QUELQU’UN M’A DIT

CARLA BRUNI
COMPOSITEURES: CARLA BRUNI & LEOS CARAX
PAYS: FRANCEXITALIE
ALBUM: QUELQU’UN M’A DIT
RECORD: NAÏVE RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK
ANNÉE: 2003
 
        Carla Gilberta Bruni TedeschiNote, née le 23 décembre 1967 à Turin, est une personnalité franco-italienne. Mannequin puis auteure-compositrice-interprète, elle est connue sous les noms de Carla Bruni, qu'elle continue à utiliser dans sa carrière artistique, et de Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, comme nom d'usage depuis son mariage en 2008 avec le président de la République française d’alors, Nicolas Sarkozy.
          Installée en France depuis l'âge de sept ans, elle mène une carrière de mannequin de 1987 a 1997, puis se reconvertit dans la musique. Elle écrit plusieurs titres sur l'album Si j'étais elle de Julien Clerc en 2000, puis sort son premier album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, en 2002. Elle remporte, deux ans plus tard, la Victoire de la musique de l'Artiste féminine de l’année. En 2007, elle sort son deuxième album, No Promises, puis Comme si de rien n'était l'année suivante. En 2013, elle sort son quatrième album, Little French Songs.
        Quelqu'un m'a dit est le premier album de la chanteuse franco-italienne et mannequin Carla Bruni. Produit et arrangé par Louis Bertignac, il est sorti en 2002.
On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose
Elles passent en un instant comme fanent les roses
On me dit que le temps qui glisse est un salaud
Que de nos chagrins il s'en fait des manteaux
Pourtant quelqu'un m'a dit
 
Que tu m'aimais encore
C'est quelqu'un qui m'a dit que tu m'aimais encore
Serait-ce possible alors?
 
On me dit que le destin se moque bien de nous
Qu'il ne nous donne rien et qu'il nous promet tout
Paraît que le bonheur est à portée de main
Alors on tend la main et on se retrouve fou
Pourtant quelqu'un m'a dit
 
Que tu m'aimais encore
C'est quelqu'un qui m'a dit que tu m'aimais encore
Serait-ce possible alors?
Serait-ce possible alors?
 
Mais qui est-ce qui m'a dit que toujours tu m'aimais?
Je ne me souviens plus c'était tard dans la nuit
J'entends encore la voix, mais je ne vois plus les traits
Il vous aime, c'est secret, lui dites pas que je vous l'ai dit
Tu vois quelqu'un m'a dit
 
Que tu m'aimais encore
Me l'a-t-on vraiment dit?
Que tu m'aimais encore
Serait-ce possible alors?
 
On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose
Elles passent en un instant comme fanent les roses
On me dit que le temps qui glisse est un salaud
Que de nos tristesses il s'en fait des manteaux
Pourtant quelqu'un m'a dit
 
Que tu m'aimais encore
C'est quelqu'un qui m'a dit que tu m'aimais encore
Serait-ce possible alors?

REMIND ME TO FORGET

KATIE MELUA
SONGWRITERS: LUKE POLASHNICK; KATIE MELUA & TIMOTHY HARRIES
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: ALBUM Nº 8
LABEL:BMG RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2020
 
        Ketevan "Katie" Melua(/ˈmɛluːə/; Georgian: ქეთევან "ქეთი" მელუა, IPA: [kʰɛtʰɛvɑn mɛluɑ]; born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian-British singer and songwriter. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of eight – first to Belfast, and then to London in 1999. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she became the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist.
       In November 2003, at the age of 19, Melua released her first album, Call Off the Search, which reached the top of the United Kingdom album charts and sold 1.8 million copies in its first five months of release. Her second album, Piece by Piece, was released in September 2005 and to date has gone platinum (one million units sold) four times. Melua released her third studio álbum Pictures in October 2007.
      According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2008, Melua had a fortune of £18 million, making her the seventh-richest British musician under the age of 30.
      Album Nº 8 is the eighth studio album by Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua. The album was released by BMG on 16 October 2020. The first single from the album, "A Love like That", was produced by Leo Abrahams and had its premiere on BBC Radio 2 on 30 June 2020. The second single, "Airtime", premiered on 24 July 2020.
           Melua started writing and recording the album when she was in the process of separating from her estranged husband, World Superbike racer James Toseland. “We are both perfectionists,” Melua stated. “So we both really wanted to ‘get it right’. But in the end, I think we both accepted it was over and decided to perfect the art of letting go. I looked to nature for support and saw the falling leaves as part of a beautiful cycle."
Might be going down in flames
The Ashes, the Silver Birches rain
Oh to leave the city shouting
The silent doubting
The rules are set and they feel so mean and binding
The leaves, they remind me to forget
 
At long tables, I sit and hear my name
And I see yours written high on who's to blame
It's so tempting to go out there
Feel unprotected
And then just say, "See, he left me naked"
The leaves, they remind me to forget
 
There's seven reasons why
And yours are different to mine
Then I watch them in the clouds dance
But I still can't tell who won
Another bed's gone from two to one
To one
 
Might be going down in flames
I feel your hand when the window says it's rain
Oh, you know but it's not real
Like the birds sing
Like the trees lean and the seas gleam
The leaves, they remind me to forget
The leaves, they remind me to forget.

