Discovered a vocation to 7 years with a drum offered by her grandparents and is a lifetime that is emerging. Award of Excellence battery to 16 years out of the academy, Renaud HANTSON is a complete artist , musician ( drums, bass, piano) , songwriter and performer with the rare voice . Michel Berger said of him " the best singer of his generation ." From 1987 to today it has released 11 solo albums . In 1988, the second ("Briseur de Coeurs") gives him his first success : "Voyeur" and "C’est du sirop" played relentlessly by radios and M6 . At the same time , he spent two years as Ziggy and Johnny Rockfort in "STARMANIA" by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon. Third album in 1990 and a new collaboration with the tandem BERGER / PLAMONDON who gave him the title role in "LA LÉGENDE DE JIMMY" (rock opera about the life of James Dean) for its creation in Paris . In 1992 released "A.M.O.U.R." and "Des plaies et des bosses" in 1994 with the hit "Apprendre à vivre sans toi" The "Seulement Humain" album , recorded in England , will follow in 1997 with influences of rock , soul and pop , and the appearance of Simon Phillips (TOTO) on drums and Dave Bronze (Eric Clapton) on bass. A serious car accident later, he found Luc Plamondon, 10 years after their first meeting, to integrate troup "NOTRE DAME DE PARIS" from 1999 to 2001 while composing songs from the eponymous album released in 2002 in Universal.
More mature, income of many battles, became patron of the association "ENSEMBLE CONTRE LA SCLEROSE EN PLAQUES" and very different projects, he also spends time with students from his school singing and drums but do not forget his career as a pop-rock singer with 15 songs featured on the album "Je Couche Avec Moi" published in October 2008 with the collaboration between other Pierre PALMADE several texts, but also Fred KOCOUREK, Maryline RICHER and Michael Jones the blues guitars on the song that gives title to the album. In 2009, he released his first "Best of" including 19 tracks, unreleased and excerpts from musicals STARMANIA, LA LEGENDE DE JIMMY and NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS when STARMANIA celebrated its 30th anniversary and after a concert at La Maroquinerie of Paris 6 March 2010.
This year 2010 is also the recording of his most ambitious to date ("OPERA ROCK") includes 20 songs from the greatest French and international musicals album. The securities selected are those most marked Renaud and he feels closest musically and vocally, to whom he tried to bring his personal voice while respecting color writing composers and singers also the leg or the singers who interpreted before him. Some friends singers also made their world on some tracks , Gregori Baquet found in "Roméo et Juliette" and is today a brother for Renaud in their profession acrobats, Pablo Villafranca enjoyed in "Les Dix Commandements" and where Renaud rock on what was originally a ballad, Cyril Paulus composer for many tubes of the "Roi Soleil" who had never really played her own songs and has the honor to do on this album, Lena Ka discovery there few years in a very successful personal version of one of the best titles of Balavoine she made a tube, Barbara Scaff most French of Americans views in "Les Miserables", "Les Années Twist" and "Les Années Zazous" and finally Wenta former partner in Starmania 1988 that the bluesy grit of a French Janis Joplin. The releases date of digipack (including a bonus live DVD) took place in September 2011!
2012 is the year of the publication in March by Flammarion in Pygmalion collection autobiography "POUDRE AUX YEUX (Sexe & drogues & show business)" where Renaud delivers a poignant testimony and life course. A second book "HOMME A FAILLES (Sexe & drogues & show business Tome II)" was released in March 2013 and a CD "LA FISSURE DU TEMPS" Double in December 2012 including the eponymous 2002 album, and “Je Couche avec Moi” published in 2008 and rearranged versions unpublished.
At the same time, he began to give some seminars and conferences for the prevention of addictions. MILDT (Interministerial Mission for the Fight against Drugs and Drug Addiction), which integrates what is represented by education, law, police, justice, care has validated the draft Renaud HANTSON and Dr Laurent Karila through Satan Jokers' concept album "ADDICTIONS". Their project was unanimously approved at the national level and will therefore serve as an object of prevention as they wished. It's a teenage dream come true for Laurent Karila and this is far more important than the top 50 Renaud HANTSON because this recognition of their work together with members of Satan Jokers offers them an unprecedented situation as at music at the level of prevention against drugs ...
Renaud HANTSON released in November 2013 a new solo album entitled "TOUT RECOMMENCER", his first album with 100% new titles for 5 years...
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