Frédéric François
Frédéric François (real name Francesco Barracato) (born June 3, 1950 in Lercara Friddi , Sicily ) is an Italian singer and composer who lives in the Walloon part of Belgium . He sold over 35 million records, making him the third most successful Belgian singer behind Salvatore Adamo and Jacques Brel . He sang a total of 350 songs in four languages.
Life
Origin and childhood
He was born on June 3, 1950 in Lercara Friddi (Sicily) as the second of eight children to the seamstress Antonina Salemi and the miner Giuseppe Barracato. The father emigrated to Belgium in the Liège coalfield, where he received a three-year contract.
In 1951 the mother moved with her two sons, after which she lived with father Peppino in an aid convoy of the Red Cross in Tilleur [2]. Peppino enjoyed singing Neapolitan songs and opera arias, accompanying himself on the guitar. Francesco performed in front of an audience in a café at the age of ten.
Beginnings
In 1963 he became a part-time guitarist and singer in a group called Les Eperviers . In 1965 he left the vocational school and took violin lessons at the Liège Conservatory of Music, where he took courses in diction, declamation and singing, among other things.
In 1966 he joined the Les Tigres Sauvages group and won the Microsillon d'Argent at the Châtelet Festival in Belgium. The price also included recording a single. For this he recorded the titles Petite fille and Ne pleure pas under the pseudonym François Bara . His father bought the 500 records and sold them to jukebox owners. In addition, the winner of this music competition was allowed to appear as the opening act for three famous artists: Johnny Hallyday , Pascal Danel and Michel Polnareff .
In 1969 the Belgian producer Constant Defourny got him his first record deal with the music label Barclay-Belgique. In July 1969 he recorded Sylvie and released his first single under the name Frédéric François, in homage to the composer Frédéric Chopin . He made his first solo appearances on the Liège stages, incorporating five original compositions into the repertoire of the dance orchestra The Best Group . The unsuccessful singles Les Orgues de Saint Michel and Comme tous les amoureux followed . He wrote this song for the Belgian participation in the Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1970 , but did not make it into the final selection.
1970s
In 1970, Frédéric François took on a new title, Jean [4], an adaptation of the British film song The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [5] by director Ronald Neame (1969). This song was sold under the AZ label and was also successful beyond the French-speaking part of Belgium. In 1970 he married Monique Vercauteren, a miner's daughter. In a duet with her he recorded a new song, this time spoken and not sung: I love you, je t'aime . Their first child, Gloria, was born on February 13, 1971. The 30,000 copies of this single sold were considered the first notable success. But Monique still had to work in the factory. Frédéric could hardly live from his music and no longer believed in the great success when he wrote the songs Comme on jette une bouteille à la mer and Je n'ai jamais aimé comme je t'aime to texts by the chanson writer Marino Atria [6] composed.
Frédéric François was number 1 on the charts for 13 weeks in the program Formule J and was therefore on everyone's lips, which prompted his new label Vogue-Belgique to distribute Je n'ai jamais aimé comme je t'aime on a test basis, initially only in the French record stores in the Pas-de-Calais department , a neighboring region of Belgium. 250,000 copies were sold. He himself regards this sixth single, which he released under the name Frédéric François, as his first real success.
On May 15, 1972, his second child, Vincent, was born. Frédéric François had his first big box-office hit in the summer of 1972 with Je voudrais dormir près de toi , which sold 500,000 times and topped the lists in several countries.
With the publication of other successes such as Laisse-moi vivre ma vie , Viens te perdre dans mes bras (1973) and Chicago (1975), he was also on tour more and more often. During this time, his third child, Anthony, was born on January 8, 1976. Frédéric François was now considered a heartthrob. He was able to benefit from this success until 1979, when the triumphant advance of disco music began, which pushed him from the top positions in the charts.
