A beautiful barge moored right downtown Paris... This is where you might have a chance to meet Eric VINCENT. Beyond that, The Singer-Songwriter who began his career in Paris at the famous cabaret Le Port du Salut, with Coluche, has a special passion for taking his music to every corner of the globe, and, as the world press affirms, he is considered one of the best contemporary French Singer-songwriter, in the pure tradition of la chanson française, in the line of Jacques Brel, Claude Nougaro, Georges Brassens...
Eric was born in a small village, next to Laval (Mayenne) in the Western part of France. He began playing banjo, then violin, when he was a kid. After some years of brilliant classical studies he got his first guitar and composed his first tunes. Passionated by la chanson française, his only goal was to become a professional singer. For that he had to go to Paris, to try his luck. Quite soon he signs a first contract with Barclay, a Major French record company, and in the meantime he gets gigs in cabarets like l'échelle de Jacob, le Port du Salut... and also gigs, to open the show, with confirmed French stars like Johnny Hallyday, Claude François, Charles Aznavour, Gilbert Bécaud...
After a few years of performances in the Parisian cabarets and several tours in France, he is hired for a concert-tour in the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, La Réunion... The tour is a success and will be, for him, the beginning of an international career. Today, His name has appeared on marquees in more than 140 countries... From the Opera of Hanoï (Vietnam) to the Opera of Manaus (Brasil), he has performed, in many prestigious venues, on the five continents…
In the USA, where he is touring every year, most of the time, for school concerts in High and Middle schools and Universities, he has performed in every State, except Hawaï and Alaska. He has appeared on radio and television and has, also, been invited to perform at several congresses like ACTFL in Boston, Ma, or National AATF congresses, MAFLA, etc...
He has filled, several times, the Brooklyn Auditorium, in New-York City, with a public composed, for the most part, of Haitian people, probably, thanks to his song Haïti Kimbe fo’, that is a great hit in Haïti. A few weeks before the terrible hearthquake in Haïti, he was singing in front of 5000 persons, place Toussaint Louverture, in Jacmel and, as well, in Port-au-Prince, where a crowd had filled the gardens of the French Institute, to sing his tunes with him....
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... |
Set your sight on Santo Domingo If it's calypso that turns you on, jump right over To Trinidad or Tobago It feels good, it smells good , it Sambas San Salvador of Bahia... |
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 |
My country will be Wherever you feel free and at ease Where I can be myself Where you will be seen as beautiful as you are My country will be Wherever my songs Don't have to die Without knowing why. |
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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... |
We need three notes to make a chord Three chords for a tune A bit of earth fire and water Seven colors for a rainbow If we need everything to make a world If from differences we get harmony Our lonelinesses are mingling By the epicenter of life... |
The program "Sous les Etoiles
exactement" on the French National Radio
(France Inter) has given 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…
Some years ago, Eric VINCENT met James TAYLOR, and after
a friendly contact with the american singer, he
decided to record the album Faut-il Encore 2000 Ans ?,
French
adaptation written by Eric on the music of Carolina in my mind. This eleven songs album includes eight tunes composed by James TAYLOR and written, into French, by Eric.
Other Eric VINCENT's CDs and LPs: 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....
In the last CD, L’or
de l’Instant, we feel, for this eponym title, the inspiration of Albert Camus (Le
Mythe de Sisyphe). Alfred is a tribute to Alfred Jarry, Les bosses dans le Jardin
to Dino Buzatti, Peinture
Hongroise to the Hungarian painter Tivadar Csontvary. Etrange Mélancolie has been written with the collaboration of his friend Georges MOUSTAKI,
who has composed the music on his lyrics.
Musicians: Pierre
Chérèze, Sylvin
Marc,
Tony Rabeson, Vincent
Hamamdjian, Patrick Huard, Jean-Philippe Audin,
Billy
Drewes, Eddy
Louiss, Roland Romanelli, Justin Vali, Christophe
Guiot...
CDs
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