Category: Music

59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees

The Recording Academy has just released its list of nominees for the 2017 Grammy Awards Ceremony, to be held next February in Los Angeles. The 2017 is, once again, very strong with nominations of French artists and labels, notably with Jean-Michel Jarre nominated in an electro category, Gojira nominated in two rock categories, and a legion of nominations for the label Harmonia Mundi and its imprints.

 

Head to GRAMMY.com for the latest Recording Academy news on GRAMMY nominees and winners.

Source: 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees | GRAMMY.com

For Christine and the Queens, the arrival of Marine Le Pen in power would be “a disaster”

Interviewed by a British magazine, the singer recently nominated to the Brit Awards expressed her concern about the possibility of a victory of the president of the National Front in the presidential election next May.New darling of the British public since his appointment surprised the Brit Awards alongside Beyoncé, Solange, Sia and Rihanna (no less!), Christine and the Queens, aka Héloïsse Tissier, 28, confided on March 3 the English magazine Evening Standard . The opportunity for British readers to discover the extraordinary course of this young girl from Normale Sup to Mrs. Jojo’s , from the French university to the cabarets queers of London.If Heloise’s progressive moult in “Christine”, her conquest of an identity emancipated from any form of gendered categorization are at the heart of this conversation-river, the young woman also expresses itself at length on political news, confiding in particular Its concern at the rise of populism, in France as in Great Britain or in the United States [ . . . ]

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Grand Corps Malade films his joyous ordeal in “Patients”

Slameur, Grand Corps Malade adapts his autobiographical novel “Patients” with Mehdi Idir, which is also the first realization. Given the subject and talent of the slammer, the film is rather identified and little is known about the contribution of his partner. The result is none the less astonishing of justness, funny, romantic, on a subject that hardly lends itself to it: hospitalization [ . . . ]

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Chanson Du Jour: Ima

I am listening to a lot of Yael Naim of late, and I was excited to find this video of Yael performing with New Orleans-based cellist (playing the banjo here)  Leyla McCalla, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. I love this tune – the only song on Naim’s album “Older” where she sings in Hebrew. Naim was born in Paris in 1978. When she was 4, her family immigrated to Israel and settled in Ramat Hasharon. In May 2004, she decided to settle permanently in Paris.

Chanson Du Jour: Yael Naim with Leyla McCalla – “Ima” 

Chanson Du Jour: Little Darlin

Chanson Du Jour: Benjamin Biolay “Little Darlin”

Beneath Benjamin Biolay’s Gainsbourg-inspired whisper, the artist samples from The Carter Family’s “Little Darlin, Pal of Mine.” The Carter Family were the very first vocal group to become country music stars in America – so how cool is this? Très!

I really like Biolay. And he’s the only guy in the world who had an affair with Carla Bruni, but maybe wished he had the affair with his ex- Mother-in-Law (Catherine Deneuve.) Of course, none of this is my affair!