1980s
Until 1982 he had no more success worth mentioning. This left emotional traces and expressed itself psychosomatically in the form of violent panic attacks, which only subsided when the success was restored. He received a boost from the free radio stations, which repeatedly broadcast the title Adios Amor (1982), which is the adaptation of a German hit song by Andy Borg by the songwriter Michel Jourdan. 500,000 copies of this single were sold within a few weeks, followed by Aimer, an adaptation by M. Jourdan / Andy Borg in 1983. In 1984 he switched to Trema, the record label of Michel Sardou and Enrico Macias. Until then, Frédéric François had mainly sold singles, despite his 13 LPs on Vogue. Now he's released a new album, Mon cœur te dit je t'aime , which grossed gold.
That year also saw the launch of the Top 50, which marked a turning point in his career because, for the first time in history, the singers ranked themselves based on actual sales rather than subjective ratings. In Paris, however, show business was still met with skepticism. Frédéric François was already 34 years old when he was allowed to perform for the first time at the Olympia in Paris, thanks to his manager Moïse Benitah, who was able to convince Jean-Michel Boris and Paulette Coquatrix . The concerts were sold out. His new song Je t'aime à l'italienne was so popular that a year later (1985) it was again emblazoned in red letters above the entrance of the famous Paris Music Hall. His first book was also published, Les yeux charbon (Carrère-Lafon), a tribute to his family and his audience.
On April 14, 1987, his father, Peppino Barracato, died. The success of his new album Une nuit ne suffit pas (first collaboration with a songwriter, Michaele) and the preparations for his third Olympic appearance in 1988 helped him to cope with this stroke of fate.
In 1989 he performed in 25 cities in Canada and in the USA (April 1989) in Miami and New York, where he gave five concerts in three different halls: Brooklyn College, Queen's College of the CUNY and the Townhall Foundation.
1990s
For three weeks, from March 1 to 18, 1990, Frédéric François was on the program at the Olympia. On the first evening, at the end of the concert, while he was singing the last song of his repertoire, Je t'aime à l'italienne, he learned that his fourth child, Victoria, had just been born. Two years later he was on the program of the famous Paris Music Hall for a whole month. This was the longest concert series of his career.
In 1993 he left Trema and founded his own label, MBM, in order to be artistically completely free. He signed a contract with BMG for sales. There he released the last single vinyl record of his career, L'amour c'est la musique. This was followed by his first CD entitled Tzigane (and a first excerpt from the same last single in Belgium).
On December 20, 1996, Pope John Paul II received him and other guests of honor for a private audience in Rome. [7] On this occasion he sang for the first time in front of the Catholic leader, accompanied by 70 musicians and the choirs of the Roman Opera.
His mother, whom he had always adored, died on August 17, 1997. Frédéric François dedicated his eighth concert at Olympia to her, which took place in March 1998, followed by a tour that drew more than 300,000 visitors. In preparation for his first concert on May 30, 1999 in his native Lercara Friddi in Sicily, he recorded an album with Italian classics (Volare, Come Prima, Ciao Ciao Bambina) under the title Les plus grandes mélodies italiennes a few months beforehand. He also added a family song well known in Sicily, La porta abanidduzza (English translation: The ajar door), and sang in Sicilian dialect for the first time in his career. For him, this was a kind of return to his roots and at the same time an opportunity to celebrate his 30th career anniversary.
In 1999 LCJ Productions released a VHS cassette of the film Les dédales d'Icare, directed by Armand Rocour (1981 Belgium). The title song of the film, Je voyage, sang Frédéric François. It was also his first film role.
2000s
Frédéric François began the new millennium with the publication of his second book, Ma vie (Hors Collection publisher), in collaboration with journalist Serge Igor, to whom he told his life as he had never done before. He also granted access to his personal photo archive for the first time.
His tour from 2002–2003 included more than 100 concerts in France, Belgium and Switzerland, including a homage to Tino Rossi in 2003, whose greatest chanson successes he included in his repertoire: Méditerranée, Marinella, Ave Maria, Petit Papa Noël.
In 2004 he sang in English for the first time at his 11th concert at the Olympia, namely a cover of Elvis Presley, Love me tender. The audience thanked him with a standing ovation. After three years of not recording a new song, he released a CD with 15 chansons in 2005, including Et si on parlait d'amour. Within a few weeks he sold 200,000 copies.
