Line #49 Music/LouisChedid


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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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