Pascal Obispo
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Pascal Michel Obispo is a French singer/songwriter.
Pascal Obispo started singing in 1980. He got his first record deal in 1990, Le long du fleuve. With his second album, Plus que tout au monde, selling over 2 million albums, his songs became a popular success. Some of his most famous songs are "Plus que tout au monde", "Laurelenn", "Tombé pour elle", "L'important c'est d'aimer", "Personne" and "Fan
". With his 2007 release of Les Fleurs du Bien (a play on Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
) he makes allusions to Rosa Parks
, Pablo Picasso
and others. He is also well known for his various escapades, his unconservative behavior, his haircut, etc. His name is an anagram of painter Pablo Picasso
's name.
Most of his albums have now sold more than 1 million copies.
Obispo used his popularity to help with humanitarian work and particularly with work to stop the AIDS epidemic. He has worked with many other well-known artists such as Jean-Jacques Goldman
, Florent Pagny
, Johnny Hallyday
, Patricia Kaas
, Amel Bent
, and Natasha St-Pier
.
Pascal Obispo started singing in 1980. He got his first record deal in 1990, Le long du fleuve. With his second album, Plus que tout au monde, selling over 2 million albums, his songs became a popular success. Some of his most famous songs are "Plus que tout au monde", "Laurelenn", "Tombé pour elle", "L'important c'est d'aimer", "Personne" and "Fan
Fan (song)
"Fan" is a 2003 song recorded by French singer and composer Pascal Obispo. Written by Lionel Florence who had previously worked for many notable artists, the song is a tribute to great artists, particularly Michel Polnareff...
". With his 2007 release of Les Fleurs du Bien (a play on Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 , it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements...
) he makes allusions to Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement"....
, Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
and others. He is also well known for his various escapades, his unconservative behavior, his haircut, etc. His name is an anagram of painter Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
's name.
Most of his albums have now sold more than 1 million copies.
Obispo used his popularity to help with humanitarian work and particularly with work to stop the AIDS epidemic. He has worked with many other well-known artists such as Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...
, Florent Pagny
Florent Pagny
Florent Pagny is a French musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records work in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include "N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" and "Caruso" .As of 2008, he has sold 4,268,980 copies of singles,...
, Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by some to have been the French Elvis Presley. He was married for 15 years to one of the most popular French female singers: Sylvie Vartan...
, Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...
, Amel Bent
Amel Bent
Amel Bent is a French singer.- Biography :Amel Bent grew up in the French commune of La Courneuve with her Algerian father and a Moroccan mother. She has a brother and a sister...
, and Natasha St-Pier
Natasha St-Pier
Natasha St Pier is a Canadian pop singer.-Career:Natasha St Pier released her first album, Émergence, in 1996, produced by composer/producer Steve Barakatt...
.
