Category: Culture

The Gabriel Yared story from humble beginnings to a Hollywood ending

The celebrated French-Lebanese film composer was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival on December 7.

Gabriel Yared begins every day the same way. He gets up, and reaches for a Bach score, burying his head in the baroque master’s music.

“Why do I do this? I put a ceiling of perfection and beauty over my day, and every day is the same to me – trying to reach beauty,” says the celebrated French-Lebanese film composer, who was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival on December 7.

“But I still have a lot to learn. I’m very happy with an award, but it won’t change my doubts. I’m always doubting myself.”

The idea that Yared – a 67-year-old Academy Award-winner with more than 100 movie credits, who has scored films for directors as diverse as Jean-Luc Godard and Continue reading “The Gabriel Yared story from humble beginnings to a Hollywood ending” →

Seu Jorge tour Tribute to David Bowie will pass through Paris in May

We dreamed, we heard: Seu Jorge will perform in Paris in 2017 as part of his stage tribute to David Bowie. Always on tour in North America, the singer-guitarist-pop sambiste crosses the Atlantic in 2017 in order to present the program loaded in emotion. He will play May 31, 2017 at the Olympia.

Since early November, Seu Jorge , 46, runs the North American continent – the United States and Canada – to present, alone on stage, her repertoire of Portuguese adaptations of classic David Bowie, disappeared on January 10, 2016. A book he released in 2004 in the offbeat comedy “the Life aquatic” by Wes Anderson, a film very loosely based on the adventures of commander Cousteau … During filming, he had sung in the conditons of live. Continue reading “Seu Jorge tour Tribute to David Bowie will pass through Paris in May” →