THE BIRDS THEY PUT IN CAGES
TINA ARENA & GAROU
SONGWRITERS: WILL JENNINGS; LUC PLAMONDON &
RICCARDO COCCIANTE
COUNTRYS: AUSTRALIA & CANADA
ALBUM: Notre Dame de Paris
LABEL: GUINESS WORLD RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1999
Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena AM(born
1 November 1967) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre
actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists
and has sold over 10 million records worldwide. Arena is multilingual, singing
and recording in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
Arena has earned several international and
national awards, including a BRIT Award, seven ARIA Awards and two World Music Awards for Best-selling Australian Artist(1996, 2000). In 2001, she was
awarded a BMI Foundation Songwriting Award(Broadcast Music Inc) by the American performance
rights organisation for co-writing "Burn" with Pam Reswick and Steve
Werfel. In 2011, Arena became the first Australian to be awarded a knighthood
of the French National
Order of National Merit, presented by the
President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy,
for her contributions to French culture, and ceremonially awarded by Frédéric
Mitterrand, the Minister of Culture and
Communication of France.
In 2015, Arena was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA Hall of Fame. On Australia Day, 26
January 2016, Arena was recognised in the Australia Day Honours and appointed a
member in the General Division of the Order of Australia "for significant service to the music industry as a singer,
songwriter, and recording artist, and as a supporter of charitable
groups". In 2016 Arena was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia
(AM).
In March 2019, the Government of
Australia appointed Arena as a board member of
the Australia
Council for the Arts for a three-year term.
Pierre Garand(born 26 June 1972), known by
his stage name Garou (a diminutive of his last name "Garand"), is a
Canadian singer and entertainer from Sherbrooke,
Québec.
He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de
Paris(playing Quasimodo in both the original French and English casts) and the Nº 1 hits
"Belle", "Seul",
"Sous le vent",
and "La Rivière de
notre enfance".
Notre-Dame de Paris is a sung-through French musical which debuted
on 16 September 1998 in Paris. It is
based upon the novel Notre-Dame de
Paris(known in English as The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame) by the French novelist Victor Hugo.
The music was composed by Riccardo Cocciante(also
known as Richard Cocciante) and the lyrics are by Luc Plamondon.
Since its debut, it has been professionally
played in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Poland,
Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain,
Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom and
United States, and has been translated into eight languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Korean, Flemish, Polish, and Kazakh). A
shorter version in English was performed in 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) and a full-length London production,
also in English, ran for seventeen months. Several songs from the show, such
as "Vivre", "Belle"
and "Le temps des cathédrales", have been released as singles with a
huge success in French speaking countries.
Notre-Dame de Paris, according to the Guinness Book
of Records, had the most successful first
year of any musical ever. The score has been recorded at least seven times to
date (2007): the original French concept album, which featured Israeli singer Achinoam Nini(aka Noa)
as Esmeralda was followed by a live, complete recording of the original Paris cast. A complete
recording of the score in Italian was made, along with a single disc of
highlights in Spanish from the Barcelona production. The original London cast album featured several of the original Paris stars, but only
preserved a fraction of the score in English.
Will the birds they put in cages
Ever ride upon the wind?
Will the children life outrages
Ever learn to love again?
I lived my life like
a swallow
I arrived here with the springtime
All the little streets I'd follow
All the gypsy song were mine
Where's my friend who
rings the church bells?
Where are you my Quasimodo?
They will hang me as the light swells
You can break these bars I know
Esmeralda, have you
left me?
Do you hide yourself away?
I have counted every hour
I have missed you every day
Have you left upon a journey
With your handsome, shining soldier
With no marriage, taking love free
Like the gypsy girl you are?
Have you died out in
the small streets
With no prayer to get to Heaven?
There's a priest who counts tour heartbeats
If he comes near, you must run
You remember at the
street fair
When they hurt me on
the great wheel
When you begged, I
gave you water
At your feet I had to
kneel
Quasimodo and
Esmeralda
On that day our friendship started
It will last as long as we live
Once together never parted
All we have to give we'll give
Will the birds they put in cages
Ever ride upon the wind?
Will the children life outrages
Ever learn to love again?
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