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Quentin Mosimann
Background information
Born	(1988-02-14) February 14, 1988 (age 24)
Origin	Switzerland
Genres	Pop music
Occupations	Singer
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Universal Music
Associated acts	Star Academy 7
Website	Officiel site

Quentin Mosimann (born on February 14, 1988, in Geneva) is a Swiss singer, winner of the seventh season of the TV reality show Star Academy France. His first solo album, Duel, is composed of cover versions of 1980s hits. His second album, Exhibition is due for release in May 2010.

Biography[link]

Quentin Mosimann was born in Geneva on February 14, 1988,^[1] of a Swiss father (a native of Berne in German-speaking Switzerland) and a French mother.^[2] However, he only had that Swiss nationality.

He lived for three years in Geneva,^[3] then, following the separation of his parents, moved to Bogève, Haute-Savoie, with his mother.^[1]

He currently lives in Hyères, Var (since 2005)^[3] where he performs, under the pseudonym John Louly, as a DJ, at the NJoy, with John Revox and Christian Sims.

Quentin Mosimann was selected for the Star Academy 7. Throughout the weeks, the young man sang in a jazzy and electro musical universe. With a sole pre-nomination and a victory in the semi-final against Claire-Marie, he won the final on February 15, 2008, with 52.6% of votes, and 47.4% for Mathieu. He won 1,000,000 euros, 200,000 of them immediately available.

On August 18, 2008, he released his debut album, Duel, a double album, which was #2 in France and #1 in Belgium (Wallonia). It contains many cover versions of 1980s hits, such as "C'est l'amour", by Léopold Nord & Vous, "Mise au point" by Jakie Quartz and "Étienne" by Guesch Patti. On February 15, 2010, he released his second album "Exhibition", a pop-electro album which was #7 in France, #5 in Belgium (Wallonia) and #36 in Switzerland.

He is actually working on an electronic album.

Discography[link]

With Star Academy 7[link]

• 2007 : Peace & Love 70 (single : "Bangladesh")

As John Louly[link]

Released under Diamond Recordz label

• "Hot Vocation" (John Revox & Christian Sims feat. John Louly)
• "Tears" (John Revox feat. John Louly, ORPHAZ)
• "Holiday" (Christian Sims & John Revox feat. John Louly)

Unreleased

• "My Answer" (John Revox feat. John Louly)
• "Stop in my Mind" (John Revox et Christian Sims feat. John Louly)

Solo discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

• Quentin Mosimann, discography and peak positions in Belgium (Wallonia)
• Quentin Mosimann, discography and peak positions in France

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2008-09-06 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

External links[link]

• Official site

Mickaël Miro (born in Lyon, France in January 1979) is a French singer-songwriter. He also uses the pseudonym Miro as a tribute to his deceased grandfather. He is best known for his debut single "L'Horloge Tourne" followed by his debut album Juste comme ça ion 2011.

Born in Lyon, Mickaël Miro studied business law at the university, but preferred music writing many songs while studying at the university. He sticks to the tradition of French songs, influenced by what he called French "BCBG" (meaning Balavoine, Cabrel, Berger, and Goldman).

In 2007, he took part in a musical collective "Les Marguerites" for fight against Alzheimer appearing in the singe "J'y étais pas" and later was signed to Midi52/EMI. In 2008, he toured with the rock group ANESA opening for their shows.

In October 2010, he released his debut single "L'Horloge Tourne" with great success^[1] followed by his debut album Juste comme ça that contains collaborations with Natasha St Pier in duo. "Ma scandaleuse" became the second single release from the album. He also appeared in a number of television variety shows including Taratata and Tous Ensemble.

Awards[link]

• On 30 December 2011, his single "L'Horloge Tourne" won the award for "The Song of the Year 2011" in year-end program broadcast on TF1 called "La Chanson de l'année" presented by Nikos Aliagas.^[2][3]
• On 28 January 2012, he was nominated in the category "Francophone Revelation of the Year" at the NRJ Music Awards 2012.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Myspace

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Gipsy Kings
The band playing live
Background information
Origin	Arles, Provence, France
Genres	rumba flamenca, pop
Years active	1978–present
Labels	Elektra Records Nonesuch Records Columbia/SME Records
Website	http://www.gipsykings.com/
Members
Nicolas Reyes Paul Reyes Canut Reyes Patchai Reyes Andre Reyes Diego Baliardo Paco Baliardo Tonino Baliardo
Past members
Chico Bouchikhi Jorge Trasante

The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of Moroccan and Algerian descent. They are known for bringing rumba catalana, a pop-oriented music distantly derived from traditional flamenco music, to worldwide audiences. The group originally called itself Los Reyes.

