Jacques Dutronc

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Jacques Dutronc (born 28 April 1943) is a French singer, guitarist, composer, and actor.

He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 1981, and the two have a son (jazz guitarist Thomas Dutronc, 1973).

He has worked with Jacques Lanzmann as a long-time songwriting collaborator.

"Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" (a song akin to "Waterloo Sunset"), "Le Responsable," and "Les Cactus" are among Dutronc's most popular hits. In El Toro et les Cyclones, Dutronc played guitar.

He wrote hit songs for Françoise Hardy in the 1960s before deciding to pursue a fruitful solo career.

His music included traditional French pop and French rock, as well as experimental rock and garage rock.

He later branched out into film acting, beginning in 1973.

For his leading role in Van Gogh, which was directed by Maurice Pialat, he received a Cesar for Best Actor.

Dutronc is "one of the most well-known performers in the French-speaking world," according to the All Music Guide, although he is "unknown in English speaking countries" other than a cult following in the United Kingdom.

Early life

Jacques Dutronc was born in 67 Rue de Provence in Paris's ninth arrondissement, home of his parents, Pierre and Madeleine. His father was a manager for the Coal Distribution Department in Washington state. Jacques attended Rocroy-Saint-Léon elementary school (now a Lyce), the École de la Rue Blanche (now a drama school), and then the École Professionnelle de Dessin Industriel, where he studied graphic design from 1959 to 1962.

Personal life

In 1967, Dutronc formed a friendship with Vogue labelmate Françoise Hardy. Thomas, their son, was born in 1973 and went on to be a popular jazz and pop musician. According to Hardy, they were married in 1981 "for tax reasons." Jacques began working with a stylist who had worked on the set of the film Place Vendôme in 1998. Dutronc and Hardy are now separated, but they are still married and see each other every day.

He now lives in Monticello, Corsica, where he lives.

In 2015, Dutronc revealed that he had a brief friendship with Romy Schneider that lasted as long as they were shooting the film That Most Important Thing: Love.

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Career

Dutronc formed Dutronc in 1960, a guitarist and schoolfriend Hadi Kalafate as bassist, Charlot Bénaroch as drummer, and Daniel Dray as singer (later replaced by André Crudot). They auditioned for Jacques Wolfsohn, the artistic director of Disques Vogue who branded them and gave them the name El Toro et les Cyclones in 1961. "L'Oncle John" and "Le Vagabond" were two singles released by the group, but they were forced to perform military service when Dutronc was obliged to perform military service.

Dutronc briefly played guitar in Eddy Mitchell's backing band and was also given a job at Vogue as Jacques Wolfsohn's assistant. He co-wrote songs for artists such as Zouzou, Cléo, and Françoise Hardy.

Wolfsohn asked Dutronc to collaborate with Jacques Lanzmann, a novelist and editor of Lui magazine, to produce songs for a beatnik singer called Benjamin. Benjamin released an EP in 1966, containing songs by Dutronc and a Lanzmann-Dutronc composition titled "Cheveux longs" (Long Hair). Wolfsohn was disappointed by Benjamin's recording of a song titled "Et moi, et moi, et moi." Hadi Kalafate, Dutronc's former bandmate, was on vocals on a second version of the album. Wolfsohn also asked Dutronc if he would be interested in recording his own version. In September 1966, the single ranked No. 2 in the French charts at No. 2.

Larry Portis, a cultural critic, and Michel Polnaref all at the same time, speaks about "the first French rock music that can be characterized as a musically competent and non-imitative incorporation of African-American and African-American-British influences." Dutronc's creativity in finding the sounds rather than just the syntax of the language marks a departure from French chanson's literary tradition.

The self-titled debut album by Dutronc, which came out at the end of 1966, sold over a million copies and was given a special Grand Prix du Disque by Académie Charles Cros in honor of one of the company's founders. "Les Play Boys," a second single that debuted at number one for six weeks, has sold 600,000 copies.

Dutronc was one of France's most commercially successful French musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has released seven hit albums and more than 20 singles, including two more recent ones: "J'aime les filles" in 1967 and "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" in 1968.

"Dutronc's early hits were rough but clever experiments in European garage rock, like Dutronc's role models Bob Dylan and Ray Davies, and his band had more than enough energy to make them fly (and the creativity to move with the times as psychedelia and hard rock entered the scene at the end of the decade).

