Jean Beauvoir

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Jean Beauvoir

Jean Beauvoir (* 1962 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American singer , bassist , guitarist , multi-instrumentalist as well as a songwriter , producer and entertainer .

Life

Beauvoir was born in Chicago to parents with a Haitian background. He played drums as a child and switched to bass as a teenager . At the age of 15 he was discovered by the manager of the singer Gary US Bonds , accepted into the band and appointed musical director. He then sang the lead in the doo-wop vocal band The Flamingos . Beauvoir took part with both bands alongside Chuck Berry , Little Richard and Bo Didley at the Dick Clark Revival concerts in the USA and thus gained his first musical experience.

At the age of 15, Beauvoir was thrown out of the house by his father because he had decided to become a musician. He moved into his own apartment with the band members at the time. At the time punk rock was becoming popular, Beauvoir moved to New York City and applied for an ad from the US band Plasmatics , which was looking for a bassist. Between 1980 and 1981 he recorded three albums with the band, whereupon he played the keyboard as well as the bass . During this time, he grew the blond mohawk , which he also wore later.

After the release of the album Beyond the Valley of 1984 he left the Plasmatics and became a band member of Steve Van Zandt's Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul for two albums .

The guitarist of the band K i ss , Paul Stanley , he wrote and produced some songs for their thirteenth album Asylum . Beauvoir played bass and in the absence of Gene Simmons took over the backing vocals for Who Wants to Be Lonely and Uh! All night .

He began his solo career with the album Drums Along the Mohawk , which was released in Great Britain in 1986 by Virgin Records . That same year, Sylvester Stallone selected the title Feel the Heat for his film Cobra . The song reached top 10 positions on the European and Australian charts and reached number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Due to the success, the single Drums Along the Mohawk was released in the USA , which reached number 93 on the Billboard 200 charts.

Beauvoir was involved as a producer and co-writer on the song My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down by the band Ramones , which was released under the title Bonzo Goes to Bitburg . He produced and arranged the theme song Pet Sematary with the Ramones for the film adaptation of Stephen King's Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals . The song was also the most successful radio hit among American musicians and reached number 4 on the Billboards Modern Rock chart . For the films Shocker , Spotless , School of Rock , Guilty - A Murderous Order , Rock'n'Roll High School Forever , Berlin Nights , Die Chaoscamper , Unthinkable - The Price of Truth and Why Him? he produced and arranged other music. For the 2004 film Crazy Christmas , Beauvoir contributed the theme song Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) played by the Ramones and set the credits for Merry Christmas to All of the World .

In 1988 Beauvoir founded the multi-ethnic band Voodoo-X. In addition to himself, she included the half-Indian Tommy Lafferty, the Hawaiian Iwan Wong, the Alaskan Ernie Lake and the German keyboardist Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, who moved to the USA after leaving Nena . The band name is a combination of the components "magic" and "mysterious". Their style has been described as "[g] lamorous heavy metal, somewhere between LA glitter and brutal metal-rock ". After the album Vol. 1 - The Awakening and a European tour as the opening act for Saga in March 1990, Voodoo-X broke up and Beauvoir joined the Crown of Thorns in Los Angeles .

Beauvoir founded and managed as CEO the Voodoo Island Entertainment Group with the affiliated business units Voodo Island Records and Voodoo Island Productions . He is also the founder and CEO of Hot Boy Music and Tigre Noire Music . Between 2004 and 2010, Beauvoir went for six and a half years from the stage and served as CEO, the media company Renegade by Steven Van Zandt .

For his band Crown of Thorns , in which Beauvoir is active as a singer, he continued to write and produce. On June 9, 2009, the 2008 album Faith was re-released in the US on the Lost Cathedral Sony Red label .

In 2014, Beauvoir was an executive producer on the television show Hit starring comedian Kristian Valen , which aired on SBS Discovery Television . He also released the album American Trash worldwide with Micki Free in 2015 under the project name Beauvoir / Free on the Italian label Frontiers Records .

In May 2015, Beauvoir was recruited as the US CEO of the Norwegian children-focused animation company City of Friends . He has since resigned from this task.

On October 22nd, Beauvoir appeared at the three-day Rockingham Festival as the second artist after headlining Steelheart . In 2016 further appearances followed at the Bang Your Head Festival in Germany , the Graspop Festival in Belgium , the Spanish Azkena Rock Festival in Spain and the Ramblin Man Fair in Great Britain.

In June and October 2018, Beauvoir released two best-of albums with Rock Masterpieces I & II . In the January 2019 documentary Band versus Brand by writer and director Bob Nalbandian , Beauvoir was part of the musicians who explored the tension between the integrity of a successful band and the exploitative side of the music industry. In May of the same year he took over the role of Beal in the film The Killer's Requiem by Brian McLane . Beauvoir covered the song Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf for a diaper commercial .

Discography

Private

Beauvoir lives in Bonita Springs , Florida .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Reimnitz: Voodoo-X. The cult of sorcerers . In: Horror Infernal . Heavy metal magazine. No. 19 , March 1989, p. 46 f .
  2. ^ Jean Beauvoir | Biography & History. Retrieved April 20, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ Jean Beauvoir. (No longer available online.) 2018, archived from the original on September 20, 2018 ; accessed on April 20, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c FEATURE: Black Punk History — Jean Beauvoir, the ultimate renaissance man. February 15, 2016, accessed April 20, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Martin Booe, Los Angeles Daily News: JEAN BEAUVOIR TAKES MELLOW ROUTE. Retrieved April 20, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ a b c [ Jean Beauvoir at Allmusic (English) Template: Allmusic / Maintenance / Mandatory parameter ID is missingJean Beauvoir] at Allmusic
  7. ↑ Holger Stratmann (Ed.): Rock Hard Enzyklopädie . 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years. Rock Hard GmbH, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , Beauvoir, Jean, p. 38 f .
  8. ^ Jean Beauvoir - About. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Jean Beauvoir interviewed by The Bailey Bros (2010 RockUnited.Com). Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  10. ^ Frontiers Music Srl: Frontiers Music Srl | Record label. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ EPK. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
  12. ↑ Rockingham Live | Nottingham - Three days of the finest melodic hard rock from around the world. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Pampers Cruisers 360 Fit TV Commercial, 'Pampers Cruisers 360' Song by Steppenwolf. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
  14. ↑ Steve Savage |: Review: BAND VS BRAND Documentary By Bob Nalbandian [Official Trailer]. In: Metal Nexus. February 20, 2019, accessed April 21, 2020 (American English).
  15. ↑ The Killer's Requiem (2018) - IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Pampers Cruisers 360 Fit TV Commercial, 'Pampers Cruisers 360' Song by Steppenwolf. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
  17. ^ Charles Runnells: A punk icon in Bonita: Ex-Plasmatics member rocks New Year's Eve. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Beauvoir, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer, bassist, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and a songwriter, producer and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois