La Bande à Renaud is a series of two tribute albums to French singer Renaud , consisting of songs of his performed by various other artists. The albums were released in June and October 2014, respectively.
19-525: Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan ( French pronunciation: [ʁəno pjɛʁ manɥɛl seʃɑ̃] ; born 11 May 1952 in Paris), known as Renaud, is a French singer-songwriter. With twenty-six albums to his credit, selling nearly twenty million copies, he is one of France's most popular singers. Several of his songs are popular classics in France, including the sea tale "Dès que le vent soufflera", the irreverent " Laisse béton ",
38-691: A Protestant Languedoc family from the Cévennes and Montpellier, was a novelist and children's writer. He taught German in a secondary school in Paris. The director Edmond Séchan is his uncle. His grandfather was the scholar and Hellenist Louis Séchan , who taught at the Sorbonne . His ancestors were pastors. His mother is the daughter of a coalminer from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. Renaud dedicated part of his work to his familial roots, singing traditional songs in
57-485: A couple of years. His column appeared again in 1995–1996, retitled Envoyé spécial chez moi . In 2006, he published Les Bobos , as a satire on the Parisian lower bourgeoisie. In 1993, he also played the leading part of Étienne Lantier in the film Germinal directed by Claude Berri . After an unproductive period marked by alcoholism, he made a significant comeback with his 2002 album Boucan d'enfer . That album's hit
76-399: A month) but the singer's feeble, often out-of-tune vocals caused some negative reviews. In 2014, a collective of 15 artists released a tribute album containing 14 tracks covers of his songs under the title La Bande à Renaud . On 26 January 2016, on his website, Renaud released "Toujours debout", the first track from his new studio album yet to be released. On the same day, he announced on
95-447: The 14th arrondissement of Paris with his paternal grandparents in a building reserved for teachers by the RIVP . Among seven people, they shared two rooms. Soon his family was able to move to a large apartment, with his father being a teacher and his grandfather being a celebrated academic. Between ten and twelve years old, he wrote novels on his father's typewriter and discovered Yé-yé and
114-470: The Beatles . In August 2005, Renaud married Romane Serda, the mother of his son Malone. In 2007, he announced to the press his intention to move his family to London, citing a love for British society and expressing disillusionment at the current state of France. In 2009 Renaud's daughter, writer Lolita Séchan , married French acoustic singer-songwriter Renan Luce . In September 2011, Romane divorced Renaud on
133-680: The French public radio station France Inter the title of his new studio album: Toujours debout . The video "Toujours debout" was released on 26 February 2016. On 8 April 2016, Renaud released a studio album, Toujours debout but oddly sold under the simple title Renaud . Renaud was born at 03:30 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , ten minutes after his brother David. His mother chose the name Renaud because her mother and grandmother would sing La complainte du Roi Renaud (The Lament of King Renaud) to her, and she found it so sad that she would cry each time she heard it. His father Olivier Séchan , born to
152-480: The French-speaking world. He also appeared in several films, including Claude Berri 's adaptation of Germinal in 1993. Although his political stance has provoked controversy, he has nicknamed himself "le chanteur énervant" (the irritating singer), due to his many commitments to causes such as human rights, ecology, and anti-militarism, which are frequently reflected in his songs. Fresh out of school, Renaud
171-655: The SNEP French Singles Chart and in Ultratop Belgian (Wallonia) Charts. Another official single was the collective singing "Dès que le vent soufflera". It charted in France and appeared in Belgium's Ultratipchart . Many other tracks appeared briefly in the SNEP charts. The album shows photos of artists photographed by Barbara d'Alessandri wearing a red bandana , Renaud's signature paraphernalia. The album cover also shows
190-446: The account of his alcoholism and depression. (Selective) Laisse b%C3%A9ton French singer-songwriter Renaud 's second unnamed studio album is commonly known as Laisse béton , although it is sometimes referred to as Place de ma mob after the wall inscription on the album cover. It was released in 1977 by Polydor Records . The title is verlan for "laisse tomber" ("drop it, forget about it", lit. "let it fall"), from
209-507: The ballad " Morgane de toi " and the nostalgic " Mistral gagnant ". His songs, with their slang lyrics and idiosyncratic Parisian phrasing, deal with both light and serious themes, alternating humor, emotion, and social criticism. Although he enjoyed great success in France in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, his career took a roller-coaster ride thereafter, with the singer regularly falling victim to depression and alcoholism, ailments he recounts in various songs. His work remains little known outside
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#1732851412644228-515: The first song on the album. All songs were written by Renaud Séchan except where noted. Tracks 1 and 3 were included on the compilation The Meilleur of Renaud (75–85) . Track 1 was also included on the CD Ma Compil . Tracks 1, 4 and 5 were covered for the tribute album La Bande à Renaud . This 1970s rock album–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . La Bande %C3%A0 Renaud The initial album
247-546: The police, with rare glimpses of tenderness for his fellow humans, the planet earth, and art. In 1985, in a concert in Moscow, in what was an orchestrated gesture, roughly one third of the spectators upped and left the concert hall when he sang the anti-militarist "Déserteur". In the late 1980s and the 1990s, Renaud's work was distinguished by "softer" subjects such as his then-wife Dominique, his daughter Lolita and his friends, as well as comedian and singer Coluche for whom he wrote
266-478: The regional Picard language and playing the part of Étienne Lantier in Germinal , a film based on the famous Émile Zola novel. He is the sixth of eight children born to his father. He has two brothers: David, his fraternal twin , and the writer Thierry Sechan , as well as two sisters. He also has two half-sisters and a half-brother, children of his father and his first wife. During his childhood, Renaud lived in
285-415: The son of an intellectual, Renaud adopted the looks and attitude of working-class youth in the 1970s, and reflected this in his lyrics. A recurrent theme is his disgust for the average French person with petit-bourgeois preoccupations and right-wing leanings (see beauf ). His music focuses on the disparity between classes, the abuse of political power, overbearing authority and disgust for the military and
304-484: The tribute " Putain de camion " ("Bloody Lorry") after Coluche's death in a road accident. He has also ventured into regional music and language, such as the language of Marseille in La Belle de Mai , the north with Renaud cante el' Nord and even Corsican polyphonics in "Lolito lolita". In 1992, he financially helped resurrect the defunct satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and wrote a column titled Renaud bille en tête for
323-493: Was " Manhattan-Kaboul ", a duo with Axelle Red which tackled current issues by drawing a parallel between a victim of the 9-11 attacks in New York and an Afghan girl, both caught up in a war they don't understand. In 2009 Renaud released Molly Malone – Balade irlandaise , an album of Irish ballads. Produced by ex- Boomtown Rats bassist Pete Briquette , the album was commercially successful (certified double-platinum in just over
342-408: Was determined to become an actor. By chance he met the actor Patrick Dewaere and was invited to join the company of the comedy theatre Café de la Gare , which had recently been founded by Patrick Dewaere , Coluche , and Miou-Miou . His early work is characterized by a volatile temperament, innovative use of French, and edgy, dark, leftist social and political themes. Raised in an educated milieu,
361-471: Was released on Mercury / Universal Music containing 14 songs interpreted by 15 artists. The musical project was supervised by Renaud himself, assisted by Dominique Blanc-Francard and Alain Lanty . It reached the top of SNEP , the official French Albums Chart in its first week of release. There were two official released singles from the single. The track "Mistral gagnant" was a major release single that appeared in
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