Their music has a particular rumba flamenca style, with pop influences; many songs of the Gipsy Kings fit social dances, such as salsa and rumba. Their music has been described as a place where "Spanish flamenco and Romani rhapsody meet salsa funk".^[1]

Background[link]

The Gipsy Kings are from France and are largely responsible for bringing the sounds of progressive pop-oriented flamenco to the world. The band started out in Arles, a town in southern France, during the 1970s, when brothers Nicolas and Andre Reyes, the sons of renowned flamenco artist Jose Reyes, teamed up with their cousins Jacques, Maurice, and Tonino Baliardo, who played with Manitas de Plata. Manitas de Plata and Jose Reyes were a 2-man group that started the entire revelation of Gypsy Rumba, but mostly Jose, who was a famous singer, when he departed Manitas and started a band of his own made up of his children which he called "Los Reyes". Los Reyes would later become "Gipsy Kings".

Los Reyes started out as a gypsy band. They traveled around France, playing at weddings, festivals, and in the streets. Because they lived so much like gypsies, the band adopted the name The Gipsy Kings. Later, they were hired to add color to posh parties in St. Tropez. But popularity did not come to Los Reyes quickly, and their first two albums attracted little notice. At this point, the Gipsies played traditional flamenco punctuated by Baliardo's precise guitar playing and Nicolas Reyes' exceptional voice.

Though they had devoted fans, the Gipsy Kings then had yet to gain wider recognition. That was until 1986, when they met producer Claude Martinez, who could see that the Kings had the makings of a world-class band.

The three left-handed guitarists in the Gipsy Kings' line-up play guitars that are strung for a right-hander, playing them upside-down. These left-handed performers focus on delivering the strong underpinning rhythms while the more complex leads are performed by the right-handed and conventionally styled Baliardo.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

They became popular with their self-titled first album, Gipsy Kings, which included the songs "Djobi Djoba" ^[2], "Bamboleo" ^[3] and the romantic ballad "Un Amor". The song "Volare" on their fourth album Mosaïque is a rumba version of Domenico Modugno's Italian hit "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu". The Gipsy Kings were popular in Africa and throughout Europe, as well as in the Middle East.

In 1989, Gipsy Kings was released in the United States, and it spent 40 weeks on the charts, one of few Spanish language albums to do so. They covered "I've Got No Strings" on the 1991 Disney video and compilation album Simply Mad About the Mouse. Their cover version of "Hotel California" is an example of fast flamenco guitar leads and rhythmic strumming (this version was featured in the Coen Brothers' movie The Big Lebowski, as well on the HBO series Entourage). The 2010 film Toy Story 3 featured a version of "You've Got a Friend in Me" performed and recorded by the Gipsy Kings; the Spanish release featured the Spanish version, titled "Hay un Amigo en Mi" and played in a flamenco style.

The Gipsy Kings will plan to release their seventh album, entitled The GK S.A.R.L. Apartments in 2015.

Members[link]

Gipsy Kings are members of two related families: the Reyes (Kings in Spanish) and the Baliardos. Nicolas, Canut, Paul, Andre and Patchai Reyes are sons of the flamenco singer Jose Reyes. The Gipsy Kings are:

• Nicolas Reyes: lead vocals, guitar
• Paul Reyes: backup vocals, guitar
• François "Canut" Reyes: backup vocals, guitar
• Patchai Reyes: backup vocals, guitar
• André Reyes: backup vocals, guitar
• Diego Baliardo: guitar
• Paco Baliardo: guitar
• Tonino Baliardo: lead guitar

Jahloul Chico Bouchikhi was also a member of the Gipsy Kings, but quit after the album Mosaïque and the tour supporting it. He had issues with the album's producers, which the other band members did not back. Bouchikhi, a co-founder of the band, lost the Gipsy Kings trademark. (He claims to have registered it after coming up with the name.) He founded a band of his own called "Chico and the Gypsies".

Discography[link]

• Allegria (1982)
• Luna de Fuego (1983)
• Gipsy Kings (1988)
• Mosaïque (1989)
• Allegria (US Version) (1990)
• Este Mundo (1991)
• Live (1992)
• Love and Liberté (1993)
• Greatest Hits (1994)
• The Best of the Gipsy Kings (1995)
• Estrellas (Non-US Version of Tierra Gitana) (1995)
• Tierra Gitana (1996)
• Compas (1997)
• Cantos de Amor (1998)
• ¡Volaré! The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings (1999, re-released in 2000)
• Somos Gitanos (2001)
• Roots (2004)
• Pasajero (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Homepage
• Gipsy Kings Official Youtube Channel
• Gipsy Kings Discography
• The Gipsy Kings' biography and discography
• Gipsy Kings info, concerts and more
• Biography/Miscellanious
• Song lyrics
• The Gipsy Kings at Allmusic

