A barge moored
right downtown Paris... When he is not touring around the world,
this is where you might have a chance to meet Eric Vincent, one of the
best French Singer-songwriter, in the pure tradition of la Chanson
Française, in the line of Jacques Brel, Claude Nougaro, Georges
Brassens, Georges Moustaki... Eric Vincent who began his career in Paris
at the cabaret Le Port du Salut, with Coluche, has a passion for
taking his music to every corner of the globe. He has performed in more
than 140 countries.
Born in Forcé
(Mayenne), Eric Vincent began playing banjo and violin. After years of
classical studies, he gets his first guitar, composes his first songs
and becomes the guitarist of a local rock group, then of a Jazz quartet.
His main passion remains to sing and his only goal is to
become a professional singer. Winner of a song-contest, he gets the
award to open a Jacques Brel concert in Quiberon (Brittany). Jacques
Brel compliments the young singer and encourages him to try his luck in
Paris. A few months later, he decides to settle in the capital where he
is invited by France Inter, for a live performance, with Claude Nougaro. Eric signs his first contract with Eddie Barclay, a Major
French record company and, to live, he performs in cabarets rive gauche,
like Le Port du Salut. He gets also gigs all around France, by opening
the shows of stars like Johnny Hallyday, Charles Aznavour, Gilbert
Bécaud, etc... A first record is released and his songs are broadcasted
on the French radios.
A
concert-tour in the Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar, Mauritius, La
Réunion, les Comores...) turns out to be such a success that he is
requested to come back, a few months later... It's the beginning of an
amazing international career... first, in the French speaking
countries, and soon, everywhere in the world, proving that there is no
language barrier for his songs. In France, we can hear his songs on the
radios and see him on TV (Le Grand Echiquier/Jacques Chancel, Philippe Bouvard, etc...).
Today, Eric
Vincent is performing on the five continents, from the Opera of Hanoï (Vietnam) to the Opera of Manaus
(Brasil). In the USA, where he is
touring every year, he has given concerts in universities, high and
middle schools of every state (except Hawaï and Alaska), as well as in
congresses (ACTFL, AATF, MAFLA, etc...) He has filled, several
times, the Brooklyn Auditorium in New-York, followed by his Haitian
fans, thanks to his song Haïti Kimbe fo, a hit in Haïti. Just before the
terrible hearthquake in Haïti, he was in Jacmel, singing for 5000
persons, place Toussaint Louverture, and in Port-au-Prince,
where a crowd had filled the gardens of the French
Institute...
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Si du méringué tu es dingue
Pose ton flingue à Saint Domingue
Si c'est un calypso fais un saut
À Trinidad ou Tobago
Ça sent bon, ça sent beau, ça Samba
San Salvador da Bahia...
LP Lula - CD Survol
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Eric's
appearances elicit enthusiastic responses. The language
barrier is overcome by his showmanship and by the lively spirit of his
music. His songs, a blend of jazz, rock and ethnic rhythms, flavored by his world travels,offer
audiences direct contact with contemporary French poetry and modern
music. Eric exhibits an
extraordinary presence on stage, his charisma dazzles his public. With a
beautiful voice, he is personable and dynamic and his
universal themes touch deeply the young as much as adult people. He has
such an extraordinary presence on stage. His charisma dazzles everybody.
They always ask for an encore... |
Mon pays ce sera
Là où tu seras bien
Là où je serai moi
Là où tu seras belle
Mon pays ce sera
Là où mes ritournelles
N'ont pas peur de mourir
Sans avoir dit pourquoi...
