Etienne Daho

Etienne Daho is a Auteur-compositeur-interprète, producing Acteur and French, born the January 14th 1956 with Oran (Algérie). Etienne Daho is resulting from the vagueness of the rock'n'roll of Rennes of the whole beginning of the Années 1980. In ten albums studio of pop Frenchwoman, all at least certified gold or platinum, and multiple eclectic collaborations, this impassioned music imposed a style single, as well vocal as musical, immediately identifiable and very influential. Its descendants form as well part of the French touch as of the New French song. Its course, strewn at the same time with large popular successes and daring and successful artistic attempts, made of him an example be followed.

Career

Childhood and adolescence

Etienne Daho lived until the 8 years age in Oran (Algeria). Its daily newspaper is divided between the unconcern of the life at the seaside and the horror of the Guerre of Algeria. Given up by his father, it spends long months under the artillery shootings before regaining the France in September 1964. It passes its childhood and its adolescence with his mother and her two sisters to Rennes where it makes its schooling. Under the musical influence of his older sisters, he then discovers the English Pop and the artists of the Motown. The music becomes truly its passion thanks to the purchase of two discs: The Velvet Underground And Nico (of which the small pocket the intrigue) and the first album of Pink Floyd ( The Piper At the Gates off Dawn ), which will enable him to discover Syd Barrett. It is interested then strongly in the music and in particular in the Rock. Its musical tastes go from Serge Gainsbourg to the Velvet Underground, of the Beach Boys to Syd Barrett. It makes English studies and very frequently remains with London and Manchester, there to work and appease its passion of the music. It discovers there the scene Punk in 1976 and starts to write songs.

Beginnings

Whereas it is student, Etienne Daho belonged to the entourage of Herve Bordier (the future creator of the Transmusicales of Rennes), which at the time organizes concerts or exposures. It benefits from it to create an association in order to organize a concert of the Stinky Toys for its birthday. The concert enables him to meet Elli Medeiros and Jacno and a solid friendship will be tied between them. Encouraged by his friends of the groups Marquis de Sade and Stinky Toys, it makes its beginnings on scene with the Transmusicales of Rennes with the group Between two stripped wire of the dynamo in 1979, then in solo in December 1980. It records a model of 5 titles with the assistance of Franck Darcel and the musicians of the group Marquis de Sade and step the recording companies. It is then located by the recording company Virgin and becomes the first French signature of the label.

The recording of its first album, Mythomaniac (1981), takes place in Paris with the musicians of Marquis de Sade and Jacno with the production. The album obtains good criticisms in the specialized press, but obtains only one confidential success (it will be gold disc later fifteen years). Etienne Daho then records new individual a the Big sleep , whose success enables him to record a second album. This title will be remixé in 2007 by Sweetlight and will remake to vibrate the dance floors European.

Produced by Franck Darcel, Notte, the notte leaves in March 1984. Illustrated by a portrait of Pierre & Gilles become mythical, the album is certified disc of platinum. Two individual will be extracted: To leave this evening and especially Weekend to Rome which will be its first large hit of pop electronics/new wave. It makes a first Olympia with closed counters on April 18th, 1985 and the Enfants of the rock'n'roll devote a portrait to him where it sings in duet with Francoise Hardy, with which it binds friendship. One decrees the Bus to him Steel, which rewards the artist rock'n'roll for the year 1985. Extremely of success Etienne Daho meets his team and records the new titles of individual and EP Tombé for France in 1985. The title is again a success (#13 with the Top 50 and 19 weeks classified) and the clip is carried out by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

