Didier Barbelivien

Didier Barbelivien 2012

Didier Barbelivien (born March 10, 1954 in Paris ) is a French composer , songwriter and singer .

Life

From the mid-1970s he wrote several successful titles for Johnny Hallyday ( Elle m'oublie ) , Michel Sardou , Patricia Kaas , Gérard Lenorman and Michèle Torr .

As a composer and lyricist, he has also worked for Hervé Vilard , Gilbert Montagné , Marcel Amont , Marie Laforêt , Demis Roussos , Enrico Macias , Dalida , Claude François , Gilbert Bécaud , Corynne Charby , Lisa Angell , Mireille Mathieu , Glenn Medeiros , Julio Iglesias , Sylvie Vartan , Frank Michael , Shirel , Garou and Marilou Bourdon .

Didier Barbelivien took part in the Eurovision Song Contest four times as a composer . In 1978 songs he wrote landed in third and fourth place. Joël Prévost sang Il y aura toujours des violons for France , which was created in collaboration with Gérald Stern . The Monegasque contribution Les Jardins de Monaco just missed the podium. Caline and Oliver Toussaint sang this work, which Barbelivien had composed with Paul de Senneville , Jean Albertini and Olivier Toussaint. In 1979 Monaco took part again with a song written by Barbelivien, De Senneville and Albertini. Laurent Vaguener finished 16th with Notre vie c'est la musique . In 1995 Nathalie Santamaria sang Il me donne rendez-vous , which took fourth place. Barbelivien wrote the song in collaboration with François Bernheim , with whom most of Patricia Kaas' songs were composed .

Didier Barbelivien also appeared as a singer in the 1980s and 1990s. He celebrated his greatest successes in a duet with Félix Gray . In 1990 and 1991, respectively, they achieved two number 1 hits in a row in the French charts with the songs À toutes les filles and Il faut laisser le temps au temps .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		FR	BE W
1996	Chant	FR- × 2 Double gold FR	-
1995	Que l'amour	-	BE W46 (1 week) BE W
2001	Les années 70	FR130 (1 week) FR	-
2006	Envoie les clowns	FR56 (6 weeks) FR	-
2007	État des lieux: J'écrivais des chansons	FR96 (5 weeks) FR	-
2009	Atelier d'artistes	FR8th platinum (63 weeks)FR	BE W51 (14 weeks) BE W
2011	Mes préférences	FR4th platinum (42 weeks)FR	BE W26 (28 weeks) BE W
2012	Best Of - 3 CD	FR6th gold (24 weeks)FR	BE W15 (37 weeks) BE W
2012	Dédicacé	FR27 (13 weeks) FR	BE W46 (17 weeks) BE W
2016	Amours de moi	FR62 (8 weeks) FR	BE W50 (23 weeks) BE W
2018	Creator of chansons	FR117 (3 weeks) FR	BE W80 (6 weeks) BE W

More albums

• 1980: Elle
• 1982: Elsa
• 1985: C'est de quel côté la mer?
• 1987: Peut-être toi, peut-être une autre
• 1989: Des mots d'émotion
• 1991: Nos amours cassées (with Félix Gray)
• 1992: Vendée 93 (with Anaïs)
• 1994: Quitter l'autoroute (with Anaïs)
• 1997: Yesterday les Beatles
• 2003: Léo

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		FR	CH
1990	À toutes les filles ...	FR1 (28 weeks) FR	-	with Félix Gray
	Il faut laisser le temps au temps	FR1 (21 weeks) FR	-	with Félix Gray
1991	E vado via	FR5 (19 weeks) FR	-	with Félix Gray
	Nos amours cassées	FR20 (8 weeks) FR	-	with Félix Gray
1992	Les mariés de vendée	FR2 (23 weeks) FR	CH- gold CH	with Anaïs
1993	Puy du Fou	FR39 (3 weeks) FR	-	with Robert Hossein
	Quitter l'autoroute	FR32 (5 weeks) FR	-	with Anaïs

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
France (SNEP)	3 × gold3	2 × platinum2	450,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	-	25,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2

Web links

• Official website
• Discography as an interpreter
• Discography as a composer

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR BEW