In October 2005, in the third book, Autobiographie d'un Sicilien (Ramsay publishing house), he showed himself from a very private side and revealed his values and ideals in it. In the same year some of his female fans gave him another nickname in addition to the already famous "Fredo": "La voix de l'amour" (The voice of love).
In his songs, Frédéric François likes to talk about his own life. The album Mes Préférences, released on June 14, 2006, is emblematic because it takes up the milestones of his career and family life: the song he sang in front of an audience for the first time at the age of ten, O Sole Mio; his first recording Petite fille; his first great success Laisse-moi vivre ma vie; the song he wrote in honor of his mother when she was still alive, Mamina ("little mom" in Sicilian); the declaration of love for his youngest daughter, Victoria, with the song Fou d'elle; the title he wrote on the sixth anniversary of his father's death, Le Strapontin de papa.
Frédéric François said, exactly one year apart, twice Merci la vie !, the first time on October 22, 2007 with his CD Merci la vie! and the second time on October 22nd, 2008 with the publication of his photo book with over 300 photos by star photographer Patrick Carpentier (Merci la vie! published by Du Rocher). On October 26, 2008, however, Frédéric François fell ill shortly before his concert in the Liège Forum. He suffered a breakdown as a result of cortisone abuse. He had to be admitted to the CHU clinic in Liège twice. The first stay lasted almost a month, from November 28th to December 22nd, 2008, the second fortnightly in February 2009. While he was in hospital, his live album was released, followed by the DVD of his 2008 tour from Olympia to Forest National with a compilation of recordings of his stage appearances in Paris and Brussels.
The doctors gave him complete rest. He interrupted his career for a whole year. His first public appearance, in which he sang exceptionally, was on the Télévie program on the Belgian TV channel RTL-TVI, which calls for donations for cancer research. Frédéric François sang the song Somethin 'Stupid by Frank Sinatra with his daughter Victoria, a duet that they had performed together at Olympia in March 2008, on his daughter's 18th birthday. On October 31, 2009, he continued his career and also his tour, which he had to break off due to illness. And he picked up exactly where he left off: on the stage of the Liège Forum.
2010s
In 2010 he released a new album, Chanteur d'amour, followed by a property book Une vie d'amour, livre objet. From February 11th to 20th, 2011 he was on the program again in the Olympia, on March 5th, 2011 in the Forest National [proof required]. He brought out a CD called 40 Succès en or including DCD.
After a year-long tour, he returned to the Olympia on March 3rd and 4th, 2012, with guest appearances by his friends Liane Foly and Roberto Alagna.
On October 20, 2013, he appeared on France 2's Vivement Dimanche TV program to promote his new album Amor Latino, which was released on October 21, 2013. In the television studio he sang Qu'as-tu fait de moi and Amor Latino.
After this broadcast, Michel Drucker stated that he and Frédéric François had achieved the highest ratings of the season. The album Amor Latino shows a new "Frédéric-François-Style", a veritable cross-over with newly created musical styles: Classic-Pop, Tango-Rock, Tango-R'n'B, Electro-Swing and much more
He celebrated his 14th concert at the Olympia from February 28, 2014 to March 9, 2014. He then went on tour until 2015. On August 18, 2014 he released a best-of-box with 3 CDs, and on October 20, 2014 CD 30 ans d'Olympia - Live 2014.
In December 2014 his daughter Victoria Barracato shot her first video clip: Fidèle. At the end of the year 2014, Frédéric François released an album called Magie de Noël, on which he sings Christmas classics, several folk songs and a new song: Avant Noël.
Audiovisual
In the summer of 1969, Frédéric François was heard for the first time on the radio, on the Belgian radio station RTBF. He sang Sylvie. A few weeks later he took part for the first time as a guest on a radio show, on the same station.