CD Un Pays quelque Part
Eric VINCENT's concerts
leave us in a heightened state of emotion. His electrifying performance
charges the audience. His virtuosity, as a guitar player, is
impressive. His style, personal and unique is surprisingly
sophisticated, but, in no way, interferes with the warm and relaxed
atmosphere he creates. Even when he performs a one man band show, he
makes us forget that he is alone on stage
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"Eric Vincent's
return to New York a success. His Music is
universal"
(NEW YORK TIMES)
"Composotor
francès ultrapassa fronteiras da linguagem"
(DIARO DA MANHA - BRAZIL)
"Music for a
world without borders"
(SINGAPOR TIMES)
"Eric Vincent
: Canciòn sin barreras"
(CULTURA - MEXICO CITY)
"French
singer Eric Vincent overcomes the language barrier"
(BANGKOK POST)
Faut trois notes
pour faire un accord 
Trois accords pour une chanson
Un peu de terre, d'eau et de
feu
Sept couleurs pour un arc-en-ciel
S'il faut de tout pour faire un monde
Si des différences naît l'harmonie
Nos solitudes se confondent
À l'épicentre de la vie... CD Harmoniques
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Some years ago, He has
been involved in the world-wide project Opération Boule de neige,
initiated by school French children who thought that
violence on TV was a very bad exemple. Eric helped them to write
the song Jamais plus de violence, directed it's recording and then,
promoted the project all around the world.
The program Sous les Etoiles exactement on the French National Radio
(France Inter) gave Eric Vincent a "Carte Blanche" to host his friends
artists from the world, e.g. Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls), Georges
Moustaki, Chéri Samba, Lokua Kanza, etc…
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Eric Vincent is featured in
several textbooks: Discovering French Today: Blanc (Level 2)
by Valette and
Valette (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©
2013),
SAM
Contacts: Langue et Culture Françaises, 9th edition, by Valette and Valette (Heinle
Cengage, © 2014)
C'est
Comme ça, by Valette and Valette (D.C Heath and
Co)
Sans Bornes
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston) Si on chantait
avec...Eric Vincent (Hatier/Didier),
and in a video: Reflets
Français, (Bernard Petit Prod),
promoted by AATF... |
The following Eric Vincent CDs can be found on line at CD Baby:
Faut-il Encore 2000 Ans ? recorded after his meeting with James Taylor. This album includes eight James Taylor tunes written into French, by Eric Vincent. Survol, Un Pays Quelque part (featuring Haïti Kimbe Fo and A la Claire Fontaine), Lula, Harmoniques, Il n'y a de nouveau que c'qui est oublié....L’or de l’Instant (his last CD) features the eponym song, inspired by Albert Camus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe). Alfred (Alfred Jarry), Les bosses dans le Jardin (homage to Dino Buzatti), Peinture Hongroise (tribute to the Hungarian painter Tivadar Csontvary) and... Etrange Mélancolie, written with his friend Georges Moustaki, is the last music composed by the author of Mylord and Le Métèque.
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Éric Vincent is published in:
Les Arrangeurs de la chanson française Serge Elhaïk (Editions Textuel © 2018)
Petit abécédaire d'un
amoureux de la chanson Georges Moustaki
(Éditions de archipel-2012)
SAM Contacts: Langue et Culture Françaises, 9th edition, by Valette and Valette (Heinle Cengage © 2014)
Discovering French Today: Blanc (Level 2) by Valette and Valette (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©2013)
La Chanson de Paris Jean
Lapierre (Aumage editions)
Georges Moustaki La Ballade Du
Métèque Louis-jean Calvet (Fayard/Chorus)
Îles Centre Georges
Pompidou (Gallimard)
J’aime Chéri Samba Fondation
Cartier
pour l’art contemporain (Actes Sud)
Florilège de la chanson de mer Jacques Yvart (EMOM)
C'est Comme ça by Valette and Valette
(D.C Heath and Co),
Sans Bornes
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
Reflets Français
(Bernard Petit Prod.)
Si on chantait avec...
Eric VINCENT (Didier/Hatier)
On the Ricardo Vilas CD Mon cher
ami, featuring Bernard
Lavilliers, Francis Hime, Wagner Tiso,
Anna Torres, Kay
Lyra... Eric sings in duet with
Ricardo the song Les mots en Té
  
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