Artist: Michel Delpech
Genre(s):
Pop
Folk
Other
Discography:
Michel Delpech &
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Ce Lundi-La Au Bataclan
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Les Annees Barclay
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Toutes les Chansons
Year:
Tracks: 29
The Best Of
Year:
Tracks: 16
Ses plus grands succes
Year:
Tracks: 29
Les Grandes Chansons
Year:
Tracks: 22
Michel Delpech's self-examining songs, sensible arrangements, and bored still archly advanced vocals virtually defined the French pop accent during the seventies. Born January 26, 1946, in the Paris suburban area of Courbevoie, Jean-Michel Delpech drew his earlier influence from traditional French chansons like Charles Aznavour and Gilbert Bécaud. As a teenager, he formed a little orchestra with a mathematical group of schoolmates, and at 17 signed with the Vogue label to cut his debut solo single, "Anatole." In 1964 Delpech began writing with composer Roland Vincent, inaugurating the virtually significant creative collaboration of his career. Later that same year, he asterisked in the musical clowning Copains-Clopants, which ran in Paris for half a dozen months ahead mounting a national spell. Delpech's signature identification number, "Chez Laurette," chop-chop emerged as an consultation favourite. In 1965 he issued the vocal as a single, and it proved his point of launching into the French pop charts, speedily followed by the strike "Inventaire 66." After exiting Copains-clopants, Delpech toured in support of Leny Escudero before opening for Jacques Brel during the French pop giant's series of farewell concerts at Paris' renowned L'Olympia. In 1967, he signed with showman Johnny Stark, wHO installed Delpech as the opener on a Mireille Mathieu circuit that spanned from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R. Months afterward Delpech vaulted to superstardom, claiming the Grand Prix du Disque and the Académie Charles-Cros Prize for the 1968 run into "Il y a diethylstilbesterol Jours où on Ferait Mieux de Rester au Lit."Subsequent smashes including 1969's "Wight Is Wight" (a jubilation of the Isle of Wight rock fete) and "Paul Chantait Yesterday" (a testimonial to the Beatles) followed, and in 1971 Delpech and Vincent teamed for the signature hit of the singer's vocation, the graeco-Roman "Pour un Flirt." Delpech opened 1972 with a three-week headlining stint at L'Olympia, and patch he continued his collaboration with Vincent, he likewise partnered with writers including Jean-Michel Rivat, Pierre Papadiamandis, and Michel Pelay, reeling off a train of blockbusters including "Les Divorcés," "Que Marianne Était Jolie," "Le Chasseur," and "Quand J'étais Chanteur." However, in 1975 Delpech divorced his married woman, Chantal, and patch the subsequent "Le Loir-et-Cher" proven some other enormous hit, he shortly entered a period of vivid clinical depression that in effect halt his creative momentum. After seeking recourse in Buddhism, he afterward off to Catholicism, and even explored his search for personal and spiritual substance in a deeply introverted memoir, L'Homme Qui Avait Bâti Sa Vie Sur le Sable. Delpech recorded and performed seldom during this period, and afterward issue the 1977 LP 5000 km he virtually disappeared from the French pop landscape. Finally, he resurfaced in 1983 with the single "Animaux, Animaux," that same year dropping in honey with cougar Geneviève Garnier-Fabre, wHO became his married woman two years later. Their romance seemed to reignite Delpech's passion for devising music, and in 1985 he issued Loin d'Ici, his number one new LP in shut to a x. While Delpech ne'er recaptured the commercial regard he enjoyed during the better portion of the 1970s, he maintained a devoted audience and never rested on past times honour. For 1989's J'étais un Ange, he teamed with composer Dider Barbelivien, and terzetto age later reunited with Vincent for Les Voix du Brésil, which updated their signature sound with influences careworn from across the breadth of reality euphony. Delpech renowned the record's handout with a string of dates at L'Olympia, his number one appearances at the legendary locus in 2 decades. He even so retreated from acting for five long time, eventually reversive in mid-1997 with a self-titled LP that summarized his mind-set on life and art as he entered his 1950s. Despite its autumnal themes, the record's modern-day pop sensibilities base favour with critics and audiences likewise, and in September he headlined a seven-day outride at the Casino de Paris. Delpech's render to the calcium light again proven brief, however, and he worn-out the remainder of the decade collaborating with married woman Geneviève on a novel, De Cendres et de Braises, published in 2000. Late that same year he issued the retrospective J'étais un Ange, celebrating its release with a brief French circuit highlighted by node appearances by the likes of Alain Chamfort, Marc Lavoine, and Claude Nougaro. Finally, in 2004 Delpech released the roots music-inspired Comme Vous, his number one new LP in heptad age. Two eld afterward, he launched &, a collection of perennial fan favorites re-recorded as duets alongside Alain Souchon, Bénabar, and others.