In France, the station Europe N ° 1 first broadcast a song by Frédéric François, Jean, in 1970, with which he made it into a hit parade for the first time, namely in the charts of this station. In the second half of 1971 Je n'ai jamais aimé comme je t'aime ran for the first time on the radio, in the program Formule J of the Belgian radio station RTBF. This song stayed at number 1 for 13 weeks. When the French in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, who loved to listen to Belgian radio stations, did not find this single in their record store because it was not sold in France, they traveled to Belgium to buy the record there.
After the publication of Je voudrais dormir près de toi, Frédéric François took part in his first radio broadcast in France on Europe N ° 1 in 1972. The show was called 5, 6, 7 and was hosted by Jacques Ourévitch. In the same studio were Michel Berger and Michel Jonasz, who were just making their debut.
His first television program was broadcast in 1972 on ORTF, which was the only French television broadcaster at the time. It was a live broadcast from the wine festival in Nogent-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), moderated by Guy Lux. He stood next to Mike Brant on a moving truck and was driven all over town.
In the same year he took part in his second television program, Midi-Première, which was moderated by Danièle Gilbert and Jacques Martin. There he met his Italian-Sicilian-Belgian compatriot Salvatore Adamo for the first time, who was already a star at the time. On that day, an inseparable friendship developed between the two.
In 1973, Christian Morin was the first presenter on Europe N ° 1 to introduce Frédéric François, nicknamed "Frédo", in the program Le hit parade, to which Frédéric François was invited to meet the millionth buyer of his latest single, Laisse -moi vivre ma vie to surprise with a gift.
In December 1974 Frédéric François sang live on RTL, but not in the big studio, but in the church of Chesnay in the Yvelines department in front of two hundred children and their parents. The proceeds from this performance went to disabled children in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine) and to fatherless children from the Le Nid Foundation in the city of Antony. In early 1975 he was tied for first place with Mike Brant in the audience vote for the most popular singer in the television program Samedi est à vous hosted by Bernard Golay on the first channel ORTF.
From 1975 to 1979 he was prime-time guest on the program Ring-Parade on Antenne 2, hosted by Guy Lux and Jean-Pierre Foucault.
The radio was a decisive factor in the career of Frédéric François, because his success came above all with the free radio stations, which were founded in many places at the time and played the title Adios Amor countless times in 1982. After three long and unsuccessful years, his career took off again.
From 1983 to 1998 he was a frequent guest in the École des Fans of Jacques Martin in his show Dimanche Martin.
From 1984 Pascal Sevran invited him regularly to the program La Chance aux Chansons. In 1995 he was the main guest on this show for a whole week. The occasion was his recently released second album Les Italos-Américains.
In 1988 he accepted the invitation to start the new television program on the Belgian broadcaster RTL-TVI, Télévie, which collects donations to fight leukemia. It was and is an honor for him to take part every year to this day. In France, his son Anthony surprised him in 1988 on an episode of Jean-Pierre Foucault's Sacrée Soirée, when he sang Chicago with his sister Gloria (guitar) and brother Vincent (piano).
On December 17, 1988 Patrick Sabatier dedicated an episode of his program Avis de Recherche on TF1 to him. He and his seven siblings were united for the first time on television. His wife Monique only sang in public once, in the Valentine's Day episode of the Sacrée Soirée on February 14, 1991, when she sang Mon cœur te dit je t'aime in a duet with him.
On April 12, 1991, Tous à la Une offered him the exceptional position of editorial management on TF1. Frédéric Mitterrand dedicated his program C'est notre vie to him on June 17, 1994, in which he met the actress who made him dream during his youth: Gina Lollobrigida. He improvised the Italian version of the song Le Chaland on the guitar, knowing that this was one of the actress' favorite songs and that it had served as the theme of several cult films in Italy.
In 1999, RTL-TVI and Marylène Bergmann dedicated a special broadcast to him, which was recorded in front of an audience in Brussels' Cirque Royal. On April 25, 2009 he took over the sponsorship of a new program on the Belgian broadcaster RTL-TVI, Au cœur de Télévie, which was intended to raise awareness of cancer as a widespread disease in a series of reports. On the same day, as every year, he appeared in the studio of this station to raise funds for cancer research on behalf of Télévie. That evening he sang again for the first time after being forced to take a six-month career break for health reasons.