HASTA MAÑANA

ABBA
SONGWRITERS: BJOERN K. ULVAEUS; BENNY GORAN BROR ANDERSON; STIG ERIC LEOPOLD ANDERSON & MARY MCCLUSKEY
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
ALBUM: WATERLOO
LABEL: SUNSHINE RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1974
 
          ABBA(/ˈæbə/AB-ə, Swedish:[ˈâbːa]) are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged in a chiastic pattern. Widely considered one of the greatest musical groups of all time, they became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1983. They have achieved 48 hit singles.
           In 1974, ABBA were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the contest. During the band's main active years, it consisted of two married couples: Fältskog and Ulvaeus, and Lyngstad and Andersson. With the increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered, which eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. The relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with latter compositions featuring darker and more introspective lyrics. After ABBA separated in 1982, Andersson and Ulvaeus continued their success writing music for multiple audiences including stage, musicals and movies, while Fältskog and Lyngstad pursued solo careers.
      Ten years after the group broke up, a compilation, ABBA Gold, was released, becoming a worldwide best-seller. In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into Mamma Mia!, a successful musical that toured worldwide. A film of the same name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. A sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, was released in 2018. That same year it was also announced the band after 35 years of being inactive had reunited and recorded two new songs for Voyage, their first studio album in 40 years, scheduled for release in 2021. A concert residency to support the Voyage album featuring ABBA as virtual avatars – dubbed 'ABBAtars' – will take place in London from May to October 2022.
            ABBA is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales estimated at 150 million records. and the group was ranked 3rd best-selling singles artists in the United Kingdom with a total of 11.3 million singles sold by 3 November 2012. ABBA was the first group from a non-English-speaking country to achieve consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They are the best-selling Swedish band of all time and one of the best-selling bands originating in continental Europe. ABBA had eight consecutive number-one albums in the UK. The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin America and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2015, their song "Dancing Queen" was inducted into the Recording Academy's Grammy Hall of Fame.
            "Hasta Mañana" (Spanish for "Until tomorrow") is the fourth track on Swedish pop group ABBA's second studio album, Waterloo. It was released in 1974 as the album's third and final single.
         Initially fearing that "Waterloo" might be too risky to enter for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, the group considered performing the ballad "Hasta Mañana" instead, as they thought that it was more in style with previous Eurovision winners. Eventually, they decided on "Waterloo", primarily because it featured Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad sharing lead vocals, whereas "Hasta Mañana" had Fältskog as the sole lead vocalist.
       The song was still known under its original working title "Who's Gonna Love You?" when the backing track was recorded. The lyrics were later written by Stig Anderson while on a Christmas holiday to the Canary Islands and dictated over the telephone.
         While the song was being recorded, they decided to give up on it at one point because none of them could sing it properly. Agnetha alone was in the studio and decided to play around with it. She felt if she could sing it in a Connie Francis style it would work — and it did.
           In Australia, "Hasta Mañana" was used as a B-side on the "So Long" single (which never charted). After being featured in the popular The Best of ABBA TV Special, broadcast in March 1976, the song was re-released and became a Top 20 hit in Australia and Top 10 hit in New Zealand.
         It reached number 2 on the charts in South Africa in November 1974.
Where is the spring and the summer
That once was yours and mine?
Where did it go?
I just don't know
But still my love for you will live forever
 
Hasta Mañana 'til we meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
Darling, our love was much too strong to die
We'll find a way to face a new tomorrow
Hasta Mañana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta Mañana, baby, Hasta Mañana, until then
 
Where is the dream we were dreaming
And all the nights we shared
Where did they go?
I just don't know
And I can't tell you just how much I miss you
Hasta Mañana 'til we meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
Darling, our love was much too strong to die
We'll find a way to face a new tomorrow
Hasta Mañana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta Mañana, baby, Hasta Mañana, until then
 
Hasta Mañana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta Mañana, baby, Hasta Mañana, until then.

J'ATTENDRAI!!!

DJANGO REINHARDT(GUITAR) & STÉPHANE GRAPELLI
COMPOSITEUR:
PAYS: BÉLGIQUE
ALBUM: SWING FROM PARIS
RECORD: FRÉMEAUX & ASSOCIÉS
GENRE: JAZZ MANOUCHE
ANNÉE: 1989
 
        Jean Reinhardt, plus connu sous le nom de Django Reinhardt, est un guitariste de jazz français né le 23 janvier 1910 à Liberchies—aujourd'hui une section de la commune de Pont-à-Celles— dans la région de Charleroi en Belgique, 3 et mort le 16 mai 1953 à Fontainebleau. Son style de jeu et de composition a été suivi d'adeptes, donnant naissance à un style de jazz à part entière, le jazz manouche.
      Issu d’une famille sinténote et communément appelée en France «manouche», il est encore aujourd’hui un des guitaristes les plus respectés et influents de l’histoire du jazz. Grièvement blessé dans l'incendie de as roulotte, il garde toute sa vie les séquelles de ses brûlures à la main gauche qui l'obligent à trouver une nouvelle technique et à jouer dans un style si particulier que ses adeptes des générations suivantes poussent l'idolâtrie jusqu'à s'entraver les doigts pour reproduire son infirmité et sa technique.
      Plusieurs de ses descendants sont devenus guitaristes: Lousson Reinhardt(en), son fils aîné issu d'un premier mariage (1929-1992), Babik Reinhardt, son second fils (1944-2001), et David Reinhardt, son petit-fils (fils de Babik), ainsi que Levis Adel-Baumgartner descendant de Lousson.