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...