Since the concert on October 17th, 2008 in the Micropolis of Besançon, he had not been seen for a long time and now wanted to show the public that he was better. He surprised viewers of Sophie Davant's C'est au programe on France 2 on May 14, 2009 with an appearance. On the radio he only interrupted his break once at the request of Dave, who presented a redesigned Top 50 on Europe 1 throughout the summer. The episode aired on August 17, 2009.
In 2010, Frédéric François took part in Daniela Lumbroso's Chabada program with Salvatore Adamo and tenor Roberto Alagna. None of the three singers stuck to the given program (it was actually a homage to Polnareff, Brassens and Luis Mariano). Instead, there was a “Sicilian” musicians' meeting, at which the three guests in the studio relived their musical childhood memories.
In 2011 Michel Drucker invited Frédéric François to a special Italian episode of his program Vivement Dimanche, alongside Ornella Muti, Arturo Brachetti, Les Prêtres and others. In the same year, Stéphane Pauwels started the new program Les orages de la vie on the Belgian TV channel RTL-TVI, which was supposed to show that even the biggest stars have lived through dark times. Frédéric François was the first “subject” of this program. On this occasion he was taken to Tilleur, where he had spent his childhood, to his parents' house, on whose door his first producer, Constant Defourny, knocked.
In the 2010s, Frédéric François was a regular guest on numerous programs such as Les Années Bonheur by Patrick Sébastien, Les Grands du Rire by Humbert Ibach, hosted by Yves Lecoq, or Face à Face by RTL-TVI.
At the beginning of 2014, Frédéric François was a guest on Sophie Davant's program C'est au program, in which the writer Marc Lévy paid him a moving homage, as if he had written the extraordinary life story of little Francesco Barracato. Frédéric François was so moved that he included this video in his new tour, in a sequence “Hommage à mon père” (Homage to my father).
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 FR
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 BE W
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| 1995 | Les Italo-Américains | - |
BE W16 (4 weeks) BE W |
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| Les plus belles chansons Napolitaines |
FR-  |
BE W16 (10 weeks) BE W |
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| 1996 | Olympia '96: 25 ans d'amour |
FR11 (3 weeks) FR |
BE W48 (2 weeks) BE W |
|
| 1997 | Les chansons de mon coeur vol. 2 |
FR39 (2 weeks) FR |
BE W39 (4 weeks) BE W |
|
| L'amour fou | - |
BE W46 (2 weeks) BE W |
||
| 1998 | Je ne t'oublie pas | - |
BE W46 (2 weeks) BE W |
|
| Chansons d'amour | - |
BE W46 (1 week) BE W |
||
| 1999 | Best Of (1999) | - |
BE W3 (16 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2001 | Un slow pour s'aimer |
FR26th (17 weeks)FR |
BE W42 (7 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2002 | Chante Noël |
FR50 (5 weeks) FR |
BE W42 (4 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2003 | Olympia 2002 |
FR43 (10 weeks) FR |
- | |
| Les romances de toujours |
FR53 (11 weeks) FR |
BE W49 (3 weeks) BE W |
||
| 2004 | Un été d'amour |
FR75 (11 weeks) FR |
BE W18 (12 weeks) BE W |
|
| Coffret Noël |
FR174 (1 week) FR |
- | ||
| 2005 | 30 chansons of legend | - |
BE W51 (4 weeks) BE W |
|
| Et si l'on parlait d'amour ... |
FR6th (36 weeks)FR |
BE W2 (45 weeks)BE W |
||
| Best Of (2005) | - |
BE W93 (1 week) BE W |
||
| Bailamos |
FR133 (6 weeks) FR |
