Yannick Noah

Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah in 2011 at a concert
Nation:	France
Birthday:	May 18, 1960
Size:	193 cm
1st professional season:	1977
Resignation:	1991
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 3,440,660
singles
Career record:	476: 210
Career title:	23
Highest ranking:	3 (July 7 1986)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	213: 109
Career title:	16
Highest ranking:	1 (August 25 1986)
Weeks as No. 1:	19th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Yannick Noah (born May 18, 1960 in Sedan ) is a former French tennis player and today's pop singer with Cameroonian roots.

Tennis career

His best placement in the ATP world rankings was in 1986 position 3. He won 23 tournaments in singles, including the 1983 French Open . In the same year he was voted France's Sportsman of the Year (“ Champion des champions ”) by the sports newspaper L'Équipe . In 1984 he won the French Open in doubles with Henri Leconte . He led the double world rankings for a total of 19 weeks.

As team leader of the French national tennis team, he won the Davis Cup twice with the men (1991, 1996 and 2017) and once the Fed Cup with the women (1997).

Career as a singer

Noah was particularly successful as a singer with the chansons Aux arbres citoyens , which reached number 1 in the French charts, Saga Africa and Métisse (s) . In 2006 he received a gold record for his album Charango . On July 2, 2005, he performed at Live 8 in Paris.

Others

In addition to his career as a singer, he works as a consultant for the Cameroon national football team . He is also committed to French aid organizations such as Les Restos du Cœur and the Les enfants de la Terre association he founded . He also regularly takes part in the annual Les Enfoirés charity concert , the largest media event in the Francophone world.

In January 2007, the French first division soccer team Paris Saint-Germain signed him as a consultant.

His father Zacharie came from Cameroon and was a professional footballer, his mother Marie-Claire is French and was a teacher. From Noah's first marriage to the Swedish photo model (Miss Sweden 1978) Cecilia Rodhe , his eldest children Joakim and Yéléna come. Joakim Noah is a professional basketball player in the NBA and a French national player. Yéléna Noah works as a photo model.

In 2005 he was voted the most popular French in a poll by the French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche . In a poll conducted by the Ifop Institute in January 2010, Noah was voted France's most popular figure for the fifth time in a row.

Chart successes

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	CH	BE W
2000	Yannick Noah	FR1 diamond (106 weeks)FR	CH26th gold (45 weeks)CH	BE W2 platinum (65 weeks)BE W	First published: September 19, 2000
2002	live	FR16 gold (19 weeks)FR	CH82 (2 weeks) CH	BE W40 (3 weeks) BE W	First published: October 5, 2002
2003	Pokhara	FR1 diamond (105 weeks)FR	CH23 gold (41 weeks)CH	BE W2 gold (87 weeks)BE W	First published: August 25, 2003
2004	Yannick Noah Live	FR134 (6 weeks) FR	-	-	First published: October 17, 2004
2005	Métisse (s)	FR2 platinum (69 weeks)FR	CH28 (13 weeks) CH	BE W4th gold (32 weeks)BE W	First published: June 6, 2005
2006	Charango	FR1 diamond (129 weeks)FR	CH7th gold (40 weeks)CH	BE W1 platinum (85 weeks)BE W	First published: October 13, 2006
2010	Frontières	FR1 diamond (94 weeks)FR	CH4 (19 weeks) CH	BE W1 platinum (60 weeks)BE W	First published: August 23, 2010
2012	Homage	FR1 platinum (25 weeks)FR	CH19 (8 weeks) CH	BE W1 (28 weeks) BE W	First published: May 28, 2012
2014	Combats ordinaires	FR1 platinum (34 weeks)FR	CH20 (13 weeks) CH	BE W2 (46 weeks) BE W	First published: June 2, 2014
2019	Bonheur indigo	FR5 (13 weeks) FR	CH40 (6 weeks) CH	BE W6 (18 weeks) BE W	First published: September 6, 2019

more publishments

• 1991: Black And What! (FR:gold)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	CH	BE W
1991	Saga Africa	FR2 gold (22 weeks)FR	-	-	First published: June 1, 1991
	Don't Stay (Far Away Baby)	FR39 (9 weeks) FR	-	-	First published: November 30, 1991
2000	Simon papa tara	FR12 gold (33 weeks)FR	-	BE W32 (5 weeks) BE W	First published: August 26, 2000
2001	La voix des sages (No More Fighting)	FR3 gold (29 weeks)FR	-	BE W16 (14 weeks) BE W	First published: May 26, 2001
2002	Les Lionnes	FR16 (16 weeks) FR	-	-	First published: January 12, 2002
	Jamafrica	FR52 (9 weeks) FR	-	-	First published: June 22, 2002
2003	Si tu savais	FR22 (21 weeks) FR	CH77 (3 weeks) CH	BE W31 (6 weeks) BE W	First published: September 7, 2003
2004	Eyelet	FR13 (21 weeks) FR	CH41 (14 weeks) CH	BE W19 (13 weeks) BE W	First published: January 18, 2004
	Mon Eldorado (you soleil ...)	FR19 (20 weeks) FR	CH59 (11 weeks) CH	BE W23 (12 weeks) BE W	First published: June 27, 2004
2005	Métis (se)	FR11 gold (20 weeks)FR	CH41 (10 weeks) CH	BE W22 (12 weeks) BE W	First published: June 18, 2005 with Disiz la Peste
2006	Donne-moi une vie	FR8th silver (29 weeks)FR	CH46 (19 weeks) CH	BE W5 (27 weeks) BE W	First published: September 23, 2006
2007	Aux arbres citoyens	FR1 gold (26 weeks)FR	CH41 (13 weeks) CH	BE W2 (26 weeks) BE W	First published: February 17, 2007
	Destination ailleurs	FR8 (24 weeks) FR	-	BE W19 (11 weeks) BE W	First published: June 23, 2007
2010	Angela	-	CH71 (3 weeks) CH	BE W8 (22 weeks) BE W	First published: May 3, 2010
2011	Ça me regarde	FR80 (2 weeks) FR	-	BE W34 (9 weeks) BE W	First published: January 29, 2011
2012	Redemption song	FR48 (8 weeks) FR	-	BE W33 (2 weeks) BE W	First published: April 2, 2012
2014	On court	FR47 (22 weeks) FR	-	BE W42 (1 week) BE W	First published: May 19, 2014
2019	Viens	-	-	BE W17 (11 weeks) BE W	First published: June 14, 2019

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Video albums

• 2004: Quand Vous Etes La (FR:diamond)
• 2007: Un Autre Voyage (FR:diamond)
• 2011: Yannick Noah Tour (FR:diamond)

Awards for music sales

Platinum record  Europe 2004: for the album Yannick Noah 2004: for the album Pokhara

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)	-	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3	-	110,000	ultratop.be
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	(2,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
France (SNEP)	silver1	7 × gold7th	3 × platinum3	7 × diamond7th	5,510,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	3 × gold3	-	-	60,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	silver1	12 × gold12	8 × platinum8th	7 × diamond7th

swell

1. ↑ Yannick Noah is the most popular French personality ( memento from January 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR CH BE (Wallonia)
3. ↑ Awards for music sales: CH BE FR1 FR2

Web links

Commons : Yannick Noah  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Yannick Noah (English)
• ITF profile for Yannick Noah (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Yannick Noah (English)
• Yannick Noah in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)
• Official website of Yannick Noah with tracks, tour dates, films, photos