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Yann Benoist (born 6 February 1951) is a French session guitarist, performer, singer , composer, conductor, and arranger.

Yann Benoist
"Studio de Bretagne" Auray 2011
Background information
Born (1951-02-06) 6 February 1951 (age 71)
Dinan, France
Genres
  • Jazz
  • jazz fusion
  • blues
  • rock
  • folk
  • pop
  • rhythm and blues
  • funk
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
InstrumentsGuitar
Years active1969-present
Websitewww.yannbenoist.net

Early life


Yann Benoist was born in Dinan, Brittany. At age 8 his parents enrolled him in a music academy. They bought him his first guitar when he was eleven and he started learning to play with friends and different teachers.


Career


When Benoist was 18 he started playing and singing , juggling time between school and gigging with some local bands in Brittany and Normandy.

During 1975 he worked with the Switzerland duet Richard et Samuel [fr]. The next year, he learned for a while with Pierre Cullaz (famous sessionman from the sixties ) in Paris.

By the end of the seventies he was a member of the Francis Bourrec [fr] quartet. They won the first prize at La Défense Jazz Festival  [fr] in 1978. That same year he got a certificate from the Berklee College of Music.

Since then he has worked on stage or sessions for commercials,[1][2][3][4][5] TV movies,[6][7] TV shows,[8] and musical comedies,[9] with numerous French stars such as Renaud, Gilbert Becaud, Serge Lama, Patricia Kaas, Mireille Mathieu, Richard Bohringer, Jean Guidoni, Sylvie Vartan, Sheila (singer), Hugues Aufray, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Julien Clerc, Dave (singer), Patrick Hernandez, Nancy Holloway, Marcel Azzola, Sacha Distel, Murray Head, Maurane, Marie Myriam, Francis Cabrel, Smain, Dorothée, Gilles Servat, William Sheller, Jacques Loussier, and Michel Legrand.

In 1983 he was a member of Space,[10] with Didier Marouani, for the first big tour organized in the USSR. They performed 21 concerts in Moscow's Olympic Stadium, Leningrad's Saint-Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex and Kyiv's Palace of Sports for about 600,000 people, and in 1992 they performed the first concert authorized on the Red Square in Moscow, for 360,000 people.

In 1989 and 2002 he was musical director for Sheila at the Olympia. In 2011 he was conductor for Joel Prevost at the Alhambra.

He is a composer for APM Music and Universal Publishing.


Selective discography



As a leader



As a sideman


Didier Marouani, Yann Benoist, Bunny Rizzitelli (Space Moscou 1983)
Didier Marouani, Yann Benoist, Bunny Rizzitelli (Space Moscou 1983)
Sheila Yann Benoist, Olympia 1999
Sheila Yann Benoist, Olympia 1999
Paris-France-Transit Moscou Place rouge 1983
Paris-France-Transit Moscou Place rouge 1983

Videos


Renaud, J L Roques, Yann Benoist, Zénith 1986, Paris
Renaud, J L Roques, Yann Benoist, Zénith 1986, Paris

DVDs



As a leader



As a sideman



Composer


Gilbert Becaud Yann Benoist Studio Musika 1997
Gilbert Becaud Yann Benoist Studio Musika 1997

including  :Gilbert Bécaud B+B(je t'appartiens) Composer Yann Benoist Lyrics Pierre Delanoë / Manny Curtis


Movie TV scores



Bibliography



References


  1. Slavin, Gil (2008). "Leroy Merlin" (Pub TV).
  2. "Alphapage" (Pub TV). October 1990.
  3. Sharif, Omar (1991). "Tiercé Magazine" (Pub TV).
  4. "Volkswagen Passat" (Pub Tv). March 1994.
  5. "Compotes Andros" (Pub Tv). March 2002.
  6. Mazoyer, Robert (30 November 1994). "Jeanne" (tv movie).
  7. Trotignon, Jean-Luc (1996). "La guerre des poux" (tv movie).
  8. Drucker, Michel. "Champs-Elysées" (tv movie).
  9. Matignon, Rubia (2004). "Et si on chantait".
  10. Marouani, Didier. "Space 1983".
  11. "BYE BYE FEMME". 1987.
  12. "RAINBOW CITY". 1997.
  13. "DÉCALAGE". 2003.
  14. "Surprise". 1982.
  15. "One two three". 1988.
  16. "Les Plus Grands Succes de Sacha Distel". 1989.
  17. "On S'Dit Plus Rien". 1992.
  18. "Da Vinci Vox". May 2006.
  19. Chateigner, Yvon (2008). "L'Amore l'amore".
  20. "Jude Box", Guitarist Magazine, N 232: 122, April 2010
  21. Gérard, Michel (1979). "Les joyeuses colonies de vacances" (comedy).
  22. Mazoyer, Robert (1994). "Jeanne" (comedy).
  23. Trotignon, Jean-Luc (1996). "La Guerre Des Poux" (comedy).




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