Create account Log in

Florent Pagny

[Edit]

Wikimp3 information about the music of Florent Pagny. On our website we have 59 albums and 70 collections of artist Florent Pagny. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Florent Pagny represents Pop genres.

Biography

[Edit]

Despite an unpredictable and often controversial career that included detours into opera, the chanson tradition, and feature films as well as myriad personal obstacles, Florent Pagny remained one of the biggest-selling recording artists in contemporary French pop for more than a quarter century. Born November 6, 1961, in Chalon-sur-Saône, Pagny was the product of a working-class background and spent the better part of his adolescence competing in local radio contests and amateur showcases. At 16 he quit school and relocated to Paris to pursue a career in music and theater, working a series of odd jobs before beginning vocal studies at the Conservatoire de Levallois-Perret. While moonlighting as a bartender Pagny befriended talent scout Dominique Besnard. Smitten with Pagny's wild, unkempt look, Besnard helped him land roles in the features La Balance and Alain Corneau's Fort Saganne, and the resulting attention also led to a record deal. Pagny issued his debut single, "N'Importe Quoi," in 1987. The anti-drug anthem proved a blockbuster success, selling in excess of one million copies and rocketing its singer to overnight superstardom. With the 1988 release of the follow-up, "Laisser Nous Respirer," Pagny solidified his image as an icon of youth rebellion and angst, although his third single, "Comme d'Habitude," unexpectedly resurrected Claude François' variété classic. Finally, in the spring of 1990 Pagny issued his first full-length LP, Merci. While music critics ridiculed his rebel stance and relationship with nubile pop sensation Vanessa Paradis, the record nevertheless proved a sizable hit, and early the following year he headlined a sold-out performance at Paris' Zénith.

After a return to his movie career, Pagny resumed his musical pursuits with 1992's Réaliste, a melancholy and disjointed effort recorded in the wake of his breakup with Paradis. The record sold poorly, and as the singer squandered his fortune on clothes, motorcycles, and partying, he sank into a depression that kept him out of the limelight for close to two years. Pagny resurfaced in 1994 with Rester Vrai, which introduced a newly modernized rock sensibility that restored his commercial luster. A year later, the best-of collection, Bienvenue Chez Moi, launched several new singles, most notably his smash cover of Lucio Dalla's operatic hit "Caruso." With the title cut from 1997's Savoir Aimer, Pagny returned to the top of the French singles chart and later won Best Male Artist of the Year honors at the annual Victoires de la Musique Awards. The sole French representative included at Luciano Pavarotti's all-star international charity concert in June 1998, Pagny returned to chart prominence later that year with the Erick Benzi-penned "Dors." In late 1999, he again defied conventional wisdom with Ré-Création, a collection of covers drawn from the French chanson idiom. Châtelet les Halle followed in late 2000, and a year later Pagny issued 2, a series of duets enlisting singers including Pascal Obispo and Axel Bauer. While 2003's Ailleurs Land was another best-seller, Pagny took a public thrashing in early 2004, when he was prosecuted for tax evasion. His next film, Quand Je Vois le Soleil, also flopped, but at year's end his career again flourished via Baryton, a set indulging his lifelong passion for opera. The chanson-inspired Abracadabra followed in the spring of 2006. In 2007 he released an album of Jacques Brel covers entitled Pagny Chante Brel which Pagny reworked classic songs in his own distinct style. Pagny returned in 2010 with his own record Tout et son Contraire and acoustic live release Ma Libert é de Chanter in 2012.

Title: Aime La Vie

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: World Music

Title: Ailleurs Land

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: Pop

Title: Ete 2003 A L'Olympia

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: Pop

Title: Master Serie

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: Pop

Title: Live

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: Pop

Title: Tout & Son Contraire

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: Pop

Title: 2bis

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: World Music

Title: L'avenir

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: World Music

Title: Habana

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: Latin, Pop

Title: 2

Artist: Florent Pagny

Genre: Pop

Collections

Title: Hits Rfm 2018 (CD2)

Genre: Pop

Featuring albums

Title: Polyphonies

Artist: I Muvrini

Genre: World Music

Title: Ici et ailleurs

Artist: NICOLETTA

Genre: World Music, Pop

Title: Toujours un ailleurs

Artist: Anggun

Genre: Pop

Title: Louder

Artist: Big Ali

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap

Title: En Duo

Artist: Lara Fabian

Genre: Pop

Title: Duos Inedits

Artist: Isabelle Boulay

Genre: Pop

Title: À 2 À 3

Artist: Vianney

Genre: Pop

Genres