- | ||
| 2006 | À l'Olympia - Live 2005 |
FR71 (8 weeks) FR |
BE W28 (7 weeks) BE W |
|
| Best Of (2007) |
FR169 (1 week) FR |
- | ||
| Mes préférences |
FR163 (1 week) FR |
- | ||
| Master série |
FR129 (2 weeks) FR |
- | ||
| 2007 | Merci la vie |
FR8th (29 weeks)FR |
BE W4th (30 weeks)BE W |
|
| 2008 | 20 ans d'Olympia | - |
BE W32 (12 weeks) BE W |
|
| Pour toi, Maman | - |
BE W9 (8 weeks) BE W |
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| You soleil et des chansons d'amour | - |
BE W85 (4 weeks) BE W |
||
| Tour 2008 de l'Olympia à Forest National |
FR116 (6 weeks) FR |
BE W26 (16 weeks) BE W |
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| 2009 | Les 50 plus belles chansons d'amour | - |
BE W57 (11 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2010 | Toutes mes chansons ont une histoire | - |
BE W83 (4 weeks) BE W |
|
| Chanteur d'amour |
FR9 (21 weeks)FR |
BE W5 (35 weeks) BE W |
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| 2011 | 40 succès en or |
FR142 (3 weeks) FR |
BE W42 (22 weeks) BE W |
|
| Tour 2011 - Spectacle Anniversaire |
FR91 (8 weeks) FR |
BE W12 (14 weeks) BE W |
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| 2012 | Hit Box 3CD |
FR107 (6 weeks) FR |
- | |
| Mon cœur te dit je t'aime | - |
BE W11 (29 weeks) BE W |
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| Pour toi, Maman (2012) |
FR147 (2 weeks) FR |
BE W12 (26 weeks) BE W |
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| L'intégrale des albums originaux 1984-1992 | - |
BE W198 (1 week) BE W |
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| L'intégrale des albums originaux 1993-2010 | - |
BE W29 (43 weeks) BE W |
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| 2013 | Cupid Latino |
FR8th (23 weeks)FR |
BE W4th (52 weeks)BE W |
|
| Les 50 plus belles chansons | - |
BE W62 (30 weeks) BE W |
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| 2014 | 30 ans d'Olympia Bruno Coquatrix - Spectacle 2014 |
FR65 (14 weeks) FR |
BE W20 (34 weeks) BE W |
|
| La magie de Noël |
FR148 (1 week) FR |
BE W52 (10 weeks) BE W |
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| 2015 | Fidèle |
FR88 (3 weeks) FR |
BE W52 (18 weeks) BE W |
|
| C'est la fete! |
FR140 (1 week) FR |
BE W56 (15 weeks) BE W |
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| 2016 | Les femmes sont la lumière du monde |
FR8th (38 weeks)FR |
BE W2 (89 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2017 | Les n ° 1 |
FR136 (2 weeks) FR |
BE W30 (40 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2018 | La voix de l'amour |
FR135 (2 weeks) FR |
BE W37 (14 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2019 | Juste un peu d'amour |
FR8 (25 weeks) FR |
BE W2 (35 weeks) BE W |
|
| 2020 | L'album anniversaire |
FR61 (3 weeks) FR |
BE W6 (16 weeks) BE W |
|
More albums
- 1971: I love you, je t'aime , Vogue
- 1972: Je voudrais dormir près de toi , Vogue
- 1973: Viens te perdre dans mes bras , Vogue
- 1974: Viens te perdre dans mes bras , Vogue-Japon
- 1975: Chicago (FR:gold)
- 1976: San Francisco , Vogue
- 1977: Laisse-moi vivre ma vie , Vogue-Japon
- 1978: Giorgia , Vogue
- 1979: Giorgia , Vogue-Argentine
- 1980: Qui t'a dit qu'en ce temps là , Vogue
- 1981: Je veux chanter la nostalgie , Vogue
- 1982: Adios amor , Vogue
- 1983: Aimer , Vogue
- 1984: Mon cœur te dit je t'aime , Trema
- 1985: Je t'aime à l'italienne (FR:gold)
- 1986: L'aimer encore , Trema
- 1988: Une nuit ne suffit pas (FR:gold)
- 1988: Live de l'Olympia , Trema