Enrico Macias
Enrico Macias in Tel Aviv 2011
Background information
Birth name	Gaston Ghrenassia
Born	(1938-12-11) 11 December 1938 (age 73) Constantine
Origin	French Algeria
Genres	Chanson
Occupations	Composer, singer, songwriter
Instruments	Guitar
Website	Enrico Macias Official Website

Gaston Ghrenassia, known by his stage name Enrico Macias, (born 11 December 1938 in Constantine, then in French Algeria) is an Algerian French Pied noir singer and musician. He is popular throughout the world and has travelled extensively for fifty years, from the early 1960s to the present.

Early years[link]

He was born to a Jewish family in Constantine, Algeria, and played the guitar from childhood. His father, Sylvain Ghrenassia (1914–2004),^[1] was a violinist in an orchestra that played primarily maalouf, Andalo-Arabic music. Gaston started playing with the Cheikh Raymond Leyris Orchestra at 15.^[2]

He pursued a career as a school teacher, but continued practicing the guitar. In 1961, the Algerian War of Independence was raging, and the situation became untenable for the Jewish and European residents of Constantine. Of immense effect on Gaston Ghrenassia was the assassination in 1961 of his father-in-law and musician Cheikh Raymond Leyris by the National Liberation Front (FLN). Gaston left Algeria with his wife, Suzy, on 29 July 1961, eleven months before the end of the Algerian War of Independence, and went into exile in mainland France. He has not been permitted to return to Algeria ever since.He was a member of a militia as part of the french army during the Algerian War of Independence which committed crimes.

Career[link]

First living in Argenteuil, he eventually moved to Paris, where he decided to pursue a career in music. At first he tried translating into French the maalouf numbers which he already knew. Later on, he developed a new French repertoire that he performed in cafés and cabarets. He remained, though, a popular interpreter of Arab-Andalusian music and Judeo-Arab songs in France.

He adopted the name Enrico Macias. Enrico comes from him being called "petit Enrico" when he joined Cheikh Raymond's orchestra. Macias comes through an error of the record label with which he eventually signed. When asked about his family name on the phone he said "Nassia" (Ghrenassia), but the receptionist misheard the name and wrote Macias. Thus the name Enrico Macias.

He made his first recording in 1962 after a meeting with Raymond Bernard of Pathé. The result was the recording of "Adieu mon pays" which he had composed for his beloved Algeria on the boat on his way to France. He appeared on French television and became an overnight sensation. This led to a first tour in 1963 as a second act with Paola and Billy Bridge. His daughter, Jocya, was also born that year.

In spring 1964, he performed in the first half of the Les Compagnons de la chanson show at the Paris Olympia and then undertook a successful tour of the Middle East, performing with great success in Lebanon, Greece and Turkey, where he still has a huge following today. In Turkey, many of his songs were translated and interpreted by Turkish artists.^[3] In 1965, he was awarded the Prix Vincent Scotto, and the following year he sang before 120,000 people at the Dinamo Stadium in Moscow, performing concerts in more than 40 other Soviet cities. He also toured Japan, where he was impressively successful. He recorded titles in Spanish and Italian and was popular in both countries.

His American debut, at a sold-out Carnegie Hall, took place on 17 February 1968. He continued to tour the United States, singing in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. In Canada and Quebec, he was warmly welcomed as a francophone artist.

In 1971, he returned to the Paris Olympia, then went to the Royal Albert Hall in London, and back to Japan, Canada, Italy and Spain. A second US tour culminated in a concert at Carnegie Hall in 1972. In 1974, he gave ten shows at the Uris Theater on Broadway, and also at the Olympia for the sixth time since his debut.

He toured France and went twice to Israel in 1976 and 1978. He was invited to Egypt by the Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat to sing for peace. This came after Macias having been banned from Arab countries for many years, despite keeping his popularity with Arab and ethnic audiences in the Middle East and North Africa. In Egypt, he sang in front of 20,000 people at the foot of the Pyramids. After Sadat's assassination, he wrote a song dedicated to the late president entitled "Un berger vient de tomber".

In 1988, he had a big hit with "Zingarella", particularly in Israel and Turkey upon his tour in both countries in addition to South Korea.

In April 1992, he tried acting in a play adapted from English, called Quelle nuit. He also had a role as a local judge in the French TV film Monsieur Molina.

