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4 | Louis Chedid (born January 1, 1948 in Ismailia, Egypt) is an Egyptian-born French {{Chanson}} SingerSongwriter who is part of the artistic Chedid family. |
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6 | 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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8 | 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''. |
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10 | 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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12 | !!Discography |
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14 | * 1973 - ''Balbutiements'' |
15 | * 1974 - ''Nous Sommes Des Clowns'' |
16 | * 1976 - ''Ver de Terre'' |
17 | * 1976 - ''Le Jeu de l'Oie et de Louis'' |
18 | * 1980 - ''Egomane'' |
19 | * 1981 - ''Ainsi Soit-il'' |
20 | * 1983 - ''Panique Organisée'' |
21 | * 1985 - ''Anne Ma Soeur Anne'' |
22 | * 1988 - ''Bizar'' |
23 | * 1990 - ''Zap'' |
24 | * 1992 - ''Ces Mots Sont Pour Toi'' |
25 | * 1997 - ''Répondez-Moi'' |
26 | * 2001 - ''Boucbelair'' |
27 | * 2005 - ''Un Ange Passe'' |
28 | * 2010 - ''On Ne Dit Jamais Assez Aux Gens qu'on les Aime'' |
29 | * 2013 - ''Deux Fois L'infini'' |
30 | * 2015 - ''CHEDID'' (with Mathieu, Joseph and Anna Chedid) |
31 | * 2019 - ''Tout ce qu'on veut dans la Vie'' |
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35 | !!His work provides examples of: |
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37 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The chorus of "Coupe, Coupe, Tonton Macoute" is full of those. |
38 | * CelebritySong: "Anna Ma Soeur Anne" is named after [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]. The lyrics are about the rise of far-right ideology in France and how Anne's legacy hasn't been remembered. |
39 | * EverythingIsAnInstrument: "Le Rock du Rocking-Chair" features the creaking of a rocking-chair as the tempo while "La Machine" features the sound of various tools and enginery. |
40 | * 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. |
41 | * ChristmasSongs: "Ce Soir C'Est Noël". |
42 | * 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]]. |
43 | * FaceOnTheCover: On all of his albums except his debut and ''Deux Fois L'infini'', on top of being subverted on ''Egomane'' where he is seen wearing a mask. |
44 | * GenreRoulette: Starting his career with psychedelic [[FolkMusic 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. |
45 | * HeavyMeta: "Le Rock du Rocking Chair" and "God Save The Swing". |
46 | * {{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. |
47 | * 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. |
48 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: "Le Rock du Rocking-Chair" is the grooviest tune about sitting on a rocking-chair and being lazy. |
49 | * TheMusical: He composed his own musical, ''Le Soldat Rose'' and previously sang as The Racoon in Music/EmilieJolie. |
50 | * OneWordTitle: ''Balbutiements'', ''Egomane'', ''Bizar'', ''Zap'', ''Boucbelair'' and ''CHEDID''. |
51 | * PopStarComposer: He composed the soundtracks of two films: ''Promotion Canapé'' and ''A Quoi tu Penses-tu ?''. |
52 | * PunBasedTitle: His fourth album ''Le Jeu de l'Oie et de Louis''. |
53 | * SelfBackingVocalist |
54 | * SillyLoveSongs: "J't'aimerai Toujours". |
55 | * ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Despite a laid-back attitude 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. |
56 | * TruckDriversGearChange: Progressively done on each verse of "Ainsi Soit-Il" until the last verse which switches back to the song's first key. |
57 | * VocalRangeExceeded: On "Moi et Mon Boeing" from his first album ''Balbutiements'' and "Le Gros Blond" from the album ''Bizar''. |
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