Alain Bashung

Alain Bashung Born Alain Baschung On 1 December 1947 In Paris And Died On 14 March 2009 Was A French Singer Songwriter And Actor He Was The Son Of A Brittany Born Mother And A Kabyle Father He Never Knew. When Alain Bashung Was One Year Old He Was Sent To The Strasbourg Area In Wingersheim To Stay With His Grandparents. He Spent His Childhood In The Country In A Conservative Environment. When He Was Five Years Old He Discovered Music Most Notably Kurt Weill As He Played Harmonica. He Was Also A Choirboy In The Church At Wingersheim And Played Basket-Ball. At School He Was Regarded Serious Child. He Returned To Paris In 1959 Where He Discovered The Great Names Of Chanson Française The Radio American Rock With Gene Vincent Buddy Holly And Elvis Presley. Whilst Studying To Become An Accountant He Started A Short Lived Band With Friends “les Dunces” Whose Style Swong Between Folk And Rockabilly. He Quickly Dropped His Studies. Bashung Started A Band With Musicians Met In Royan A New Band Playing In Restaurants Hotels And Most Of All The American Bases. His Career Started With Some Difficulties With The Release Of His First Single At 19 Years Of Age “Pourquoi Rêvez-Vous Des États-Unis ?” In 1966. He Released A Dozen Singles One Using The Pseudonym David Bergen And Two Others. In 1971/1972 Under The Pseudonym "Hendrick Darmen" Compositor And Singer Of The Band “Monkey Bizness”. He Wrote A Number Of Songs For Stars Of The Time Like Noël Deschamps But Doesn't Appear To Have Reached Success. In 1973 He Played Robespierre In The Musical “La Révolution Française” Written By Claude-Michel Schönberg. He Met Dick Rivers The Singer Of Les Chats Sauvages For Whom He Composed And Produced Music. He Met Musician Andy Scott And The Songwriter Boris Bergman And In 1977 Wrote His First Innovative LP “Romans Photos” Though It Was A Commercial Failure In The Context Of Punk Storming Music. In 1979 He Released “Roulette Russe” A Very Dark And More Rock Orientated Album. He Confirmed His Talent With Critical Acclaim And Public Success In 1981 With The Rock Influenced Album “pizza” Mainly With One Single From The Album “Gaby Oh Gaby” That Finally Got Bashung Success In The Charts In 1981 Followed By The Single “Vertige De L'amour” And Started Touring The Bigger Venues Notably “l'Olympia” In Paris. In 1982 Bashung Collaborated With Serge Gainsbourg On The Complex Album “Play Blessures” That Did Not Achieve Commercial Success. In 1983 He Confused His Fan Base With An Album Deviating From The Previous Rock Style “Figure Imposée”. In 1985 He Came Back With A Number Of Titles Written For “SOS Racisme” Anti-Racism Organisation . In 1986 He Released “Passé Le Rio Grande” Which Won Him A “Victoire De La Musique”. Two Singles Achieved Some Success Over The Airwaves “Malédiction” And “L'arrivée Du Tour”. However The Album Itself Did Not Sell Much. In 1992 He Started A Long Partnership With Writer Jean Fauque For “Osez Joséphine” An Album Which Also Contains Some Cover Of Classic Rock Such As “Night In White Satin”. His Fan Base Grew And The Album Sold 350 000 Copies. In 1994 He Followed Up With “Chatterton ” Collaborating With Sonny Landreth Ally McErlaine Link Wray Marc Ribot And Stéphane Belmondo. The Key Single Extracted From This Album Is “Ma Petite Entreprise.” He Started A Two-Year Tour That Results In The 1995 Live Album “Confessions Publiques.” After Recording A Duet With Brigitte Fontaine "City" For Her Album "Les Palaces" Bashung Returned To The Musical World Following A Stint Acting And In 1998 With “Fantaisie Militaire”. While Making This Album In Collaboration With Rodolphe Burger Les Valentins And Jean-Marc Lederman. He Will Receive Three Victoires De La Musique For The Album In 1999. In 2002 He Released The “L'imprudence” Album To Further Critical Acclaim. During The Same Year He Recorded With His Wife Actress And Comedian Chloé Mons “le Cantique Des Cantiques”. They Created This Title For Their Wedding In 2001 On A Music Written By Rodolphe Burger And On The Basis A A New Translation Of The “Cantique Des Cantiques” From The Bible By The Author Olivier Cadiot. In 2004 He Released Live Double Album “La Tournée Des Grands Espaces." In 2005 For The Twentieth Victoires De La Musique He Received An Award For The Best Album Of The Last 20 Years For “Fantaisie Militaire.” In The Beginning Of 2007 He Participates In The Tour “Les Aventuriers D'un Autre Monde” With Jean-Louis Aubert Téléphone Cali Daniel Darc Richard Kolinka Téléphone And Raphaeël. In March 2009 He Recieved Three Victoires De La Musique For His Last Album "Bleu Pétrol". He Passed Away On March 14th 2009 Of Complications Of Metastatic Lung Cancer. read less