Laurent Voulzy

Laurent Voulzy

Laurent Voulzy (born Lucien Voulzy on December 18, 1948 in Paris ) is a French singer and composer .

Life

Voulzy performed for the first time in front of a larger audience as a guitarist in Pascal Danel's band from 1969 to 1974 . His subsequent solo career was based on the collaboration with songwriter Alain Souchon , which lasted over several successful albums.

Voulzy had an international breakthrough in 1977 with his song Rockollection . So he appeared in the German music programs Musikladen and disco . Although he also recorded an English and Spanish version, the original French version was the internationally successful one. With the songs Le Soleil Donne and Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde he celebrated his greatest single successes in France, while he was able to place an album at the top of the charts with La Septième Vague .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
2002	Avril	FR3 × 2 Double platinum (90 weeks)FR	BE W4th gold (56 weeks)BE W	CH50 (9 weeks) CH	RCA
2006	La Septième Vague	FR1 diamond (75 weeks)FR	BE W1 platinum (62 weeks)BE W	CH7th gold (16 weeks)CH	RCA
2008	Recollection	FR2 platinum (31 weeks)FR	BE W1 (22 weeks) BE W	CH20 (8 weeks) CH	RCA
2011	Lys and Love	FR2 × 3 Triple platinum (95 weeks)FR	BE W1 platinum (91 weeks)BE W	CH30 (9 weeks) CH	Columbia
2014	Alain Souchon & Laurent Voulzy	FR1 × 3 Triple platinum (80 weeks)FR	BE W1 (67 weeks) BE W	CH8 (16 weeks) CH	Warner with Alain Souchon
2017	Belem	FR6 (16 weeks) FR	BE W4 (22 weeks) BE W	CH31 (5 weeks) CH	Columbia
2019	Mont Saint-Michel	FR24 (... weeks) FR	BE W24 (14 weeks) BE W	CH89 (2 weeks) CH	Columbia

More studio albums

• Le Coeur Grenadine (1979, RCA)
• Bopper En Larmes (1983, RCA)
• Caché Derrière (1992, Ariola, FR:platinum)

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
2004	Le gothique flamboyant pop dancing tour	FR82 (10 weeks) FR	BE W45 (12 weeks) BE W	-	RCA
2013	Lys & Love Tour	FR18 (17 weeks) FR	BE W28 (25 weeks) BE W	-	Columbia
2016	Le concert	FR14th platinum (17 weeks)FR	BE W13 (33 weeks) BE W	CH75 (2 weeks) CH	with Alain Souchon

More live albums

• Voulzy Tour (1994, Ariola, FR:× 2Double gold )

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
2003	Seasons, le double best of	FR- gold FR	BE W8 (41 weeks) BE W	CH46 (5 weeks) CH	RCA
2012	Belle île en mer 1977/1988	FR167 platinum (3 weeks)FR	-	-

More compilations

• Les Essentiels (2002, RCA)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		FR	BE W	DE	CH
1977	Rockollection	FR- platinum FR	-	DE8 (19 weeks) DE	CH3 (16 weeks) CH
1984	Desir, desir	FR29 (4 weeks) FR	-	-	-	with Véronique Jannot
1986	Belle-île-en mer, Marie Galante	FR20th silver (20 weeks)FR	-	-	-
1987	My Song of You	FR31 (10 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1989	Le soleil donne	FR21 (13 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1992	Paradoxal system Caché Derrière	FR10 (16 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1993	Le rêve du pêcheur Caché Derrière	FR37 (4 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1995	Rockollection (Live)	FR37 (12 weeks) FR	BE W39 (1 week) BE W	-	-
2002	La fille d'Avril Avril	FR26 (14 weeks) FR	-	-	-
	Amélie Colbert Avril	FR36 (17 weeks) FR	-	-	-
2006	Derniers baisers La Septième Vague	FR8 (25 weeks) FR	BE W17 (5 weeks) BE W	-	CH96 (1 week) CH
2011	Jeanne Lys and Love	FR14 (42 weeks) FR	BE W4 (24 weeks) BE W	-	-
2014	Derrière les mots Alain Souchon & Laurent Voulzy	FR35 (10 weeks) FR	BE W22 (2 weeks) BE W	-	-	with Alain Souchon
	La baie des fourmis Alain Souchon & Laurent Voulzy	FR197 (1 week) FR	-	-	-	with Alain Souchon

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

• 1978: Bubble Star
• 1979: Le Cœur grenadine
• 1979: Karin Redinger
• 1979: Cocktail chez mademoiselle
• 1980: Surfing Jack
• 1981: Idéal simplifié
• 1983: Bopper en larmes
• 1983: love
• 1985: Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde
• 1993: Le Pouvoir des fleurs
• 1993: Caché derrière
• 2001: Une héroïne
• 2003: Là où je vais
• 2008: My Song of You
• 2008: Jelly Bean
• 2009: Le vent qui va
• 2011: Jeanne
• 2012: C'était déjà toi
• 2012: En regardant vers le pays de France ( feat.Nolwenn Leroy )
• 2014: Derrière les mots (duet with Alain Souchon )

Awards for music sales

Golden record  France 2013: for the video album Lys & Love Live Platinum record  France 2005: for the video album DVD Live

Diamond record  France 2014: for the video album Lys & Love Live

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

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	105,000	ultratop.be
France (SNEP)	silver1	4 × gold4th	14 × platinum14th	2 × diamond2	4,485,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	silver1	6 × gold6th	16 × platinum16	2 × diamond2

Web links

Commons : Laurent Voulzy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Laurent Voulzy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Laurent Voulzy website (French)
• Biography of Laurent Voulzy , on Radio France Internationale (French)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: FR BEW DE CH