Axelle Renoir
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Axelle Renoir is a French
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...

 singer from Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

. She has released three studio albums and composed the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 of two French films.

Biography and career

Axelle Renoir was born in 1969 in Josselin
Josselin
Josselin is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.-History:St Meriadek is said to have founded a chapel there during the 4th century...

. As a teenager, she studied at the Conservatoire de Rennes
Rennes
Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...

 for three years. She entered a competition organized by the television channel M6  and won the first prize of the new Talents M6.

She then signed her first album with Warner
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...

 in 1995, Magnum mornings and dancing, which she composed all the music but almost no lyrics. The album is accompanied by the single Lulu and the album sold 30,000 copies. That same year, she performed a duet on the radio with Nicola Sirkis
Nicola Sirkis
Nicola Sirkis Nicola Sirkis Nicola Sirkis (born 22 June 1959 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, is the frontman and singer of the French rock band Indochine. He is the only remaining member of the original line-up of the band which he formed in 1981 with a friend, Dominique Nicolas, soon to be joined by...

's group Indochina
Indochine (band)
Indochine is a French new wave/rock band, formed in 1981. The band was very successful in France in the 1980s, as well as other parts of continental Europe and Latin America, with songs like L'Aventurier and Canary Bay...

, "God is a Havana smoker" (Gainsbourg Deneuve and recovery).

A second single appeared, The court Big, followed by silence, I turn around. A tour was organized in France via Paris, and in 1996 she was nominated for Victoires de la Musique
Victoires de la Musique
Victoires de la musique , is an annual French award ceremony that recognizes the best musical artists of the year.- Male artist of the year :*1985 : Michel Jonasz*1986 : Jean-Jacques Goldman*1987 : Johnny Hallyday...

 as Newcomer of the Year, but StephenD won the prize.

Two years later, in 1998, she released her second album, Rose, which she composed music and wrote the vast majority of the lyrics, accompanied by the author Sylvie Bonnet and some lyricss of Janco's.

Three singles are any excerpts:Under the Boysshorts,Thirteen July under the Moon Girlsandair.

In 1999, she initiated and participated in the drive against AIDS Together, and wrote the title guests, she sings in duet with Alain Souchon.

In 2000 she made an "electronic symphony" for the show in 2000 in Nîmes, created by Enki Bilal and Stéphane Plassier devoted to the opening of 2000.

She composed songs in the 2001 film Pretty Things
Pretty Things
The Pretty Things are an English rock and roll band from London, who originally formed in 1963. They took their name from Bo Diddley's 1955 song "Pretty Thing" and, in their early days, were dubbed by the British press the "uglier cousins of the Rolling Stones". Their most commercially successful...

and appears ten minutes into the movie, in the role of a critical press. The record sold 55,000 copies.

The following year, she composed the music for the filmGangstersOliver Marshall and the songGo.

In May 2003 she released her third studio album, calledThe Beach. A single was released:I'll be there for yousong pop / rock sugar, which sold less than 10,000 copies. She performs in concert at the European (Paris) May 13, and is the first part of concerts Etienne Daho
Étienne Daho
Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.- Career :...

 and Luz Casal
Luz Casal
Luz Casal, born November 11, 1958 at Boimorto, is a Spanish pop singer. She grew up in neighbouring Asturias, took singing, piano and ballet classes, and moved to Madrid to pursue a career as a musician....

. On the album, singsAlain Souchon Under Boysshorts, in a new pop version, and Marion Cotillard provides backing vocals on the titleGo. Two more singles are excerpts:In LoveandUnder Shorts Boys.

In 2004 she composed the soundtrack of Oliver Marshall36 Quai des silversmiths.

In 2005 she produced and co-produced the album Luka.

In 2007, in accordance with Nicolas Hulot
Nicolas Hulot
Nicolas Hulot is the founder and president of the Fondation Nicolas-Hulot, an environmental group first created in 1990....

, it composes an album UshuaiaNatureon the preservation of nature.

In 2009, she made the cover album of Sarah Mac Lachlan played by Thierry Amiel.

She has also composed for television generic (coffeeCaptain,Le destin de Lisa,'Behind the economy,etc.)..

Singles

  • 1995 -Lulu
  • 1995 -The Great Court
  • 1996 -Silence,I turned
  • 1998 -Under theshorts boys
  • 1998 -The daughters of the air
  • 1998 -ThirteenJuly under the Moon
  • 2001 -Beautiful Thing
  • 2002 -Go
  • 2003 -I'll be there for you
  • 2003 -In Love
  • 2004 -Under Shorts Boys(with Alain Souchon)

Other records

  • 1995 -Garden Party
  • 1999 -Together against AIDS
  • 2001 - B.O ofBeautiful Thing
  • 2002 -Gangstersof B.O
  • 2007 - Ushuaia Nature'

Other information

Axel has composed music forArather than a day for Lauren FaureandIf one left for Elisa Tovati
Elisa Tovati
Elisa Tovati born Elisa Touati is a French singer and television celebrity.- Early years :Elisa Tovati was born in 1976 of Russo-Moroccan Jewish origins in Paris, France. She showed interest in theatre early in her life, and her teenage years saw her co-presenting a French programme Y'a pas d'lézard...

.

She wrote lyrics for the album Luka and wrote some songs for the second album Thierry Amiel
Thierry Amiel
Thierry Amiel is a French singer and songwriter from Marseille, France. He rose to fame after coming in second place to Jonatan Cerrada on the first edition of the French 'Pop Idol', À la Recherche de la Nouvelle Star.-Biography:...

.

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