Yann Benoist Explained

Yann Benoist
Instrument:Guitar
Birth Date:6 February 1951
Birth Place:Dinan, France
Occupation:Musician, composer
Years Active:1969-present

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

Early life

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

Career

When Benoist was 18 he started playing and singing, juggling time between school and gigging with some local bands in Brittany and Normandy.

During 1975 he worked with the Switzerland duet . The next year, he learned for a while with Pierre Cullaz (famous sessionman from the sixties) in Paris.

By the end of the seventies he was a member of the quartet. They won the first prize at in 1978. That same year he got a certificate from the Berklee College of Music.

Since then he has worked on stage or sessions for commercials,[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] TV movies,[6] [7] TV shows,[8] and musical comedies,[9] with a lot of 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, Dave (singer), Patrick Hernandez, Lucky Blondo, Nancy Holloway, Marcel Azzola, Sacha Distel, Murray Head, Maurane, Marie Myriam, Francis Cabrel, Smain, Dorothée, Gilles Servat, William Sheller, Jacques Loussier, and Michel Legrand.

In 1983 he was a member of Space,[10] with Didier Marouani, for the first big tour organized in the USSR. They performed 21 concerts in Moscow's Olympic Stadium, Leningrad's Saint-Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex and Kyiv's Palace of Sports 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 Sheila at the Olympia. In 2011 he was conductor for Joel Prevost at the Alhambra.

He is a composer for APM Music and Universal Publishing.

Selective discography

As a leader

As a sideman

Videos

DVDs

As a leader

As a sideman

Composer

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

Movie TV scores

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Slavin. Gil. Leroy Merlin. 2008. Pub TV.
  2. Web site: Alphapage. October 1990. Pub TV.
  3. Web site: Sharif. Omar. Tiercé Magazine. 1991. Pub TV .
  4. Web site: Volkswagen Passat. March 1994. Pub Tv.
  5. Web site: Compotes Andros. March 2002. Pub Tv.
  6. Web site: Mazoyer. Robert. Jeanne. IMDb. 30 November 1994. tv movie.
  7. Web site: Trotignon. Jean-Luc. La guerre des poux. IMDb. 1996. tv movie.
  8. Web site: Drucker. Michel. Champs-Elysées. tv movie.
  9. Web site: Matignon. Rubia. Et si on chantait. 2004.
  10. Web site: Marouani. Didier. Space 1983. YouTube. 19 October 2013.
  11. Web site: BYE BYE FEMME. 1987 .
  12. Web site: RAINBOW CITY. 1997 .
  13. Web site: DÉCALAGE. 2003 .
  14. Web site: Surprise. Discogs. 1982.
  15. Web site: One two three. Discogs. 1988.
  16. Web site: Les Plus Grands Succes de Sacha Distel. Discogs. 1989.
  17. Web site: On S'Dit Plus Rien. Discogs. 1992.
  18. Web site: Da Vinci Vox. May 2006.
  19. Web site: Chateigner. Yvon. L'Amore l'amore. 2008.
  20. Olivier Bride. Jude Box. Guitarist Magazine. 232. 122. April 2010.
  21. Web site: Gérard. Michel. Les joyeuses colonies de vacances. 1979. comedy.
  22. Web site: Mazoyer. Robert. Jeanne. 1994. comedy.
  23. Web site: Trotignon. Jean-Luc. La Guerre Des Poux. IMDb. 1996. comedy.

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