Concert: Bertrand Belin

Bertrand Belin enhances the French music scene. Everyone agrees that his last album, Parcs, is a success. Bucolic wanderings within hearing, his sophisticated lyrics are improved by cut out words. The effective fragility of his lyrical texts creates an addictive melancholy. The singer captivates, shaped with his deep voice – which has more than once compared him to Alain Bashung. Parcs makes way for a much brighter album than his last one, Hypernuit, differing from its darkness. But a lightness that does not give away Bertrand Belin’s schemer personality.

Bertrand Belin is born in France in 1970. In 1989, he meets the Canadian band Stompin' Crawfish, with whom he tours for 6 years and participates in two albums. In 1996, he collaborates with the English band Sons of the desert for the album Greedy, followed by the album Goodnight noises everywhere. In 1998, he becomes Néry’s guitar player. Together, they are going to perform around France, Switzerland and Québec. Two albums would come out of this collaboration: La vie c’est de la viande qui pense, and Vol libre. Soon enough, he starts his own band, Les enfants des autres, for whom he composes most of the songs. In 2003, further to a trip to Cuba where he plays with Cuban musicians, he produces his first five-titles album and wins the « Tremplin Starting Rock » award – the new talent section of the Chorus des Hauts-de-Seine festival. In 2005, he finally produces his first own album, Bertrand Belin. In the mean time, he composes for leading singers such as Olivia Ruiz and regularly collaborates with Bénabar. His second album, La perdue, is released in 2007. Alongside his career as a singer-songwriter, he also composes music for films and shows such as Avec Marinette by Blandine Lenoir – awarded best music at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival in 1999. In 2010, he releases his third album, Hypernuit, awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the Académie Charles-Cros.



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