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Petit hommage à la chanteuse Maurane (+ biographie)
Maurane, de son véritable nom Claudine Luypaerts est née le 12 novembre 1960 à Ixelles en Belgique. Ses parents sont musiciens : sa mère est pianiste et son père est directeur d'un conservatoire de musique. Elle grandit avec son frère et sa sœur, baignés dans la musique classique, entre Bach et Debussy. La jeune Claudine commence l'apprentissage de la musique par des cours de violon à l'âge de huit ans. Détestant toute forme de scolarité, elle pratique par elle-même le piano puis la guitare. Mais en fait, elle est enchantée par les comédies musicales comme "West Side Story" ou les "Demoiselles de Rochefort". Et ce qui lui plaît surtout, c'est le chant.
À 16-17 ans, elle participe à des concours et à divers festivals. Elle se fait appeler à ce moment-là, Claudie Claude. En 1979, elle participe au spectacle intitulé "Brel en mille temps" d'Albert-André Lheureux avec Philippe Lafontaine et Daria de Martynoff (qui écrit pour elle aujourd'hui). C'est là que Pierre Barouh, compositeur français reconnu, la découvre. Après quelques échanges plus ou moins difficiles entre eux, il décide de produire son premier 45T sur son label Saravah. "J'me roule en boule" sort en 1980.
Plusieurs autres 45T suivent sans grand succès : "Fais soleil" en 81, "T'as pas la pêche" en 83, "Moi l'argent, toi jeune" en 85. Pendant ces années, elle vit de petits contrats en chantant dans les rues et les restaurants, devenant choriste à l'occasion, sur les albums de Jo Lemaire ou de Philippe Lafontaine.
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Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933 in North Carolina, the sixth of seven children in a poor family. She began playing the piano at age 4 and was classically trained, attending the Juilliard School in New York for one year. She had hoped to attend the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, but was rejected — one of many disappointments she would attribute to racism.
Simone turned to singing jazz and popular music as a way to make money, performing in nightclubs in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N.J. In the late 1950s Simone recorded her first tracks, including "Plain Gold Ring" and "Don't Smoke in Bed." But she gained fame in 1959 with her recording of "I Loves You Porgy," from the George and Ira Gershwin Broadway musical, "Porgy & Bess." Soon Nina Simone the nightclub singer became Nina Simone the star, performing at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.
There was a time when Nina Simone was dubbed "the high priestess of soul," a term she hated, not only because it smacked of marketing hype but because it tried to put her in a box she'd never have fit in comfortably. While Simone certainly invested all her work with soul, she blurred boundaries and jumped genres, embracing jazz, pop, blues, spirituals, folk, French chansons, African song and the works of contemporary songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, the Bee Gees and the Beatles -- Simone's reading of "Here Comes the Sun" remains a transcendent moment of elegance and joy. Simone was also one of the first African American artists to embrace traditional African garb, adding regal bearing to her already dramatic presence.
>>> Read the full bio
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Simone turned to singing jazz and popular music as a way to make money, performing in nightclubs in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N.J. In the late 1950s Simone recorded her first tracks, including "Plain Gold Ring" and "Don't Smoke in Bed." But she gained fame in 1959 with her recording of "I Loves You Porgy," from the George and Ira Gershwin Broadway musical, "Porgy & Bess." Soon Nina Simone the nightclub singer became Nina Simone the star, performing at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.
There was a time when Nina Simone was dubbed "the high priestess of soul," a term she hated, not only because it smacked of marketing hype but because it tried to put her in a box she'd never have fit in comfortably. While Simone certainly invested all her work with soul, she blurred boundaries and jumped genres, embracing jazz, pop, blues, spirituals, folk, French chansons, African song and the works of contemporary songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, the Bee Gees and the Beatles -- Simone's reading of "Here Comes the Sun" remains a transcendent moment of elegance and joy. Simone was also one of the first African American artists to embrace traditional African garb, adding regal bearing to her already dramatic presence.
>>> Read the full bio
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