BIOGRAPHY:
Benjamin Biolay was born on January 20, 1973 in the Villefranche-on-Saone.
He grows in a musical universe (his/her father is a clarinettist
amateur) and is very early attracted by the music. He learns
the violin and the tuba and plays in the municipal symphony
orchestra. At 17 years, it changes musical orientation and is
diverted the traditional one more and more to assemble its first
pop group.
From 1992, it records
some demonstration in particular thanks to a lyric writer of
Foly Liana, but none will exceed the stage of the model. After
having turned with several groups, Benjamin launches out in
solo in 1996 and leaves little time after its first individual,
the Revolution ", which will not meet success just like
its second individual, left in 1998 ("the Day Will come").
The following year, it meets Keren Ann and writing with and
for it the album "the Biography De Luka Philipsen".
The same duet composes for Henri El Salvador and if the talent
of Benjamin is uncontested by the professionals, it is necessary
for him to wait until 2001 and left its first album "Pink
Kennedy" to conquer the public and to become an artist
impossible to circumvent of the new French scene. In May 2002,
Benjamin marries the actress Chiara Mastroianni, girl of Catherine
Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. In 2003 Benjamin is on all
fronts, it writes for Juliette Gréco and Valerie Lagrange,
adapts standards of the jazz for Julien Clerc and leaves its
second album, "Negative". After an album of pop duet
folk with his wife in 2004, Benjamin returns in 2005 with "A
the Origin" album autobiographical, sometimes sharp, other
vintage but always with this nice voice giving to the unit a
Biolaynne beauty.