Enrico Macias lost much money through dubious financial services offered by the Luxembourg subsidiary of an Icelandic bank, now under investigation. He is currently trying to recover it (http://www.your-mortgage-calculator.com/blog/2011/10/mortgages-a-subsidiary-of-icelandic-bank-indicted/). This may be one of the reasons why he came out of retirement.

Albums and singles[link]

Of great popularity were his 1960s Oriental-influenced songs like "J’ai quitté mon pays", "Les filles de mon pays", "L'Orientale", "Entre l'orient et l'occident" and tribute songs like "Le violon de mon père" (to his father), and "Mon chanteur préferé" (a tribute to his father-in-law Cheikh Raymond).

He was also popular with the French interpretation of "'Oh guitare, guitare" and the Spanish versions of "El Porompompero" and "Solenzara".

Big French hits include "Paris, tu m'as pris dans tes bras", "La femme de mon ami", "Non je n'ai pas oublié", "La France de mon enfance", "Les gens du nord" and "Les filles de mon pays".

He has sung in many languages including French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, English, Armenian, Arabic and many of its dialects, and recently in Yiddish anduu Tamazight.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 1983: Deux ailes et trois plumes
• 1984: Générosité
• 1987: Enrico
• 1989: Le vent du sud
• 1991: Enrico
• 1992: Mon chanteur préferé
• 1993: Suzy
• 1994: La France de mon enfance
• 1995: Et Johnny Chante L'amour
• 1999: Aie Aie Aie Je T'Aime
• 1999: Hommage à Cheikh Raymond
• 2003: Oranges amères (produced by his son, Jean-Claude Ghrenassia)
• 2005: Chanter
• 2006: La Vie populaire
• 2011: Voyage d'une mélodie

Live albums / compilations[link]

• 1989: Olympia 89
• 1990: Disque d'Or
• 1992: Le plus grand bonheur du monde
• 1996: La Fête à l'Olympia
• 2003: Les Indispensables de Enrico Macias
• 2003: Concerts Musicorama
• 2006: Olympia 2003
• 2006: Les Concerts Exclusifs Europe
• 2008: Platinum Collection

Singles[link]

(Macias singles in alphabetical order)

Achievements[link]

• In 1965 he was awarded the Prix Vincent Scotto.
• He received a gold disc in 1976 for "Mélissa".
• He was named Singer of Peace by UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in 1980 after he donated the proceeds of his single "Malheur à celui qui blesse un enfant" to the Unicef
• In 1997, Kofi Annan named him Roving Ambassador for Peace and the Defence of Children.

Collaborations[link]

He has collaborated with tens of artists, and his songs have been interpreted in many languages.

• He sang "Melissa" as a duet with Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan
• In 1991, he had a duet with Ginni Gallan entitled "Un amour, une amie".
• In 2003, he sang "Koum Tara" with Cheb Mami featured in the latter's album Du Sud au Nord and again a live version, this time on Cheb Mami's 2004 album Live au Grand Rex"'
• In Turkey, many artists have interpreted his songs with Turkish lyrics including Ajda Pekkan, Başar Tamer, Berkant, Engin Evin, Ferdi Özbeğen, Gökben, Gönül Yazar, Hümeyra, İhsan Kayral, Juanito, Kamuran Akkor, Mavi Çocuklar, Nilüfer, Ömür Göksel, Selçuk Ural, Semiramis Pekkan, Seyyal Taner, Sezer Güvenirgil, Sibel Egemen, Tanju Okan, Yeliz

Controversies[link]

His decision to try to play concerts in Algeria resulted in huge controversy. After the cancellation of a proposed tour in Algeria in 2000, he wrote a book Mon Algérie (Editions Plon in October 2001) marketed as a "veritable love story between one man and his homeland".

On 14 February 2007, he announced his support of Nicolas Sarkozy for the French presidential elections. He confirmed his political convictions of the political left, but said he could not support the Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal, although he would have supported her if Laurent Fabius or Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been the candidates.

He attempted again unsuccessfully to visit Algeria in November 2007 accompanying French president Nicolas Sarkozy, but was faced with fierce resistance from several Algerian organizations and individuals, including Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem, due to his support of Israel. He has never been permitted to return to Algeria since he left in 1961.^[4][5]

Personal life[link]

Enrico Macias was married in 1961, while he was still in Algeria, to Suzy Leyris, the daughter of famous musician Cheikh Raymond Leyris and left with her to France after the assassination of his father-in-law. He was devastated by the death of his wife Suzy Macias on 23 December 2008. His 1993 album Suzy is dedicated to her.

His son, Jean-Claude Ghrenassia, is a well-known music producer as well.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Enrico Macias Official Website
• Enrico Macias at Yahoo Music
• Enrico Macias Biography at RFI Musique
• Enrico Macias at the Internet Movie Database

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