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Louis Chedid (January 1st 1948) is an Egyptian-born french {{Chanson}} SingerSongwriter who is part of the artistic Chedid family.
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Louis Chedid (January 1st 1948) is an Egyptian-born french {{Chanson}} singer-songwriter who is part of the artistic Chedid family.
Born to French poet Andrée Chedid, he started his musical career in the seventies with a folk-inspired sound. He got his first hit with the song "T'as beau pas être beau" but it's only in the early eighties that he topped the french charts and got a wider recognition with the album ''Ainsi Soit-il'' and its title track. His son Matthieu is also a successful singer-songwriter in his own right, performing under the StageName -M-.
Born to French poet Andrée Chedid, he started his musical career in the seventies with a folk-inspired sound. He got his first hit with the song "T'as beau pas être beau" but it's only in the early eighties that he topped the french charts and got a wider recognition with the album ''Ainsi Soit-il'' and its title track. His son Matthieu is also a successful singer-songwriter in his own right, performing under the StageName -M-.
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Louis Chedid (January 1st 1948) is an Egyptian-born french {{Chanson}} singer-songwriter SingerSongwriter who is part of the artistic Chedid family.
Born to French poet Andrée Chedid, he started his musical career in the seventies with a folk-inspired sound. He got his first hit with the song "T'as beau pas être beau" but it's only in the early eighties that he topped the french charts and got a wider recognition with the album ''Ainsi Soit-il'' and its title track. His son Matthieu is also a successful singer-songwriter in his own right, performing under the StageName -M-.\n
Born to French poet Andrée Chedid, he started his musical career in the seventies with a folk-inspired sound. He got his first hit with the song "T'as beau pas être beau" but it's only in the early eighties that he topped the french charts and got a wider recognition with the album ''Ainsi Soit-il'' and its title track.
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His son Matthieu Chedid is also a successful singer-songwriter in his own right, performing under the {{Stage Name|s}} -M-.
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* HeavyMeta: "Le Rock du Rocking Chair".Chair" and "God Save The Swing".
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* ChristmasSongs: "Ce Soir C'Est Noël".
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* CelebritySong: "Anna Ma Soeur Anne" is named after UsefulNotes/AnnFrank. The lyrics are about the rise of far-right ideology in France and how Ann's legacy hasn't been remembered.
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* CelebritySong: "Anna Ma Soeur Anne" is named after UsefulNotes/AnnFrank. [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]. The lyrics are about the rise of far-right ideology in France and how Ann's Anne's legacy hasn't been remembered.
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* TruckDriversGearChange: Progressively done on each verse of "Ainsi Soit-Il" until the last verse which switches back to the song's first key.
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* FaceOnTheCover: On all of his albums except his debut and ''Deux Fois L'infini''.
* GenreRoulette: Starting his career with psychedelic {{Folk}} mixed with {{Chanson}}, he switched to a [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] sound in the early eighties before going back to his roots in the next decades.
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* FaceOnTheCover: On all of his albums except his debut and ''Deux Fois L'infini''.
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* GenreRoulette: Starting his career with psychedelic
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* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Despite a laid-back attitue and a simplicity in his songs' insrumentations, he has sung about heavy political subjects such as the rise of far-right ideology in France, dictatorships in South/Central America, or capitalism in a societal anxiety.
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Louis Chedid (January 1st 1948) is an Egyptian-born french {{Chanson}} singer-songwriter who is part of the artistic Chedid family.
Born to French poet Andrée Chedid, he started his musical career in the seventies with a folk-inspired sound. He got his first hit with the song "T'as beau pas être beau" but it's only in the early eighties that he topped the french charts and got a wider recognition with the album ''Ainsi Soit-il'' and its title track. His son Matthieu is also a successful singer-songwriter in his own right, performing under the StageName -M-.
His lyricism switches between political and mundane but the arrangement always gives them a loose laid-back feeling (complemented with Louis' limited vocal range). He has appeared in Music/EmilieJolie and co-wrote the musical ''Le Soldat Rose''.
!!Discography
* 1973 - ''Balbutiements''
* 1974 - ''Nous Sommes Des Clowns''
* 1976 - ''Ver de Terre''
* 1976 - ''Le Jeu de l'Oie et de Louis''
* 1980 - ''Egomane''
* 1981 - ''Ainsi Soit-il''
* 1983 - ''Panique Organisée''
* 1985 - ''Anne Ma Soeur Anne''
* 1988 - ''Bizar''
* 1990 - ''Zap''
* 1992 - ''Ces Mots Sont Pour Toi''
* 1997 - ''Répondez-Moi''
* 2001 - ''Boucbelair''
* 2005 - ''Un Ange Passe''
* 2010 - ''On Ne Dit Jamais Assez Aux Gens qu'on les Aime''
* 2013 - ''Deux Fois L'infini''
* 2015 - ''CHEDID'' (with Mathieu, Joseph and Anna Chedid)
* 2019 - ''Tout ce qu'on veut dans la Vie''
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!!His work provides examples of:
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "Le Rock du Rocking-Chair" features the creaking of a rocking-chair as the tempo.
* BandOfRelatives: He is part of the Chedid family (which has many artists among its members) and has founded a quartet with his sons Joseph and Mathieu, and her daughter Anna.
* DespairEventHorizon: "Le Cha Cha de l'insecurité" talks about anxiety and pessimism related to the rise of warfare and home intrusion. [[LyricalDissonance Despite having a smooth laid-back sound]].
