Jean Patrick Capdevielle

Jean-Patrick Capdevielle is a singer-songwriter born French 19 December 1945 in Levallois-Perret.

Biography

Before being a singer, Jean-Patrick Capdevielle was journalist SuperHebdo , Hi pals (the magazine), Mademoiselle Age Tendre , News and art director. In the 1960s, he traveled to the United States and lives in London , where he meets the " Swinging London "(especially in clubs live like the Speakeasy and Blaise's where he met the Beatles , the Rolling Stones , Jimi Hendrix English and other rockers), and he became a close friend of Eric Clapton.

In 1970, he left to settle Balearic Islands , to Ibiza , where he devoted himself to painting and musical composition . In 1978 , he sent a record his first demos. The 45 laps Solitude, described as "reggae in French" and produced by Ketchup Music (label owned by Willie Nelson ), then meets a certain success. He then signs a contract with CBS.

When you're in the desert, huge hit released in 1979, quickly became "the anthem of a generation", but is also seen as a harsh criticism of Giscard. Indeed, the words "All raptors of power led by a sinister clown big plunge toward me on the music of an accordionist poor" seem to refer to the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic in the late 1970s: Raymond Barre ( the "big clown loss") and Valery Giscard d'Estaing , known for practicing the accordion (the accordion poor ").

The first two albums, The Children of Darkness and Angels of the Street ( August 1979 , sacred and platinum album sold 450,000 copies in a short time) and Two (1980), regenerate the French rock landscape and are still classified among the "100 essential records of French rock '(respectively ^27th and ^55th in the standings of the monthly Rolling Stone , February 2010).

Crossroads of American and British influences, Capdevielle built through his first album a singular work, carried by a voice hoarse with class accent, and text with dark and poetic, at once anarchic and visionary. All on inspired rhythms, which removed the guitars and keys sax we walk on the London scene of the 1960 New York clubs of the late 1970's. This unique style will influence the French stage, although to date no one can really claim the crown.

The first album (reissued on CD facsimile in November 2009 by Arts Factory) is followed by a concert tour in spring 1980 with a move to the Olympia. Capdevielle connects two rounds: in early 1981, with a shift in the Palais des Sports in Paris , then in the fall of 1982, again with a move to the Olympia.

Follow, from 1982 to 2007, a series of studio albums, where Jean-Patrick Capdevielle explores different musical styles in a more pop vein, sometimes new wave, but also blues-rock (the excellent Vertigo, 1992, recorded in Nashville).

Meanwhile, in 1,985 - in 1986 , he hosted on FR3 a variety show, The Totems of the Bataclan. In 1986 still, it runs as an actor with Marie-Christine Barrault in a TV movie by Philippe Vallois, The Riddle of the Sands. Then he goes with Paco Rabanne, a production house, "Frames", which produces the particular feature of the Indian director Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! (Camera d'Or ^at the 41st Cannes Film Festival in 1988 ).

It is also the author of the tube Linda William ' : Traces (1988), and the same year he participated in the collective song Lebanon. In 1993, for two years, he moved to the United States, where he studied film at UCLA (California) when he returns, he directed several videos, including that of Renaud Hantman (If you fight, 1995). In 1995 also released the compilation Politically correct signed on the label Sony Music, with four new tracks (being reissued in 2010).

In 1997 , decisively changing musical style, he wrote and directed for the soprano Emma Shapplin Carmine Meo, an album of opera sung in Italian of the ^fourteenth century, which is an international success selling over two million copies and getting no less than 39 gold records and 17 platinum. The music is built on the model of the great Italian composers of the nineteenth ^century, Donizetti Vincenzo Bellini. The texts are mostly written directly into Italian of the fourteenth ^century by Capdevielle . Continuing in this way, Jean-Patrick Capdevielle written and composed in 2001 a neo-romantic opera, always in Italian of the fourteenth ^century: Atylantos ... a legend of Atlantis , with Chiara Zeffirelli (soprano), Elena Cojocaru (soprano), Jade Laura d'Angelis (soprano) and Nikola Todorovitch (tenor). It is still planned to go on stage.

Besides that, returning to his roots and pop-rock, he co-produced the album with Phil Deyrieu Tasty Pop Group Montparnasse (2005), then in 2007 he wrote six of the eleven songs on texts of the 2007 album from David Hallyday.

The year 2006 saw time between his return to the studio where he recorded the album Heretic # 13, released in March 2007 (signed O + Music) with a new single and video (Miss Democracy). This album won praise from the critics: everyone speaks well, but nobody listens. Indeed, it has been boycotted by radio stations.

In January 2008 , John Patrick contends Sweet Air by interpreting the draft Baltimore. Joining Jacques Higelin , Keane and Rik of Sins in support of the hostages in the world ...

Since 2009, while continuing to write scripts for others (Ray Daxman Philippe Deyrieu, etc..) And compose music for himself, Jean-Patrick Capdevielle working on an innovative internet radio, Maradioamoi

More than an Internet radio, it is a tool that allows each listener to create custom Internet radio stations (with music programming, news, magazine issues, etc..), For him or offer. Since March 2010, visitors can test online beta Maradioamoi give their opinion and participate through a forum for the development of this community project, currently under development.

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