Olivier Minne is launched in the music – Gala

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Certainly, he has not finished surprising us! Author of a biography noticed on Louis Jourdan, the last French lover of Hollywood, the host of France 2’s evidence that his life is not confined to the small screen, once again…

This is a new activity that “Mr. Fort Boyard” gliding to his keychain. Animator, writer, actor and previously a producer for the television, the elusive Olivier Minne prodigal today his advice to a singer, Jean-François Varlet, announced on the scene of the European, at Paris, on 2 October next.

First concert that I produce! There are still a few seats for the concert’s unique #jeanfrancoisvarlet to discover the European on 2 October. First part with Muriel Laude. 10 invitations for 2 persons will be given to the first 10 to leave me a smiley face in the DM on my twitter account.

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Author-composer-interpreter of the original lyon, the artist, also a director, has made his scales on the piano from the age of 7 years, before going through the workshops of Michel Fugain, Nice, and the studios of Alice Donna, to Paris, where he subsequently was a professor. Coming from a line of painters, he writes and sings about love, absence, memories, keys of the impressionists. Musically, Jean-François Varlet evokes, while cultivating its uniqueness, William Sheller, or a Michel Berger.

Cast to be the leader of the Generation group, it has in particular paid tribute to George Brassens and Charles Trenet, in the 90s, encouraged in the pursuit of a career as a singer by the great Barbara itself.

His first encounter with Olivier Minne dates back to the year 1992. “He came to sing Brassens, with his Generation group, at Bobino, then at the Théâtre Marigny. We are a small group, to have convinced you to get back on stage “, continued the announcer that he was, meanwhile, entrusted the artistic direction of the piece A wire to the leg, which was broadcast on France 2 in 2005, but also the composition of an album for another artist, Charlotte Garnet, distributed by Universal Music Classic/ Jazz in 2010.

For its part, the new strong man of France 2 we thus justified its new activity as a music producer : ” music for me has always followed. Child and teen, I listened to as much classical music as singers such as Piaf, Jacques Brel, Barbara, Pierre Perret, Adamo, Michel Polnareff. A little later, I had my period disco, and then I have been sensitive to the work of Serge Gainsbourg, Véronique Sanson, Alain Chamfort. Today, I also listen to a well-Beth Hart, Jeff Buckley, Coldplay Vincent Delerm or Olivia Ruiz. “

Eclectic, you said eclectic…

Photo credits Visual / Grégory Juppin

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