* FaceOnTheCover: On all of his albums except his debut and ''Deux Fois L'infini''.
* HeavyMeta: "Le Rock du Rocking Chair".
* {{Instrumentals}}: Each of his albums usually have one instrumental piece in the tracklist, either an original track or the instrumental cut of a song which appears on the same album.
* LyricalDissonance: Often played in his politically-charged songs. The best example being "Coupe, Coupe, Tonton Macoute" which talks about dictatorships and war torture with a silly-sounding chorus full of alliterations. A differrent example is "Le Cha Cha de l'insécurité", a slow groovy track about the decline of society through a DespairEventHorizon scope.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Le Rock du Rocking-Chair" is the grooviest tune about sitting on a rocking-chair and being lazy.
* TheMusical: He composed his own musical, ''Le Soldat Rose''.
* OneWordTitle: ''Balbutiements'', ''Egomane'', ''Bizar'', ''Zap'', ''Boucbelair'' and ''CHEDID''.
* PopStarComposer: He composed the soundtracks of two films: ''Promotion Canapé'' and ''A Quoi tu Penses-tu ?''.
* PunBasedTitle: His fourth album ''Le Jeu de l'Oie et de Louis''.
* SelfBackingVocalist
* SillyLoveSongs: "J't'aimerai Toujours".
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Despite a laid-back attitue and a simplicity in his songs' insrumentations, he has sung about heavy political subjects such as the rise of far-right ideology in France, dictatorships in South/Central America, or capitalism in a societal anxiety.
* VocalRangeExceeded: On "Le Gros Blond" from the album ''Bizar''.
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Louis Chedid (January 1st 1948) is an Egyptian-born french {{Chanson}} singer-songwriter who is part of the artistic Chedid family.
Born to French poet Andrée Chedid, he started his musical career in the seventies with a folk-inspired sound. He got his first hit with the song "T'as beau pas être beau" but it's only in the early eighties that he topped the french charts and got a wider recognition with the album ''Ainsi Soit-il'' and its title track. His son Matthieu is also a successful singer-songwriter in his own right, performing under the StageName -M-.
His lyricism switches between political and mundane but the arrangement always gives them a loose laid-back feeling (complemented with Louis' limited vocal range). He has appeared in Music/EmilieJolie and co-wrote the musical ''Le Soldat Rose''.
!!Discography
* 1973 - ''Balbutiements''
* 1974 - ''Nous Sommes Des Clowns''
* 1976 - ''Ver de Terre''
* 1976 - ''Le Jeu de l'Oie et de Louis''
* 1980 - ''Egomane''
* 1981 - ''Ainsi Soit-il''
* 1983 - ''Panique Organisée''
* 1985 - ''Anne Ma Soeur Anne''
* 1988 - ''Bizar''
* 1990 - ''Zap''
* 1992 - ''Ces Mots Sont Pour Toi''
* 1997 - ''Répondez-Moi''
* 2001 - ''Boucbelair''
* 2005 - ''Un Ange Passe''
* 2010 - ''On Ne Dit Jamais Assez Aux Gens qu'on les Aime''
* 2013 - ''Deux Fois L'infini''
* 2015 - ''CHEDID'' (with Mathieu, Joseph and Anna Chedid)
* 2019 - ''Tout ce qu'on veut dans la Vie''
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!!His work provides examples of:
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "Le Rock du Rocking-Chair" features the creaking of a rocking-chair as the tempo.
* BandOfRelatives: He is part of the Chedid family (which has many artists among its members) and has founded a quartet with his sons Joseph and Mathieu, and her daughter Anna.
* DespairEventHorizon: "Le Cha Cha de l'insecurité" talks about anxiety and pessimism related to the rise of warfare and home intrusion. [[LyricalDissonance Despite having a smooth laid-back sound]].
* FaceOnTheCover: On all of his albums except his debut and ''Deux Fois L'infini''.
* HeavyMeta: "Le Rock du Rocking Chair".
* {{Instrumentals}}: Each of his albums usually have one instrumental piece in the tracklist, either an original track or the instrumental cut of a song which appears on the same album.
* LyricalDissonance: Often played in his politically-charged songs. The best example being "Coupe, Coupe, Tonton Macoute" which talks about dictatorships and war torture with a silly-sounding chorus full of alliterations. A differrent example is "Le Cha Cha de l'insécurité", a slow groovy track about the decline of society through a DespairEventHorizon scope.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Le Rock du Rocking-Chair" is the grooviest tune about sitting on a rocking-chair and being lazy.
* TheMusical: He composed his own musical, ''Le Soldat Rose''.
* OneWordTitle: ''Balbutiements'', ''Egomane'', ''Bizar'', ''Zap'', ''Boucbelair'' and ''CHEDID''.
* PopStarComposer: He composed the soundtracks of two films: ''Promotion Canapé'' and ''A Quoi tu Penses-tu ?''.
* PunBasedTitle: His fourth album ''Le Jeu de l'Oie et de Louis''.
* SelfBackingVocalist
* SillyLoveSongs: "J't'aimerai Toujours".
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Despite a laid-back attitue and a simplicity in his songs' insrumentations, he has sung about heavy political subjects such as the rise of far-right ideology in France, dictatorships in South/Central America, or capitalism in a societal anxiety.
* VocalRangeExceeded: On "Le Gros Blond" from the album ''Bizar''.