- 1989: L'amour s'en va (FR:gold)
- 1990: Qui de nous deux (FR:gold)
- 1991: Est-ce que tu es seule ce soir (FR:× 2Double gold )
- 1992: Je ne te suffis pas (FR:× 2Double gold )
- 1993: Tzigane (FR:gold)
- 1994: Les chansons de mon cœur (FR:gold)
- 1996: Album d'or , MBM-BMG
- 1997: Les chansons de mon cœur vol 2 , MBM-BMG
- 1998: Olympia 98 , MBM-BMG
- 1999: Les plus grandes mélodies italiennes , MBM-BMG
- 2000: Olympia 2000 , MBM-BMG
- 2006: Les chansons mythiques des années 70 , MBM / Sony-BMG
- 2012: Je n'ai pas fini de t'aimer / Parler d'amour , MBM / Sony BMG
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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FR
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BE W
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| 1984 | On s'embrasse on oublie tout On s'embrasse on oublie tout |
FR43 (2 weeks) FR |
- | |
| Mon cœur te dit je t'aime Mon cœur te dit je t'aime |
FR4 (15 weeks) FR |
- | ||
| 1985 | Une femme pour toute la vie |
FR31 (7 weeks) FR |
- | |
| Je t'aime à l'italienne Je t'aime à l'italienne |
FR16  (17 weeks)FR |
- | ||
| 1986 | L'aimer encore L'aimer encore |
FR27 (10 weeks) FR |
- | |
| 1988 | Une nuit ne suffit pas Une nuit ne suffit pas |
FR27 (12 weeks) FR |
- | |
| L'amour s'en va, l'amour revient L'amour s'en va, l'amour revient |
FR19th (17 weeks)FR |
- | ||
| 1989 | Qui de nous deux Qui de nous deux |
FR8 (17 weeks) FR |
- | |
| 1990 | C'est toi qui pars ... |
FR27 (11 weeks) FR |
- | |
| 1991 | Est-ce que do it seule ce soir? Est-ce que do it seule ce soir? |
FR8th (19 weeks)FR |
- | |
| Je me battrai pour elle Est-ce que do it seule ce soir? |
FR6 (13 weeks) FR |
- | ||
| 1992 | Je ne te suffis pas Je ne te suffis pas |
FR9 (10 weeks) FR |
- | |
| Bleu méditerranée |
FR38 (10 weeks) FR |
- | ||
| 1993 | L'amour, c'est la musique |
FR47 (1 week) FR |
- | |
| 1997 | L'amour fou L'amour fou |
- |
BE W23 (9 weeks) BE W |
|
| 1997 | Chiquita Je ne t'oublie pas |
FR79 (2 weeks) FR |
- | |
| 2002 | Ensemble on gagnera Un slow pour s'aimer |
FR84 (4 weeks) FR |
- | |
| Tant qu'il y aura des femmes Un slow pour s'aimer |
FR66 (4 weeks) FR |
- | ||
| 2004 | Paix sur la terre Un slow pour s'aimer |
FR94 (2 weeks) FR |
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gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More singles
- 1966: Petite fille , Polydor
- 1969: Sylvie , Barclay
- 1970: Mini maxi Dolly , Barclay
- 1971: Jean , AZ
- 1972: Laisse-moi vivre ma vie , Vogue-Japon
- 1973: Quand vient le soir on se retrouve (FR:gold)
- 1973: Viens te perdre dans mes bras (FR:gold)
- 1974: N'oublie jamais (+ Si je te demande ) Vogue
- 1975: Mal do me fais mal , Vogue
- 1976: Baby dollar , Vogue
- 1977: On comprend toujours quand c'est trop tard , Vogue
- 1978: Sois romantique , Vogue
- 1979: Via Italia (+ Seul ), Vogue
- 1980: Via Italia (+ N'oublie jamais nous deux ), Vogue
- 1981: Je veux chanter la nostalgie , Vogue
- 1982: Tu veux rester libre , Vogue-Japon
- 1983: Aimer , Vogue
- 1987: Nina Ninouschka , Trema
- 1989: Une simple histoire d'amour , Trema
- 1990: Est ce que tu es seule ce soir , TREMA-Pathé Marconi
- 1994: Fou d'elle (Live Olympia 94), MBM-BMG
- 1996: Funiculi Funicula (promo), MBM-BMG
- 1998: Je veux tout , MBM-BMG
- 1999: Volare , MBM-BMG
- 2001: Mourir d'amour (promo live Olympia 2000), MBM-BMG
- 2003: Méditerranée / Quand Tino chantait , MBM-BMG
- 2005: Et si on parlait d'amour (promo), BMG Media
- 2007: Une rose dans le désert , MBM-BMG-Sony-Columbia-Vogue
