Florent Pagny (b.
November 6,
1961 in Chalon-sur-Saône
, Saône-et-Loire
) is a French
musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records
work in French, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include
"N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" (all three
were #1 in France) and "Caruso" (#2 in France).
Early years
Pagny began his artistic career as an actor in popular films and
television dramas. He appeared in
La Balance,
L'As des
as,
A Captain's
Honor or
Fort Saganne.
In 1987, he wrote his first song : "N'importe quoi." Pagny's first
album,
Merci, was released in 1990. The album's songs,
mainly written by himself, began to attract controversy, with the
press eventually boycotting some of them. This led to a decline in
sales, culminating in personal problems. His follow-up album,
Réaliste, was also not as successful.
Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote
three songs for Pagny under the pseudonym Sam Brewski, and
presented to him a new staff. The album
Rester vrai marked
the beginning of his career as a performer only.
Bienvenue chez
moi, a semi-compilation released in 1995, was a smash success.
Pagny also covered "Caruso", the hit originally performed by
Lucio Dalla.
Pagny as performer
Pagny decided to go live in
Patagonia in
order to escape the French tax authorities and start a new life
with his wife, Azucena, and her children. His next album,
Savoir aimer, was released in 1997. It was composed by
Goldman,
Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso,
and a new composer,
Pascal Obispo, who
produced "
Savoir aimer" which turned
out to be an immediate success.
In 1999, Pagny released an album of cover versions of his old song,
Recréation. From "Môme Julie" to "Antisocial", he mixed
musical styles and dabbled with
techno
arrangements.
Pagny then alternated studios and cover albums (at least in part)
and regularly changed his look. In 2000, he released the album
Châtelet Les Halles, whose title song was produced by
Calogero. He followed that with
2,
an album composed of duets released in 2001. In 2003, he returned
with
Ailleurs land, whose first single, "
Ma Liberté de penser", was
composed by Pascal Obispo and Lionel Florence and deals with
Pagny's problems with the French
treasury.
Finally, in 2004, Pagny released
Baryton, an album
composed of
opera songs.
In 2007, Pagny released an album of
covers of songs originally composed and
performed by
Jacques Brel entitled
Pagny chante Brel.
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
Live albums
- 1998 : En concert
- 2005 : Baryton - L'intégrale du spectacle
Compilations
- 1995 : Bienvenue chez
moi
- 1999 : Les talents du siècle
- 2008 : Les 50 plus belles chansons
- 2008 : De part et d'autre - Triple Best of
Singles
- 1987 : "N'importe quoi"
- 1988 : "Laissez-nous respirer"
- 1989 : "Comme d'habitude"
- 1990 : "J'te jure"
- 1990 : "Ça fait des nuits
- 1990 : "Presse qui roule"
- 1991 : "Prends ton temps"
- 1992 : "Tue-moi"
- 1993 : "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait"
- 1994 : "Est-ce que tu me suis ?"
- 1994 : "Si tu veux m'essayer"
- 1996 : "Caruso"
- 1996 : "Tue-moi" - reissue
- 1996 : "Oh Happy Day" (with La Chorale de Sarcelles)
- 1997 : "Savoir aimer"
- 1998 : "Chanter"
- 1998 : "D'un amour l'autre"
- 1998 : "Dors"
- 1999 : "Jolie môme"
- 2000 : "Les parfums de sa vie (je l'ai tant aimée)"
- 2000 : "Et un jour, une femme"
- 2001 : "Châtelet Les Halles"
- 2001 : "Terre"
- 2002 : "L'Air du temps" (duet with Cécilia Cara)
- 2003 : "Ma Liberté de
penser"
- 2003 : "Je trace"
- 2003 : "L'hymne à l'amour" (with Charles Aznavour, Isabelle Boulay, Stephan Eicher, Benjamin Biolay, Enrico Macias, Maurane,
Liane Foly, Brigitte Fontaine, Cheb Mami, Nolwenn
Leroy and Chimène Badi)
- 2004 : "Y'a pas un homme qui soit né pour ça" (with Calogero and Pascal
Obispo
- 2004 : "Io le canto per te"
- 2006 : "Là où je t'emmènerai"
- 2007 : "Un Ami" (duet with Marc
Lavoine)
Awards
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