Albums
- Le long du fleuve (1990)
- Plus Que Tout au Monde (1992)
- Un Jour Comme Aujourd'hui (1994)
- Superflu (1997)
- Live 98 (1998)
- Soledad (1999)
- Millésime Live 00/01 (2001)
- Studio Fan – Live Fan (2004)
- Les Fleurs du Bien (2006)
- Les Fleurs de forest(live)(2007)
- Welcome to the Magic World of Captain Samourai Flower (2009)
Musicals
- Les Dix Commandements (2000) – Music: Pascal Obispo, Book and Lyrics: Lionel Florence and Patrice Guirao
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||
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| FR France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
BE Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... |
CH Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
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| 1992 | "Plus que tout au monde" | 33 | — | — | Plus que tout au monde | ||||||||||
| 1993 | "Tu vas me manquer (les mains qui se cherchent)" | 16 | — | — | |||||||||||
| 1995 | "Tombé pour elle" | 12 | 37 | — | Un jour comme aujourd'hui | ||||||||||
| 1996 | "Tu compliques tout" | 21 | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Personne" | 9 | 26 | — | Superflu | |||||||||||
| 1997 | "Il faut du temps" | 40 | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Lucie" | 6 | 14 | — | ||||||||||||
| "Les meilleurs ennemis" (with Zazie Zazie Zazie is a French singer and songwriter. Zazie co-produces all her albums.-Early life:... ) |
39 | 20 | — | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | "Assassine" | 18 | 14 | — | Live 98 | ||||||||||
| "Tombé pour elle (Live)" | 80 | 40 | — | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | "L'important c'est d'aimer" | 32 | 12 | — | Soledad | ||||||||||
| 2001 | "Pas besoin de regrets" | 43 | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Ce qu'on voit, allée Rimbaud" | 29 | 26 | — | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | "Millésime" | 3 | 2 | — | Millésime Live 00/01 | ||||||||||
| "So Many Men" (with Youssou N'Dour Youssou N'Dour Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music... ) |
35 | 27 | 85 | Nothing's In Vain (Coono Du Réér) | |||||||||||
| 2003 | "Fan Fan (song) "Fan" is a 2003 song recorded by French singer and composer Pascal Obispo. Written by Lionel Florence who had previously worked for many notable artists, the song is a tribute to great artists, particularly Michel Polnareff... " |
1 | 1 | 15 | Studio Fan – Live Fan | ||||||||||
| "Zinedine" | 8 | 4 | 53 | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | "Mourir demain Mourir demain "Mourir demain" is the name of a 2003 song recorded by the Canadian artist Natasha St-Pier. She performed the song as a duet with the French singer Pascal Obispo. It was released on 18 June 2004, as the second single from St-Pier's fourth studio album, L'Instant d'après, on which it features as... " (with Natasha St-Pier Natasha St-Pier Natasha St Pier is a Canadian pop singer.-Career:Natasha St Pier released her first album, Émergence, in 1996, produced by composer/producer Steve Barakatt... ) |
7 | 4 | 18 | L'Instant d'après L'Instant d'après L'Instant d'après is the fourth studio album recorded by the Canadian singer Natasha St-Pier. It was released in 2003 and met success in many countries, including France where it reached #3.- Track listing :# "Tant que c'est toi" — 6:24... |
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| "Y'a pas un homme qui soit né pour ça" (with Florent Pagny Florent Pagny Florent Pagny is a French musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records work in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include "N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" and "Caruso" .As of 2008, he has sold 4,268,980 copies of singles,... & Calogero Calogero Calogero is a French singer.-Early years:By the age of six, Calogero had already taken an interest in music... ) |
20 | — | 45 | / | |||||||||||
| 2006 | "1980" (with Melissa Mars Melissa Mars - Biography :Born in Marseilles, France, Melissa Mars began acting at the age of thirteen, at the Chocolat theater. Two years later, she began taking singing lessons.... ) |
5 | 3 | 43 | Les Fleurs du bien | ||||||||||
| 2007 | "Les fleurs du bien" | 18 | 32 | — | |||||||||||
| "Nouveau voyage (C'est la vie)" (feat. Baby Bash Baby Bash Ronnie Ray Bryant , better known by his stage name Baby Bash , is a Mexican-American rapper. From 1995 to 1998, he performed under the stage name Baby Beesh, as part of the Vallejo, California group Potna Duece, after which he changed the last part of the name to Bash... ) |
— | 10 | — | Les Fleurs de Forest | |||||||||||
| 2009 | "Le drapeau" | 6 | 7 | — | Welcome to the Magic World of Captain Samouraï Flower | ||||||||||
| "Idéaliste" | — | 18 | — | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | "La valse des regrets" | ||||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||||||||||||||
External links
Official website- Biography of Pascal Obispo, from Radio France InternationaleRadio France InternationaleRadio France Internationale was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France, and replaced the Poste Colonial , Paris Mondial , Radio Paris , RTF Radio Paris and ORTF Radio Paris...