Yann Benoist

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Yann Benoist
File:Yann Benoist.jpg
Mergithur Studio 2008 Paris
Background information
Born (1951-02-06) 6 February 1951 (age 73)
Dinan, France
Genres
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1969-present
Website www.yannbenoist.net

Yann Benoist (born 6 February 1951) is a French session guitarist, performer, composer,conductor, and arranger.

Early life

Yann Benoist was born in Dinan, Brittany. At 8 his parents enrolled him to the music academy . Then they bought him his first guitar when he was eleven and he started learning to play with friends and different teachers .

Career

When he was 18 he started playing and singing with some local bands in Brittany and Normandy. During 1975 he worked with the Switzerland duet Richard et Samuel.[1] The year after he started learning for a while with Pierre Cullaz[2] ( famous sessionman from the sixties ) in Paris. By the end of seventies he was a member of the Francis Bourrec quartet, They won the first prize at the Festival de Jazz de La Défense)[3] in 1978. That same year he got a Certificate from the Berklee College of Music.[4] Since then he has worked on stage or sessions for commercials,[5][6][7][8][9] TV movies,[10][11] TV shows,[12] , Music comedy[13] and with numerous French stars such as Renaud, Gilbert Becaud, Serge Lama, Patricia Kaas, Mireille Mathieu, Richard Bohringer,Jean Guidoni, Sylvie Vartan, Sheila (singer), Hugues Aufray, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Julien Clerc, Patrick Hernandez,Nancy Holloway, Sacha Distel,Murray Head ,Maurane, Marie Myriam, Francis Cabrel, Smain, Dorothée, Gilles Servat, William Sheller ,Jacques Loussier, Michel Legrand etc. .

In 1983 he was a member of Space,[14] with Didier Marouani, for the first big tour organized in the USSR. They performed 21 concerts in Moscow Olympic Stadium (Moscow), Leningrad Saint-Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex and Kiev Palace of Sports, Kiev for about 600,000 people, and in 1992 they performed the first concert authorized on the Red Square in Moscow for 360,000 people.

In 1989 and 2002 He was musical director for Shiela on Olympia (Paris).In 2011 He was Conductor for Joel Prevost on Alhambra (Paris).

He is a composer for APM Music and Universal Publishing .

Selective Discography

As a Leader

  • 1987 ""Bye Bye Femme""[15]
  • 1997 ""Rainbowcity""[16]
  • 2003 ""Décalage""[17]

As a Sideman

File:Didier Marouani,Yann Benoist,Bunny Rizzitelli (Space Moscou 1983).jpg
Didier Marouani,Yann Benoist,Bunny Rizzitelli (Space Moscou 1983)
File:Sheila Yann Benoist Olympia 1999.jpg
Sheila Yann Benoist Olympia 1999
File:Paris-France-Transit Moscou Place rouge 1983.jpg
Paris-France-Transit Moscou Place rouge 1983

Videos

File:Renaud , J L Roques , Yann Benoist "Zénith 1986"Paris.jpg
Renaud, J L Roques, Yann Benoist "Zénith 1986"Paris

DVD's

As a Leader

As a sideman

Composer

File:Gilbert Becaud Yann Benoist Studio Musika 1997.jpg
Gilbert Becaud Yann Benoist Studio Musika 1997
  • 1983 Alliance (Tabata Music)(Various Composer)
  • 1987 Bye bye femme (CFD)
  • 1997 Rainbowcity (Night and Day)

including  : Gilbert Bécaud B+B(je t'appartiens) Composer Yann Benoist Lyrics Pierre Delanoë / Manny Curtis

  • 2001 Serge Lama " Feuilles à feuilles" (Various composer)
  • 2005 Décalage (Sobridis musique)
  • 2006 RockAnd Roll Comedy (UPPM) (Various Composer)
  • 2007 French Songs Universal Publishing (UPPM)
  • 2009 Rock And Roll Comedy 2(UPPM)(Various Composer)
  • 2010 Funk Addict APM Music
  • 2012 Indie Rock Session (KAPAGAMA)

Movie TV Score

  • 1979 Les Joyeuses Colonies de vacances[28]
  • 1990 Envoyé Spécial
  • 1992 Les Taupes-Niveaux
  • 1994 Jeanne[29]
  • 1996 La Guerre Des Poux[30]

Bibliography

References

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