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A barge moored
right downtown Paris... When
he is not touring around the
world, this is where you might
have a chance to meet Eric
Vincent, one of the best
French Singer-songwriter, in the
pure tradition of la Chanson
Française, in the line of Jacques
Brel, Claude Nougaro,
Georges Brassens,
Georges Moustaki... Eric
Vincent who began his career
in Paris at the cabaret Le Port du
Salut, with Coluche,
has a passion for taking his music
to every corner of the globe. He
has performed in more than 140
countries.
Born in Forcé
(Mayenne), Eric Vincent began
playing banjo and violin. After
years of classical studies, he
gets his first guitar, composes
his first songs and becomes the
guitarist of a local rock group,
then of a Jazz quartet. His main
passion remains to sing and his
only goal is to become a
professional singer. Winner of a
song-contest, he gets the award to
open a Jacques Brel concert
in Quiberon (Brittany). Jacques
Brel compliments the young
singer and encourages him to try
his luck in Paris. A few months
later, he decides to settle in the
capital where he is invited by France
Inter, for a live
performance, with Claude
Nougaro. Eric signs
his first contract with Eddie
Barclay, a Major French
record company and, to live, he
performs in cabarets rive gauche,
like Le Port du Salut. He
gets also gigs all around France,
by opening the shows of stars like
Johnny Hallyday, Charles
Aznavour, Gilbert Bécaud,
etc... A first record is released
and his songs are broadcasted on
the French radios.
A concert-tour in
the Indian Ocean Islands
(Madagascar, Mauritius, La
Réunion, les Comores...) turns out
to be such a success that he is
requested to come back, a few
months later... It's the beginning
of an amazing international
career... first, in the French
speaking countries, and soon,
everywhere in the world, proving
that there is no language barrier
for his songs. In France, we can
hear his songs on the radios and
see him on TV (Le Grand
Echiquier/Jacques
Chancel, Philippe
Bouvard, etc...).
Today, Eric
Vincent
is performing on the five
continents, from
the Opera of Hanoï (Vietnam) to
the Opera of Manaus (Brasil). In
the USA, where he is touring every
year, he has given concerts in
universities, high and middle
schools of every state (except
Hawaï and Alaska), as well as in
congresses (ACTFL, AATF,
MAFLA, etc...) He has filled,
several times, the Brooklyn
Auditorium in New-York, followed
by his Haitian fans, thanks to his
song Haïti Kimbe fo, a hit
in Haïti. Just before the terrible
hearthquake in Haïti, he was
in Jacmel, singing for 5000
persons, place Toussaint
Louverture, and in
Port-au-Prince, where a
crowd had filled the gardens
of the French Institute...
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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...
LP
Lula - CD
Survol
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| Eric's
appearances elicit
enthusiastic responses. The
language barrier is overcome
by his showmanship and by the
lively spirit of his music.
His songs, a blend of jazz,
rock and ethnic rhythms, flavored
by his world travels,offer
audiences direct contact with
contemporary French poetry and
modern music. Eric
exhibits an extraordinary
presence on stage, his
charisma dazzles his public.
With a beautiful voice, he is
personable and
dynamic and his universal
themes touch deeply the young
as much as adult people. He
has such an extraordinary
presence on stage. His
charisma dazzles everybody.
They always ask for an
encore... |
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
Eric VINCENT's
concerts leave us in a heightened
state of emotion. His electrifying
performance charges the
audience. His virtuosity, as a
guitar player, is impressive. His
style, personal and unique is
surprisingly sophisticated, but, in
no way, interferes with the warm and
relaxed atmosphere he creates. Even
when he performs a one man band
show, he makes us forget that he is
alone on stage
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"Eric Vincent's return to New York a success. His
Music is universal"
(NEW
YORK TIMES)
"Composotor francès
ultrapassa fronteiras da linguagem"
(DIARO
DA MANHA - BRAZIL)
"Music for a world
without borders"
(SINGAPOR
TIMES)
"Eric Vincent : Canciòn
sin barreras"
(CULTURA
- MEXICO CITY)
"French singer Eric
Vincent overcomes the language
barrier"
(BANGKOK
POST)
Faut
trois notes 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...
CD
Harmoniques
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Some
years ago, He has been involved in
the world-wide project Opération
Boule de neige, initiated by
school French children who
thought that violence on TV
was a very bad exemple. Eric
helped them to write the song
Jamais plus de violence, directed
it's recording and then, promoted
the project all around the world.
The program Sous les
Etoiles exactement on
the French National Radio (France
Inter) gave 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…
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Eric Vincent
is featured in
several textbooks:
Discovering French
Today: Blanc (Level 2)
by Valette and Valette
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©
2013),
SAM Contacts: Langue et
Culture Françaises, 9th
edition, by Valette
and Valette (Heinle Cengage, ©
2014)
C'est
Comme ça, by Valette
and Valette (D.C Heath and Co)
Sans
Bornes (Holt,
Rinehart and Winston)
Si on chantait
avec...Eric Vincent
(Hatier/Didier),
and in a video:
Reflets Français,
(Bernard Petit Prod), promoted
by AATF... |
The following Eric Vincent CDs
can be found on line at CD Baby:
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Faut-il
Encore 2000 Ans ?
recorded after his meeting with
James Taylor. This album
includes eight James Taylor
tunes written into French, by Eric Vincent.
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....L’or de
l’Instant (his last CD)
features the eponym
song, inspired by Albert
Camus (Le Mythe
de Sisyphe). Alfred
(Alfred Jarry), Les
bosses dans le Jardin (homage to Dino
Buzatti), Peinture
Hongroise (tribute
to the Hungarian painter Tivadar
Csontvary) and...
Etrange Mélancolie, written
with his friend Georges
Moustaki, is the last
music composed by the author of
Mylord and Le Métèque.
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Éric Vincent is published in:
Les Arrangeurs de la
chanson française Serge
Elhaïk (Editions Textuel © 2018)
Petit
abécédaire d'un amoureux de la chanson
Georges Moustaki (Éditions de
archipel-2012)
SAM Contacts: Langue et
Culture Françaises, 9th edition, by
Valette and Valette (Heinle Cengage ©
2014)
Discovering
French Today: Blanc (Level 2) by
Valette and Valette (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt ©2013)
La Chanson de
Paris Jean
Lapierre (Aumage editions)
Georges Moustaki
La Ballade Du Métèque
Louis-jean Calvet (Fayard/Chorus)
Îles
Centre Georges Pompidou (Gallimard)
J’aime Chéri Samba
Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain (Actes Sud)
Florilège
de la chanson de mer
Jacques Yvart (EMOM)
C'est
Comme
ça
by Valette and Valette (D.C Heath and
Co),
Sans Bornes
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
Reflets
Français (Bernard Petit
Prod.)
Si on chantait
avec... Eric VINCENT (Didier/Hatier)
On the Ricardo Vilas CD
Mon cher ami, featuring Bernard
Lavilliers, Francis Hime, Wagner
Tiso,
Anna Torres, Kay
Lyra... Eric sings in duet
with Ricardo the song Les mots en
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