélisque, 2006
  • Travellings, 2008
  • Rien de suivi Colère noire, 2009
  • Contes de chats ( with Sempé ), 2009

Filmography

  • Les encerclés ( Director: Christian Gion ), 1967
  • À mort la mort! ( Directed by: Romain Goupil ), 1999
  • Absolument fabuleux (directed by Gabriel Aghion ), 2001
  • Traitement de substitution n ° 4 ( Director: Christian Chapiron ), 2002
  • Le grand soir (R: Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine ), 2012
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