Zazie was born on April 18, 1964 in Paris, France. She played the violin during 10 years & also played the guitar. She started composing songs & went to many records companies, then signed to Polygram and met Pascal Obispo. Her first album Je, Tu, Ils was a success and Zazie strated her career.
Live@Home is the first web music program created to allow the world's best artists to come and play their songs in a beautiful house. These intimate performances are recorded without an audience, aiming to make artists feel at home.
Born in 1988 in Quebec, Béatrice Martin started learning the piano at the age of three. When she was 14 years old the young girl gave up the piano during her adolescent crisis. She felt the instrument was too "bourgeois" and conventional and turned to writing her own songs reflecting on her adolescent worries, frustrations and rage which were typical of that time in life.
Author, composer, singer and producer, Gaëtan Roussel is hugely privileged to be among the highest sellers of albums in France, Thanks to the success brought about by Louise Attaque, and the first album in particular that sold more than three million copies.
Jean-Philippe Smet, better known as Johnny Hallyday, was born on 15 June 1943 in Paris. With a career spanning over more than fifty years, Johnny Hallyday remains one of the most famous francophone singers and one of the most present musical personalities in French Media from a "yeah yeah" idol to a true rock icon.
Michael Penniman was born on 18 August 1983 in Beirut, a town devastated by the war that his parents fled for Paris where as a child he learnt French for the 8 years he spent there. When his family settled in London, the disorientated adolescent found solace in listening to music. He imitated his idols Freddie Mercury (Queen), Elton John and Prince, learnt to play the piano, sung and wrote his first songs.
Born on 20 August 1979 in Romford (Essex) this young man grew up in Wiltshire. On the look out for all music styles, whether it was grunge, blues or rock, Jamie Cullum started learning the guitar at the age of 8. Shortly after, he took up singing and the piano. Accompanied by bass player Raph Mizraki and drummer Julian Jackson, the Jamie Cullum Trio was formed. They released their first self-produced album called, Heard It All Before. Alan Bates, the producer, took it without a second thought and released the album Pointless Nostalgic. Universal set their heart on the prodigy offering him a contract estimated at one million pounds, which is a record for a jazz artist.
Duffy embarked on the international scene with Rockferry, a debut album that sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide of which 700,000 were sold in France (also the highest sales in 2008 in Britain) and won a myriad of awards, including three BRIT Awards and one Grammy. Benefitting from Amy Winehouse's legacy with a return to a more soul/R&B sound inherited from the 60s-70s, Duffy made a comeback in 2010 with a second opus, "Endlessly", for which she totally changed the team.
Amongst Maroon 5's achievements several of their singles that have become hits around the world (This Love, She Will Be Loved, Harder to Breath, Sunday Morning, Makes Me Wonder), winning three Grammy Awards, and selling 15 million albums worldwide. The music by the Los Angeles quintet is a combination of rock, pop, funk and R&B, reaffirming the strengths within the group : light-hearted and unforgettable melodies, stylistic and elegant rhythms.
Nothing, is the title of the fourth studio album by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shae Haley -- who make up the trio of -- take a deep breath - musicians-producers-singers-songwriters-composers, known as N*E*R*D (No-one Ever Really Dies). Set up as a concept group, N*E*R*D was founded in Virginia Beach, birth place of three of the band's members, in 2000. Ten years later, the facts speak for themselves: the N*E*R*D musicians led by the charismatic Pharell Williams are unstoppable.
With worldwide sales in excess of 15 million units, Justin Bieber has dominated pop culture and social media for more than three years. He has over 43 million Facebook fans, more than 22 million Twitter followers, and over 2.9billion YouTube views. He is far and away the most popular YouTube artist of all time, and received the 2012 Billboard Music Award for Social Artist of the Year.
American recording artist, songwriter, entrepreneur, voice actor, DJ, record producer, and philanthropist, best known as one of the founding members of the hip hop/pop band, The Black Eyed Peas.
american band, based in Denver. They played folk-rock with an incredible enthusiasm, smiles and sincerity that catches like contagion and turns the casual or curious fans into die hards.
English singer-songwriter, instrumentalist whose music finds the balance between electro-pop and indie folk.
Gregory Porter is an American jazz vocalist born in Los Angeles, songwriter and actor. He is blessed with an incredible soul voice. He won the 2014 Grammy for best jazz vocal album, Liquid Spirit, his third album, released on the legendary Blue Note Records jazz label
Canadian jazz-pop singer best known as the vocalist for the Canadian anthem during the 2010 Olympic Winter Game. With her first performance at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2006 and a platinum certification for her debut studio ablum, sherapidly became one of the youngest and most talented vocalists emerging out of Canada.
American soul singer, composer and musician Aloe Blacc gathered global exposure following the release of his hit singles "I need a Dollar" (2011) and "The Man" (2014). His songwriting and singing skillswere also greatlyacknowledged as featured on leading DJ/Producer Avicii’s global hit ‘Wake Me Up’ (2013). Aloe Blacc has since 2006 released three studio albums which have all been critically acclaimed and positionnedhim as one of the most followed soul singers currently around.
OneRepublic has become one of the most influential pop/rock bands of its generation. With over 4.3 million digital downloads of its hit single ‘Stop and Stare’ in America, the song became one of the most downloaded track in the US and was platinium in multiple other countries.
With 15 Million units album sales and global tours, Diana Krall is definitely one of the most known jazz artists of her generation