The third album, Pop Satori (1986), is recorded in London with the group Torch Song (of which the leader William Orbit, will be later the realizer artistic inter alia Madonna) and Co-carried out by Daho and Arnold Turboust. Unfortunately the recording is conflict, William Orbit passing only seldom the studio, and sending, to replace it, to its manager. The only member of the group which will take part in the artistic realization will be Rico Conning. Etienne and Arnold Turboust decide to return to Paris to finish the recordings. Criticisms are eulogistic and the album, certified disc of platinum, devotes it like the main actor of the French pop scene. The individual ones Shoulders tattoo (clip produced by Philippe Gautier) and Duel with the sun (begun again by Luz Casal in 2004 and large success in Spain), very quickly become standards. The “dahomania” gains France. The press the encense and speaks about “Daho generation”. Etienne Daho connects the projects: participation in films of Olivier Assayas and Virginia Thevenet (see catalog of films), production of artists for his label…

Success

It confirms its success with the album For our Martian lives (1988), platinum album, whose small pocket is signed Guy Peellaert. For the first time, the album leaves simultaneously in eight country. It is recorded in London and openly inspired by the English pop noisy productions like those of the English group The Jesus and Mary Chain. individual S " Blue like toi" and " Hours hindoues" install its mark definitively. The triumphal round (the Tour Martian ) which makes stopover with the Marquee of London, is immortalisée in the album Live ED and the film Tant worse for Idaho , where he sings in duet with Chris Isaak. Arthur Baker and Working Week invites it in their albums (collaboration with Baker is Paris, direction prohibited in 1989). It produces the discs of Daniel Darc, Bill Pritchard and Lio.

Paris elsewhere is recorded with New York during the summer 1991. Carlos Alomar (guitarist of David Bowie), initially had a presentiment of for coproduire the album, will be thanked at the end of a few days. It is finally with Edith Fambuena (of Valentins) that Etienne will produce the album. Illustrated by Nick Knight, Paris elsewhere leaves in December 1991. Not less than five individual will be extracted from it (" Saudade" , " Attractions désastre" (remixé by PM Dawn), " Like a igloo" (remixé by Low Boom and Dimitri From Paris), " A man with the mer" and " The voyages immobiles" , clip produced by Michel Gondry). The sales reach them: 600000 specimens and the success of the album leads it to turn in 14 country. An album will be recorded and the filmed concert, at the time of its passage to the Olympia December 13rd and 14th, Daholympia (gold double album).

In 1992, it assembles the project Urgence (compilation of 27 French artists) to help research against the AIDS. The profits (12 franc million) will be given in clean hands by Etienne to the Professor Montagné of the Institute Pasteur. He interprets there a song of Brigitte Fontaine: " It's a pity that you would be mort". This implication is worth a malevolent rumor of disease to him, then of died of the AIDS.

In 1993, it is number one of the sales of 45 French turns (and #4 with Signal 50) with a resumption of Edith Piaf: My horse-gear with me, recorded originally for compilation Sparrow-Frehel, my grandmother is rockeuse a . For the anecdote, in spite of its enormous notoriety, it is the first time that in addition to ten years of career, one of its titles enters the Signal 10 French. In 1995, it produces four titles of Mankind , the new album of Brigitte Fontaine whom it makes sign at Virgin, the album of Jacno " produces; Forgery témoin" , sings with Jacques Dutronc " All the tastes are in my nature" (the clip will be interdict on the chains of TV, because considered provocant). It settles in London to compose its new album.

“Resurrection”

In 1995, it records Reserection (ironic title compared to the rumor), a bracket with the English group Saint Etienne, short incursion trip-hop of the more avant-gardists. Brigitte Fontaine Co-writing with him the text of Jungle Pulsates , while Etienne adapts two titles of Etienne Saint, Filthy and Paper : the latter make to a hit in England with He' S one the Phone (n°11 with Signal 40), the remix of their adaptation of the Week-end in Rome of 1984, initially called Accident . This individual will be “individual off the week” in the Melody Maker.

