Mélanie Pain
Mélanie Pain (* in Caen ) is a French pop and chanson singer . She became known through her work on the band project Nouvelle Vague .
biography
The later Nouvelle Vague singer initially pursued a different career. After studying political science at the University of Aix-en-Provence , she moved to Paris to work as a web designer in an advertising agency .
As an electropop singer she was successful in 2003 on the M83 album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts . In 2004 vocal parts followed on the album First Date by the French composer and electronic producer Villeneuve . Mélanie Pain became known to a larger audience as a regular member of the New Wave co-association project Nouvelle Vague, where she lent her voice to a dozen songs - including The Killing Moon, Ever Fallen In Love, Dance With Me, Blue Monday and Sweet and Tender Hooligan . Together with Camille , Phoebe Killdeer , Marina Celeste and others, she was one of the band's changing singers. Involved in around a quarter of the Nouvelle Vague studio recordings, she also made a name for herself on live tours as an important vocal part of the band. In 2007 she intoned the song "The Switchboard Girl" for the album "We Don't Just Disappear" of the Piano Magic side project Future Conditional.
Pain was also able to benefit from her Nouvelle Vague experience as a solo singer. In 2009 her album My Name was released , on which she sings two tracks in a duet - with the Norwegian folk musician Thomas Dybdahl and the French pop rock singer Julien Doré . Was produced My Name Nouvelle Vague co-founder Marc Collin . The title Helsinki , sung with Julien Doré, was released as a single that same year; likewise the decoupling Ignore-moi . Promoted among others by the Cologne label Le Pop , which specializes in the new French scene , she also performed regularly in Germany - sometimes together with Camille (also Nouvelle Vague) and Marianne Dissard .
music
Mélanie Pain's voice is often characterized as girlish-bright, occasionally even as lolita-like . If relevant promotional texts indicate rock and wave bands like the Pixies , Sonic Youth and PJ Harvey as early role models , the singer redefined her solo career. She named Françoise Hardy , Nick Cave , Nancy Sinatra and Leonard Cohen as new role models . Stylistically, on the occasion of My Name there was a stronger orientation towards singer / songwriter - country and Americana .
On the occasion of a concert at the Frankfurt music club Das Bett at the end of 2009, which was canceled at short notice , Mélanie Pain was announced as follows: “Above all, Mélanie does not forget the necessary pinch of pepper, despite all the sweetness - and thus prevents the sugar shock that one knows from other chanteuses. Here, the sweet harmonizes wonderfully with the sour - and Madame Pain will soon be able to bake larger rolls with it. Melanie Pain has a voice that is both deep and full of lightness, emotional and distant, supple and brittle. They are folk-pop chansons in English and French, which bring back memories of nightly visits to the café, their dry, smoky voice gives us access to an exciting world. "
Discography
With Nouvelle Vague
- Nouvelle Vague ( Peacefrog Records , 2004)
- Bande à Part (Peacefrog Records, 2006)
- 3 (Peacefrog Records, 2009)
- Coleurs sur Paris (Kwaidan Records, 2010)
- I could be happy (Kwaidan Records, 2016)
solo
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My Name (album; Wagram , 2009)
- Helsinki (single; Wagram, 2009)
- Ignore-moi (single; Wagram, 2009)
- Bye Bye Manchester (album; JSM , 2013)
- Parachute (album; Kwaidan Records, 2016)
Compilations
- M83. Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts ( Mute Records , 2004)
- Villeneuve: First Date ( Pias / Rough Trade , 2006)
- Le Pop-les Filles ( Le Pop , 2008)
- Le Pop 5 (Le Pop, 2009)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Concert announcement text "Jenseits des Mainstrom", Das Bett, November 2009 ( Memento from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pain, Mélanie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pop and chanson singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caen |