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Bertrand Cantat (born March 5, 1964 in Pau ) is a French singer , member of the rock band Détroit and former front man of the group Noir Désir .
life and work
Youth and musical career until 2003
Cantat spent his childhood as the son of a professional soldier in Normandy . In 1980 the family (father Guy, mother Daniele and older brother Xavier and younger sister Anne) returned to southern France and settled in Bordeaux. Bertrand went through a difficult puberty with depressive moods up to and including attempted suicide - one of the parallels that later brought him the comparison with Jim Morrison .
In high school he met the future members of his band: Denis Barthe ( drums ), Serge Teyssot-Gay ( guitar ) and Frédéric Vidalenc ( bass guitar ). They founded Psychoz , the band's first punk- style name in the 1980s. In the early years, the band was musically distinguished by a contemporary New Wave sound. What began as a hobby outside of school increasingly became the focus of life. The band toured bars and clubs in the south of France, won several radio competitions and was noticed by the music manager Théo Hakola in 1987, who wrote their first mini album Où veux tu qu'je r'garde? produced with six titles. At this point the name was changed to Noir Désir .
The manslaughter of his friend Marie Trintignant
In 1993 Cantat met the Hungarian translator Krisztina Rády (* 1968), whom he married in 1997 after the birth of their son Milo. Krisztina was pregnant with her second child when Cantat was introduced to the also married actress Marie Trintignant in July 2002 after a concert . Both fell in love. Shortly after the birth of daughter Alice in September, Cantat left his family in Bordeaux and moved to Trintignant in Paris, who in turn asked her husband, filmmaker and writer Samuel Benchetrit , to move out of her home.
During a stay in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius , where Trintignant was filming with Cantat, a jealousy scene arose on the night of July 26, 2003 due to a text message that Trintignant had received from her husband escalated into physical violence. Cantat hit Marie so hard that she fell into a coma. Only in the morning did he and her brother, whom he had informed in the meantime, call for medical help. Despite two operations, Marie Trintignant's condition did not improve. After learning of the severity of Marie's injuries, Cantat tried to kill himself with pills, but was found by the police in time. Trintignant died shortly after being transferred to the Hartmann Clinic in Neuilly near Paris on August 1st.
Charges were brought against Cantat for manslaughter and failure to provide assistance. The crime and the trial held in Vilnius in March 2004 (the Lithuanian judiciary refused extradition to France) attracted a great deal of media attention in France. The Cantat-Trintignant affair dominated the newspaper headlines and news magazines in France. Both the singer and the actress were to a certain extent national symbols, and the media and the public debated the case in a correspondingly polarizing way in their accusations. Trintignant's funeral at the Père Lachaise celebrity cemetery in Paris was like a national event in which high-ranking figures from politics and culture took part.
Sentencing, imprisonment and release
On March 29, 2004, Bertrand Cantat was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for manslaughter (see homicide offense ) and failure to provide assistance . He was in Lukiškės Prison . In September 2004, the extradition request of his lawyer Olivier Metzner was granted and he was transferred to the prison in Muret (southwest of Toulouse).
Two years after the tragedy, Cantat's band Noir Désir completed work on the CD Noir Désir en public , originally planned for 2003 , a live compilation of their last tour in 2002. The CD was released in September 2005 at the same time as the double DVD Noir Désir en images . Cantat was able to participate in the publications due to an exemption. For Serge Teyssot-Gay, the story of Noir Désir did not end there: “We have been around for 25 years. We will get together again - with Bertrand. And without walls. "
On October 16, 2007, Cantat was released from prison because of his good conduct and good prospects for “social and professional reintegration”. The short period of his imprisonment has been criticized by French feminist associations. The early release was subject to conditions. Cantat was banned from making public statements or interviews about the crime until 2010. In addition, he had to continue the psychotherapy that he had already started in detention.
On January 10, 2010, Cantat's first wife, Krisztina Rády, committed suicide. In 2013, Cantat spoke in the music magazine Les Inrockuptibles about the manslaughter of Trintignant and the suicide of his first wife. Accordingly, he regrets the act, but also does not want to be seen as "the symbol of violence against women".
Musical career from 2008
In November 2008, two new titles (“ Gagnants - Perdants ” and “ Le temps des Cerises ”) were made available for free download on the Noir Désir Group's official website . This was the group's first artistic "sign of life" since Bertrand Cantat was released from prison. In November 2010, however, Serge Teyssot-Gay announced his departure due to personal and musical differences with Bertrand Cantat, whereupon the remaining three band members announced the breakup of the group.
In October 2010 Cantat made his stage comeback together with the band Eiffel at a small festival in Bègles . In 2009 he had already recorded the title À tout moment la rue together with Eiffel , which appeared as a single and on Eiffel 's fourth studio album À tout moment . In 2011 Cantat recorded the title Palabra mi amor with the crossover band Shaka Ponk for their album The Geeks & the Jerkin 'Socks . This was published in November 2013 together with two other titles played together at a concert in Bercy in 2013 on Shaka Pons live DVD Geeks on Stage .
Detroit
Together with Pascal Humbert, previously the bass player of 16 Horsepower and Passion Fodder , Cantat founded the Détroit project . At the end of September 2013, they released the single Droit dans le soleil , which immediately entered the top ten of the French charts. The song was an anticipation of the joint album Horizons, which was released on November 18, 2013.
literature
- Stéphane Bochet, Frédéric Vézard: Marie Trintignant - Bertrand Cantat: l'amour à mort , 2013, ISBN 978-2-8098-1238-1 .
- Andy Vérol: Un noir désir, Bertrand Cantat , 2008, ISBN 978-2-35012-231-1 .
Web links
- Bertrand Cantat in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Profile: Bertrand Cantat news.bbc.co.uk, March 29, 2004 (English)
swell
- ↑ a b Chart sources: FR (until 2013) FR (official) CH BE (Wallonia)
- ↑ a b Ann-Catherine Cavalli: wife of rock singer Bertrand Cantat commits suicide. rfi.fr, January 11, 2010, accessed August 12, 2013 .
- ↑ The night when two lives ended. tagesspiegel.de, March 18, 2004, accessed on August 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Gerd Kröncke: Silent Prisoner No. 8274.Süddeutsche.de , December 16, 2008, accessed on August 12, 2013 .
- ↑ a b pad / dpa: Dead actress Trintignant: Condemned rock singer Cantat free. Spiegel Online, October 16, 2007, accessed August 12, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Elizabeth Pineau, édité par Yves Clarisse: Bertrand Cantat refait surface à la tête de Noir Désir. (No longer available online.) In: lepoint.fr . November 13, 2008, archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved August 12, 2013 .
- ↑ n-tv news television: Marie Trintignant case: Noir-Désir singer speaks about manslaughter. In: n-tv.de. Retrieved February 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Gerd Niewerth: Bertrand Cantat: The rock star with two faces. wz-newsline.de, October 3, 2010, accessed on August 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Cantat revient avec un titre d'une sobre gravité , Stéphane Davet, Le Monde, September 30, 2013
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| SURNAME | Cantat, Bertrand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French rock singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pau , France |