The bulk of Dutronc's songs up to 1975 were written by Jacques Lanzmann, but only two were written solely by Dutronc. Anne Ségalen, Lanzmann's wife, has also been credited with several songs. Dutronc wrote three songs with comic-book writer Fred, whose stories were also published for commercial release in 1970. In 1971, Lanzmann, Franck Harvel, and composer Jean-Pierre Bourtayre wrote two songs for a TV adaptation of Arsène Lupin. Lanzmann, Serge Gainsbourg, and Jean-Loup Dabadie are split on writing credits on Dutronc's self-titled 1975 album.

"Et moi, et moi, et moi" was a scriptural change in England, becoming a UK No. 1 in 1973. Mungo Jerry, a 3rd hit.

In 1973, Dutronc began his second career as an actor in the film Antoine et Sébastien, directed by Jean-Marie Périer. That Most Important Thing: Love, directed by Andrzej Zulawski, was Dutronc's second film, and it was a big box-office hit in France. Dutronc devoted the majority of his energies to his acting career in films starring Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, and Maurice Pialat. In 1977, he was nominated for the César Award for best supporting actor for his role in Claude Sautet's Mado. Steven Spielberg said Dutronc was the best French actor of his generation, and he had the honor of writing René Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark. However, Dutronc was not given the position because it was discovered that his English was not strong.

Dutronc began working on a new album under the direction of Jacques Wolfsohn, who now works as an executive at Gaumont Musique in 1980. Both Jacques Lanzmann and Serge Gainsbourg are able to write a Dutronc book, according to Wolfsohn. Wolfsohn suggested to Lanzmann and Gainsbourg that they each work on alternate lyrics for one of Dutronc's musical demos on recording. Lanzmann protested being placed in competition against another writer and was forced to drop out of the competition. Guerre et pets ("War and Farts," Tolstoy's book's title, is included in the album, but only two Lanzmann-Dutronc compositions are included, and it is mainly written by Dutronc and Gainsbourg. "L'hymne à l'amour," the album's lead single, received little airplay because its lyric primarily consisted of racial epithets (the first line, roughly translated, is "goog, towel-head, yid"), and the album was only a modest commercial success. Anne Ségalen, a writer who has since been divorced from Jacques Lanzmann, was invited to a scathing critical reception.

Dutronc's acting career began in the 1980s, and he appeared in films such as Malevil and Barbet Schroeder's Tricheurs. He released C.Q.Dutronc, his second album, in 1987. The bulk of the songs were written by Dutronc alone, although he collaborated with Etienne Daho on one track and with Jean-François Bernardini of the Corsican folk band I Muvrini on another.

Dutronc received the César for Best Actor for his role in Maurice Pialat's biopic Van Gogh in 1992. Dutronc "manages to portray Van Gogh's later years, with semblance of his scraggly face, sunken eyes, and bony frame...the real reason to watch the film, according to critic Christopher Null.

Dutronc debuted three comeback concerts at the Casino de Paris in November 1992, the proceeds of which were released as a film directed by Jean-Marie Périer and as a live album, Dutronc au Casino. Dutronc began working on a new studio album, Brèves rencontres, around this time, but it wasn't announced until 1995.

Dutronc appeared in two films by Patrick Grandpert during the 1990s and was nominated for the best supporting actor award for his role in Nicole Garcia's Place Vendôme.

In Claude Chabrol's 2000 film Merci pour le chocolat, Dutronc appeared. At the 2001 Marrakech International Film Festival, he was named for the César Award for best actor for his role in Jean-Pierre Améris' C'est la vie. He appeared in Michel Blanc's Summer Things in 2002.

Dutronc reunited with Jacques Lanzmann for Madame l'existence in 2003, an album that rock critic Christophe Conte describes as "surpassing, without much apparent effort, everything [Dutronc] has produced in the last two decades" on the album.

In 2005, Dutronc was named Honorary César. Since then, he has appeared in films directed by Gabriel Aghion and Alain Corneau.

Dutronc performed in 2010 for the first time in 17 years and also released recordings from the tour as a live album and DVD. et vous, et vous.

Les Francis, Dutronc's 41st film, was released in 2014.

Dutronc conducted a series of concerts with Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday in Paris Bercy in November 2014 ("The Old Gits"). Following these appearances, Dutronc plans to start recording a new album with his son Thomas.

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