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Yann Benoist

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, TV movies, TV shows, and musical comedies, 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, 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 was involved in all Version of "Envoyé Spécial " on TV ( A2 , FR 2 ) from 1990 to 2016

He is a composer for APM Music and Universal Publishing.

Selective discography

As a leader

  • Bye Bye Femme (CFD)
  • Rainbowcity (Night And Day distribution)
  • Décalage ( InouÏe distribution)
  • Hard Groove (Diggin' Miles Davis, Randy Brecker) (UVM Distribution)

As a sideman

Videos

DVDs

As a leader

As a sideman

  • Sheila (singer)
  • Space Concert In Moscow (once upon a time in the East)
  • Space Space Magic Concerts
  • Serge Lama Un jour , une vie (Live Bercy)
  • Sheila Sheila Live 89 à l'Olympia
  • Renaud La Chetron sauvage (Virgin music)

Composer

  • 1983 Alliance (Tabata Music) (Various Composers)
  • 1987 Bye bye femme (CFD)
  • 1997 Rainbowcity (Night and Day) (Spotify)

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

  • 2001 Serge Lama " Feuilles à feuilles" (Various composers)
  • 2002 Décalage (Sobridis musique) (Spotify)
  • 2005 RockAnd Roll Comedy (UPPM) (Various Composers) (Spotify)
  • 2006 French Songs Universal Publishing (UPPM) (Spotify)
  • 2007 Rock And Roll Comedy 2 (UPPM) (Various Composers)
  • 2010 Funk Addict APM Music (Spotify)
  • 2012 Indie Rock Session (KAPAGAMA) (Spotify)
  • 2015 Sunny Guitars (Musique & Music)" Echappée Belle " (Various Composers) (Spotify)
  • 2016 Melody Box " Des Racines et des Ailes " (Various Composers)
  • 2018 CDM Music (Picking) "La Maison France 5" (Various Composers)
  • 2019 Encore Merci Publishing "Acoustic Ballads"
  • 2022 CDM Music (Solo instruments positive) (Various Composers)
  • 2023 Amour Passion Editions(Various Composers)

Movie TV scores

Bibliography

  • Yann Benoist "Des Bises et des Shows " Ed Maîa (March 2026) ()
  • Serge Lama "La rage de vivre " (Fréderic Quinonero) Ed L'Archipel (September 2021) ()
  • JazzBluesNews " Yann Benoist Interview " http://jazzbluesnews.com/2021/07/18/yann-benoist/
  • Blues& Co N° 83 (Mars, April, May 2018) "Le Blues des Soviets" ( Yann Benoist Interview )
  • Dominique Grandfils "Anthologie du Rock Français de 1956 à 2017" Ed Camion Blanc ( June 2017 ) ()
  • Renaud "Des que le vent soufflera "(Regis Lefévre) Ed Pierre-Marcel Favre (July 1985) ()
  • Disc instruments international N° 87 September October 1985 ( banc d' essais )
  • Bécaud "L'Homme à la cravate à pois" (Bernard Reval)Ed Du Voyage (1995) ()
  • Mathias "L' amour "a capella" ( Mathias Ollivier ) Ed Art Access (April 2015) ()
  • Guitar et bass N° 47 January 98 (A.Brodzki)
  • Armor magazine N°442 November 2006 Yannick Pelletier
  • Home-Studio N° 253 July/August 2010 (Olivia Clain)
  • Sheila "Star Française "(Frederic Quinero) Ed Didier Carpentier (2012) ()
  • Guitar Part N° 333 H December 2021 Florent Passamonti " Hard Groove" (Diggin' Miles Davis Randy Brecker)
  • Jazz Magazine N°766 December 2023 Playlist ()
  • Jazz Magazine N°767 February 2024 Felix Marciano ()

References

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