Cécile Corbel
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Cécile Corbel is a French-Brettone singer and harper. She has released four albums of original music and worked for Studio Ghibli
as a composer
for their 2010 film, The Borrower Arrietty
. Corbel sings in many languages including French
, Breton
and English
and has done songs in Irish
, Turkish
and Japanese
.
Studio Ghibli
is a Japanese animation and film studio founded in June 1985. The company's logo features the character Totoro from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro...
as a composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
for their 2010 film, The Borrower Arrietty
The Borrower Arrietty
The Secret World of Arrietty, known in Japan as and in the UK as Arrietty, is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film based on Mary Norton's juvenile fantasy novel The Borrowers...
. Corbel sings in many languages including French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Breton
Breton language
Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and has done songs in Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
, Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
.
Albums
- 2005: Harpe Celtique et Chants du Monde (Keltia)
- 2006: Songbook 1 (Keltia)
- 2008: Songbook Vol. 2 (Keltia)
- 2009: Anne de Bretagne (2 CDs)
- 2010: Arrietty's Song (CD single)
- 2010: Kari-gurashi (additional and alternative The Borrower Arrietty songs)
- 2010: The Borrower Arrietty Soundtrack
- 2010: Le Coffret (Keltia, 3-CD box set)
- 2010: Renaissance: Songbook Vol. 3 (Keltia)