Albin de la Simone
Acting
Biography
Albin de la Simone (born in Amiens, Picardy, France on 14 December 1970) is a French singer-songwriter. He has released five albums since 2003, being nominated to the 2018 Victoires de la Musique in the Best Song Album (Meilleur album de chansons) category and in 2014 in the Best Live Newcomers (Révélation scène) category. He has been working in music since the mid-1990s as a keyboardist, bassist, arranger, and director for a large number of artists, including Miossec, Vanessa Paradis, Keren Ann, Arthur H, Alain Souchon, Raphaël Haroche, Mathieu Boogaerts, Jean-Louis Aubert, and Salif Keita, among others. As an artist, his musical works are exhibited at Les Francofolies de La Rochelle, Philharmonie de Paris, and many other galleries and festivals. He is also associated with the Théâtre National de Bretagne. After studying art at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai (Belgium) and arrangement and orchestration at the Centre d'informations musicales (CIM) in Paris, Albin L'Eleu de la Simone started his career as composer and jazz pianist (his father being a New Orleans Jazz clarinetist) as a member of the band "The Barbecues." In 1995, he and his quintet were finalists in La_Défense_Jazz_Festival. Between 1995 and 2000, he toured in Africa with Salif Keita and Angélique Kidjo, and he began to feature on other French singers' tracks. Parallelly, de la Simone met the new singers of his generation (Mathieu Boogaerts, Matthieu Chedid, Arthur H, Nina Morato...) and found his calling. He wrote his first songs towards the end of the 1990s. In 2003, de la Simone performed his first concerts as singer in Japan, opening for Mathieu Boogaerts. In September, he released Albin de la Simone, his first album, on the label Virgin Records, co-directed with Renaud Letang. Of the album, "Elle aime", sung as a duet with Feist, and "Patricia," with Alain Souchon, became hits. He composed in part the soundtrack of the film Tiresia, directed by Bertrand Bonello. Source: Article "Albin de la Simone" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Victoires de la musique
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Les plus belles comptines d'Okoo
Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him. Do artists have an expiry date? Do we create our best works in our youth or, on the contrary, does experience allow us to develop a greater mastery of our medium? In this respect, are there important differences between the different forms of art such as music, cinema and literature?
Le cri du rhinocéros
After her parents’ passing, eight-year-old Violet goes to live with her uncle, Regis, a gruff maintenance worker at the Palace of Versailles. Despite a rocky start, Violet and Regis learn to live and face life’s challenges together. Through complex friendships, first loves and a Christmas trip to Violet’s grandparents, they slowly create a new life rich in discoveries and tender moments in the heart of Versailles.
My Life in Versailles – The Movie
A little boy hides in the toy section of a department store at night, where the toys come to life.
The Pink Soldier
Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transgender woman who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and receives the gift of telling the future.
Tiresia
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Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
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Messages personnels, Françoise Hardy par Sage - Hyper Weekend Festival 2024
November 2015. Violette's parents are killed in the Paris terror attacks. She is sent to live with her uncle, a gruff man she hardly knows, who is a caretaker at the Versailles chateau. Little does Violette realize that in this intimidating place she will find unexpected refuge and a new family.
My Life in Versailles
Musicians Sarah Murcia and Albinde la Simone revisit some of the decade's most memorable songs ("Vertigo de l'amour," "Marcia Baila," "Billie Jean," "Careless Whisper," "Like a Virgin," "In Between Days," "Take on Me," and "Ghostbusters"), with the collaboration of artists such as Dave, who surprises us with an inspired cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams." It is also an opportunity to pay a vibrant tribute to Alain Bashung and Fred Chichin (the late half of Les Rita Mitsouko), whose talent and originality illuminated these years of creative diversity.
Nighting Eighties – Les années 80 en 16 tubes
A leading figure in French music, Albin de la Simone revisits his repertoire alongside Jozef Dumoulin and Fabrice Moreau. These songs are waiting to be rediscovered through the lens of jazz at Jazz sous les Pommiers.
Albin de la Simone, Jozef Dumoulin & Fabrice Moreau @ Jazz sous les Pommiers 2026
Noel and his mother Michelle form a strange couple. They cannot live without one another but as soon as they get together the atmosphere becomes highly charged. Through long conversations and moments of silence, the exploration of a mother-son relationship in its most tragical as well as its most comical details.