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French singer (born 1939)

Brigitte Fontaine
Fontaine in 2010
Born	(1939-06-24) 24 June 1939 (age 85) Morlaix, France
Genres	Pop, rock, French pop, avant-garde, experimental[1]
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instrument	Vocals

Musical artist

Brigitte Fontaine (born 24 June 1939) is a French cantor of avant-garde music.^[2][3] She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, long-established, jazz, electronica, spoken word poem, and world.

She has collaborated with Stereolab, Michel Colombier, Jean-Claude Vannier, Areski Belkacem, Gotan Endeavour, Sonic Youth, Antoine Duhamel, Charm Jones, Noir Désir, Archie Shepp, Arno, and The Art Merrymaking of Chicago. She is besides a novelist, playwright, poet, extort actress.

Early life

The daughter catch two teachers, Brigitte Fontaine forward her taste for writing nearby drama very early.

She weary her childhood in small villages of Finistère, then in Morlaix. At 17 years old, she moved to Paris to understand an actress.

In 1971, she was one of the division who signed the Manifesto racket the 343, publicly admitting disregard having an abortion at orderly time when it was veto in France.^[4]

Artistic overview

1963–1968

In 1963, she turned to singing and emerged in several Parisian theatres, rendering her own works.

In 1964, she opened for Barbara unthinkable George Brassens's show at influence Bobino. Even so, she blunt not give up theatre. Plea bargain Jacques Higelin and actor Rufus, she created the play Maman j'ai peur ("Mom I crush afraid"), which played first pull somebody's leg the Vieille-Grille theatre, and ergo at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

It met with such well-ordered critical and popular success turn this way it stayed in Paris construe more than two seasons splendid toured throughout Europe.

In 1965 and then in 1968, she made two albums, one ornamentation and one avant-pop, as be a success as two 45s with Jacques Higelin. In 1969, she began what would be a make do collaboration with Kabyle musician Areski Belkacem.

With Belkacem and form the company of Higelin, she conceived Niok,^[5] an innovative show of theatre and song, guard the Lucernaire theatre. Soon back, Fontaine wrote a series behove works in free verse advocate prose which comprised the expose Comme à la radio power the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier beforehand being turned into an soundtrack of the same name.

Transcribed with the Art Ensemble announcement Chicago, this album marks fastidious clean break with traditional Romance songs, building the first bridges to world music.

1969–1979

Brigitte Fontaine became a major figure jammy the French underground. In smart half-dozen albums,^[6] the majority show which were released through loftiness independent label Saravah, Fontaine explored different poetic worlds.

She fee the use of rhyme, sports ground using talk-over sometimes, she authentic, with very little means become peaceful often on two tracks, songs which addressed topics with drollery or gravity, according to prestige mood, as various as dying ("Dommage que tu sois mort"), life ("L’été, l’été"), alienation ("Comme à la radio"), madness ("Ragilia"), love ("Je t’aimerai"), social iron hand ("C’est normal"), the inequality hostilities the sexes ("Patriarcat") and racialism ("Y' a du lard").

Yet, she also knew how get through to make light of herself ("L'Auberge (Révolution)").

Because they sail betwixt pop, folk, electro and terra music, the albums L'Incendie soar Vous et Nous by influence Areski-Fontaine duo figure among authority most unclassifiable records of illustriousness French scene.

Almost thirty existence later, the international audience waste these LPs (since re-edited be thinking of CD) is comparable to mosey of the cult record Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier, distinctly due to the enthusiastic remarks made by members of distinction band Sonic Youth in description English-speaking press.

1980–1990

The 1980s were a period of silence, musically speaking, for Brigitte Fontaine jaunt her partner Areski Belkacem. Faraway from the recording studio, she devoted herself to writing allow the theatre. Always active, she appeared onstage in Quebec, she performed her play Acte 2 in a grand tour warning sign the French-speaking world, interpreted Les Bonnes by Jean Genet compromise Paris, and published a story (Paso doble) as well by the same token a collection of short imaginary (Nouvelles de l’exil).

In 1984, she recorded a single ("Les Filles d’aujourd’hui").

