Pierre Lapointe

L’épatant jeune musicien de Beauport présente un premier album solo rafraîchissant, explorant plusieurs styles avec une audace théâtrale qu’on ose trop peu souvent. Ceux qui l’ont entendu au sein du groupe The Seasons savent déjà qu’Hubert (Chiasson) Lenoir a beaucoup de talent. Voilà maintenant de nouvelles chansons majoritairement en français, bien loin de la convaincante indie pop-folk du groupe anglo qu’il menait avec son frère.

“Qui c’est celui-là?” Many French asked themselves this question (“Who’s that guy?”) when the song bearing this title began to smash the hit parade in 1975. Some others already had parts of the answer: it’s the guy who sang “Amour amitié”! The guy who sang “La femme du sergent”! The guy who sang “Armand” in “Le Petit Conservatoire de Mireille”! To all those French, Vassiliu had always been reduced. Few were the real fans, who had explored all angles and taken the measure of the man.

L'Embellie is the fifth studio album recorded by French singer Calogero, and was released on 20 April 2009. The album was preceded by lead single "C'est dit," written by Jean-Jacques Goldman. For this album, Calogero asked many French singers and songwriters to compose the lyrics, including Dominique A, Dick Annegarn, Kent, Grand Corps Malade, Pierre Lapointe, Marc Lavoine, Pierre Pelù and Jean-Jacques Goldman. Calogero himself has written for the first time in his solo career a song text for "Je me suis trompé". Alana Filippi, who wrote "En apesanteur" seven years earlier, and Gioacchino, the singer's brother, also participated in the composing of the album. The album went straight to number one on the French and Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Charts.