- 2008: Somethin 'stupid (promo live tour 2008), MBM-Sony-BMG
- 2009: Somethin 'stupid + clip (live tour 2008), MBM-Sony Music
- 2010: C'est plus fort que moi / Chanteur d'amour / Ils font un rêve , MBM-Sony Music
- 2011: La Tarentelle d'amour (promo tour 2011), MBM-Sony Music
- 2012: Je n'ai pas fini de t'aimer , MBM-Sony Music
- 2013: Amor latino / Qu'as tu fait de moi / Ok pour t'emmener , MBM-Sony Music
Video albums
- 1990: Forest National 1990 - Live 90
- 1994: Spectacle au Canada - Live 94
- 1996: 25 ans d'Amour - Olympia 1996
- 1998: Olympia 1998 - Live 98
- 2000: 2000 to the D'amour - Olympia 2000
- 2000: La vidéo du Siècle
- 2001: karaoke
- 2003: Olympia 2002 - Live 2002
- 2006: Olympia 2005 - Live 2005
- 2006: Olympia 2002, Olympia 2005 et Karaoke
- 2008: Ma vidéo d'Or - 20 ans d'images coup de coeur
- 2009: Tours 2008 de l'Olympia à Forest National - Live 2008
- 2009: La vidéo d'Or de mes tendre années
- 2011: Tours 2011 - Spectacle Anniversaire
- 2015: 30 ans d'Olympia - Olympia 2014
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
 platinum
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Sales | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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 Belgium (BEA)
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- |
4 × gold4th
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- | 90,000 | ultratop.be |
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France (SNEP)
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3 × silver3
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28 × gold28
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platinum1
|
4,945,000 | infodisc.fr snepmusique.com |
| All in all |
3 × silver3
|
32 × gold32
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platinum1
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Awards
- 1999: Chevalier de l ' Ordre de Léopold II. (Knight of Art and Literature of the Order of Leopold II.) From the hands of the Belgian Minister of Culture Pierre Hazette3.
- 2008: Honorary citizen of the city of Wanze (Belgium).
- 2009: Commander of the Star of Italian Solidarity from the hands of the Italian Consul in Liège with a license from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . This award was presented to Frédéric François in front of 10,000 people in Blégny-Mine, the only mining museum in Belgium. He was the first Italian immigrant artist to receive this award.
- 2011: Ambassador of the Province of Liège
- 2012: Awarded the keys to his hometown Lercara Friddi, Province of Palermo, Sicily (equivalent of the title of honorary citizen)
- 2013: Coeur de Cristal from the hands of the Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo
literature
- 1985: Les yeux charbon (Carrère-Lafon publishing house).
- 2000: Ma Vie (Hors Collection publishing house) (in collaboration with Serge Igor).
- 2005: Autobiography d'un sicilien (Ramsay publishing house).
- 2008: Merci la vie! (Verlag Du Rocher) (in collaboration with the photographer Patrick Carpentier).
- 2011: Une vie d'amour [proof incomplete].
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chart sources: FR BEW
- ↑ http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=301319
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | François, Frédéric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barracato, Francesco (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian singer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lercara Friddi , Sicily |