He writes then the album Éden certified album of gold and carried out in London with Arnold Turboust, encasing the step with the French touch then stammering with French artists such as Daft Punk, Air… who will impress the whole world. For Daho which has worked with Zdar for eight years, it is the occasion to create the successor of Pop Satori . One finds there inter alia Elli Medeiros, The Comateens, The Swingle Singers and especially Astrud Gilberto for a very successful duet, the Edges of the Seine . Diverting at its exit, this album mixed by Mark Stent is regarded today as one of its best recordings, it alternates “traditional” titles ( Soudain , to miss Me ) and electronic ( the Hell finally ). It should be noted that the very electro color of the album leads Etienne Daho to take up the technical and artistic challenge of the transposition on scene of the universes of Eden. It is with Jean-Louis Hennequin, already known for its collaborations with Barbara, that Etienne Daho entrusts the responsibility for this transposition which brings to the one of the first experiments of live data processing of the era MAO (music computer-assisted). The Kaléidoscope turn stops with the ICA of London, after being recorded in Transmusicales of Rennes in the room of the City, place of the first live service of Etienne Daho, but this recording remains always new, except for the live version of On my neck , on a text of Jean Genet. Individual the the first day, extracted from its first compilation Best off individual (1998), becomes a success and will be sold with: 600000 specimens. He writes the other me for Jane Birkin, sings in duet Dis him you that I love you with Vanessa Paradis to the evening of the Dumbs and Eucalyptus with Zazie on compilation Ensemble . He wrote " The first of us deux" for Sylvie Vartan; the latter took again " One ressemble" that she interpreted in tele show with Daho itself and Francoise Hardy.

It will have to be waited until 2000 so that the luminous Corps and Armes way the day. Carried out in London with the duet Valentins, the album is n° 1 of the sales at its exit and certified disc of gold. Ode with passion, Daho returns with what makes its claw: texts and musics of a very great feverish and impassioned poetry. The Ouverture of the album is frankly Wagnerian by its esthetic power and Daho shows that it still burns in the Blazing inferno and in very made a success of the Bay . Its long round “the turn of the summer without end”, immortalized in vibrating testimony Daho Live (gold disc), stops one week in Olympia (where it divides the scene with Vanessa Daou) and in Rex club of Paris in acoustic version.

In 2001, it brings back Dani on the front of the scene while producing and while singing in duet Like a boomerang writes by Serge Gainsbourg. This individual will be certified gold and becomes traditional instantaneous. The same year Etienne Daho is decorated and becomes knight of the Order of Merit.

In 2003, Daho signs Réévolution (gold disc), an album rock'n'roll, dark and enigmatic, recorded with its group of scene and which joins again (as its name indicates it) with its beginnings of Rennes. One notices individual the If there, in duet with Charlotte Gainsbourg, (already recorded in solo for the album of Ginger Ale), but as Marianne Faithfull for the song the Bonds of Eros and especially individual the Retour to you , a homage to the productions of Phil Spector as affectionate Daho. The very electric “Revolution tower” recorded and filmed and published in Sortir this evening (Best off Live) is certified gold album and DVD of platinum. In 2006, twenty years after its release, Capitol publishes a Deluxe version of Pop Satori (with news and remixes of Fischerspooner inter alia) regarded today as “the album founder of the pop Frenchwoman”. On this occasion, Daho rejoue the integral of this album in Olympia on November 13rd, within the framework of the festival of the Inrockuptibles, in the same program as TV one the Radio and gains a new triumph.

In 2006, Etienne Daho carried out the new album of Elli Medeiros and was named Officier of Arts and Lettres.

In 2007, recorded between London, Barcelona, Paris and Ibiza, its new album (entitled the Invitation ) carried out with Edith Fambuena, leaves on November 5th.

Discography

Albums studio

Albums live

Compilations

  • 1987 : Collection compilation of face B
  • 1995: Popzone box which gathers the first 3 albums and a disc no-claims bonus
  • 1998: Individual , double platinum disc
  • 2002: In the Skin De Daho , long box

Videotex

  • 1986 : One Satori Night in Olympia - VHS
  • 1991: Paris Elsewhere - VHS
  • 1993: Daholympia - VHS
  • 1998: Integral of the Clips - VHS/DVD
  • 2001: Daho Live - VHS/DVD
  • 2005: To leave This Evening - DVD dvd platinum

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