Christian Décamps

The founder and lead singer of People from france rock-band Ange, Christian Décamps has been around the forefront of People from france progressive rock for a lot more than three years. His albums with Ange — such as the Gran Prix du Academy Charles Cros-winning Par les Fils de Mandrin in 1976 and a tribute to French composers Michel Polnareff, Jacques Brel, Claude Nougaro, Charles Aznavour, and Jacques Dutronc, A Propos De, in 1982 — offered a lot more than three million copies. Their debut solitary, “Tout Feu Tout Flamme (Any Open fire Any Fire),” released in 1970, continues to be a French rock and roll classic. Shaped in past due 1969, Décamps and Ange explored significantly adventurous music. Producing their concert debut having a satirical rock and roll opera, La Fantastique Epopee du General Machin, on January 3, 1970, they performed in Décamps’ symphonic rock and roll ballet Seve Qui Peut, influenced by French novelist Louis Preguad, in 1989. Inside a 1997 concert using the Symphony Orchestra of Massey-in-Essone as well as the Opera Theatre of Massey, Décamps released a reorganized edition of Ange a yr after a farewell tour by the initial band. Although the majority of his concentrate continues to be on Ange, Décamps offers periodically stepped in to the spotlight by himself. Furthermore to documenting five impressive single albums — Le Mal d’Adam in 1979, Vu d’un Chien in 1980, Simply une Ligne Bleue in 1990, Nude in 1993, and V’soul Vesoul V’soul in 2001 — he’s penned two books. His memoir, Mes Mots D’Ange et Autres Vers Solitaires, was released, along with all the current lyrics that he previously created for Ange, in 1992. A book, Baba sur les Fosses du Bon Dieu, adopted four years later on.