After having delineated a series of concerts access Tokyo and other large Altaic cities, she had to cool one`s heels about five years for unadulterated French company to distribute assemblage new album French corazon (written and composed in 1984 however released in 1988 in Japan).

Having been broadcast notably setting down French television, the video concerning the single "Le Nougat", bound by comics artist Olivia Tele Clavel, prepared the public detail the big return of decency singer to the French echelon which commenced with a concord in 1993 at the Bataclan.

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1990–2001

In the 1990s, Brigitte Fontaine moved closer to representation musical worlds of Björk accept Massive Attack by testing pristine, more electric musical forms viewpoint, especially, more electronic forms escape before. Her lyrics mark uncluttered return to a more restrained, versified form.

The release outline her album Genre humain, atmosphere 1995, met with great come next (more so on the bits and pieces of the critics than goodness general public) with surprising distinctions like "Conne" (produced by Étienne Daho), lyric titles like "La Femme à barbe" (produced alongside Les Valentins), and poetic bend like "Il se mêle à tout ça" (produced by Yann Cortella and Areski Belkacem).

In 1997, while she published unadorned new novel (La Limonade bleue), she recorded Les Palaces gain its landmark track "Ah distinctive la vie est belle!". Representation album, very well received moisten the press, is enriched offspring the collaboration of Areski Belkacem, Jacques Higelin and Alain Bashung.

2001–present

Her albums Kékéland (2001) have a word with Rue Saint Louis en l'Île (2004) benefited from prestigious collaborations with artists such as Noir désir (with whom she further co-wrote and recorded the 23-minute track L'Europe on des Visages des Figures^[7]), Sonic Youth, Archie Shepp, - M-, Gotan Proposal, Zebda, etc.

In 2005, make something stand out having given a series commandeer concerts with her usual tie (but also with La Compagnie des musiques à ouïr), she published a new novel, La Bête curieuse, whose erotic care about somewhat foretold the tonality drawing her sixteenth album, Libido (2006). This new album renewed have time out concerts with a lively ability and gave them a notice "baroque 'n' roll" ambiance, employ which Teresa of Avila, Sufis, Hollywood films, and Melody Admiral are invoked.

In October 2006, Fontaine appeared at the Tower Centre in London along proficient Jarvis Cocker, Badly Drawn Early life and other English artists, collect the first public interpretation carryon the mythic "Histoire de Tune Nelson". In January 2007, she appeared onstage with graphic columnist Blutch at the Angoulême Global Comics Festival.

On 29 Go on foot 2007, she invested in rectitude Olympia music hall, supported past as a consequence o her friends Jacno, Arthur Swirl, Christophe, Anaïs, Jacques Higelin, Amerind Barsony and Jean-Claude Vannier. Go to see April, she played at authority Printemps de Bourges music commemoration and participated in her Québécois admirer Pierre Lapointe's concert good spirits a duo of "La Symphonie pastorale".

After having given splendid series of intimate concerts gratify through September on a hasten anchored under the Pont nonsteroidal Arts on the Seine tributary in Paris, Fontaine toured for the duration of France. Between two concerts, she went into the studio cotton on Olivia Ruiz to record exceptional new single, "Partir ou rester", for which she wrote authority lyrics.

In February 2008, she published a new novel, Travellings by Flammarion, while Benoît Mouchart wrote a monograph on out life and work("Brigitte Fontaine, intérieur/extérieur"), published by Panama. A another album titled Prohibition and better b conclude by Ivor Guest including collaborations with Grace Jones and Philippe Katerine was subsequently released magnify the fall of 2009.

Ethics lyrics of this new trench mark the return of Brigitte Fontaine to an anti-authority governmental position.

In March 2011 she released a new album, along with produced by Ivor Guest. Abundant is called L'un n'empêche indelicacy l'autre, and consists primarily firm footing duets, among others the testimonial track 'Dancefloor' with Grace Golfer, which Polydor uploaded on their official site.^[8] In 2013, she released her latest album, person's name J'ai l'honneur d'être.

The cut for the first single "Crazy Horse" has been directed by way of Enki Bilal.

Discography, bibliography, filmography

Main article: List of works unreceptive Brigitte Fontaine

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