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- SYLVIE VARTAN, FRENCH ROCK SINGER/ENTERTAINERARCHIVE NEWS: 2023, 2022, 2021,2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
SYLVIE VARTAN'S NEW FORM OF PARIS LIVE 2021: RECITAL AT THEATRE EDOUARD VII. VARTAN FACES FANS' NEVER DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS.
SYLVIE VARTAN 60TH ANNIVERSARY
OF STAGE CAREER IN 2021 !
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French popular music in Japan: Just my humble opinion or one fact that I particularly notice for the past couple of years in Tokyo when drop by the record store Tower Records (*) (in Shibuya, Shinjuku). Their display space of the French music is reduced to almost two-thirds and this direct showcase looks flat now. Perhaps no new releases or artists to cover or to watch for them. At least, I remember they or the record label strenuously launched Zaz for a year or two.
In fact, neither Japanese radio nor magazines seem to have little room for the French popular music/actuality today or for decades after the late-seventies (I've not looked into the reason) and no phenomenal French hit song since then, while people have easy access to all the music and the info through Internet in our time.
It was 6 years ago Sylvie Vartan's new CD Sylvie In Nashville (Jananese version/April 2014) was exhibited, to my joy. The radio routinely broadcasts, however, the two classics:「Irresistiblement」 「La Plus Belle...」. (* The only large store. popular for their longtime voice No Music, No Life still exists, while their competitors such as HMV/Virgin Megastore closed down about 11 to 16 years ago. Their another pub now: No Vinyl, No Life.)
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- SYLVIE VARTAN LIVE IN PARIS : RECITAL FROM 11 OCTOBER 2021
THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER STAGE CAREER.
photo: Theatre Edouard VII. Paris
SYLVIE, LE RECITAl - LONG-AWAITED NEW FORM OF LIVE, with a small group of exclusive musicians, at Theatre Edouard VII, an established venue opened 1911. That creates a feeling of even stronger expectations for the event, performance of Sylvie Vartan, whose aspiration was to become a theater/film actor. She was born to be a dynamic singer in my eyes, though. (The recital is rescheduled: changed from April to October 2021 because of the prolonged pandeimc covid19.)
A recital of elegant active Sylvie Vartan, who is a rough synonym for Le smoking tuxedo suit to my eyes, rather than a traditional long dress that conveys an image of the good old days' "chanson" singers, late in her career. Vartan - far from or opposite of a manipulated still-life or something on the scene - in a super chic smoking noire in a minimalist decor or whatever throughout her career! A dream.
Sylvie Vartan, a formidable live performer who is varied in personality and gifts and not to be categorized into one certain type. Her earlier grand spectacles also had an apect of recital with soulful singing and all. Many must have been impressed by her renditions. It's not a regular singing kind of literal, manipulated, controled, finess. It's that delicate but still rough aruond the edge and dynamic, which is a part of the values she has and something irresistible from the beginning.
Never easy to describe her performance in one single phrase. Obviously she has that distinctively wild warm graceful husky voice and characteristic SPIRITED move. Sylvie Vartan in person always far more marvelous in every respect, different from what we indirectly see at a glance on the Internet, TV, etc. That is what I find in every concert in Tokyo. 2018 included.
Sylvie Vartan, not a regular star but an out-of-the-ordinary star of French popular music. 2021 marks Vartan's 60th anniversary as a concert performer. PASSION is what the music is for her. (source: Televised interview of TV TOKYO around end-Sept. 1990 at her Parisien residence, aired in Jan. 1991.)
2021年、シルヴィ・ヴァルタン・ステージ活動歴60周年！
シルヴィ・ヴァルタンは2021年10月にパリの老舗劇場で待望のリサイタル公演を行う。今年開催予定だったが（長引く世界的なCOVID-19禍で）再び期日変更が発表された。公演名と劇場名が示すとおり、ヴァルタンの新しい形のライヴ。ピアノ、チェロ、ギターの出色のミュージシャン3名とコーラス1名のみ伴う。2009年オランピア劇場公演を思い起こさせるが、趣が違う風格のある劇場での一層ミニマルな舞台演出と見える。
何にせよ、私にはヴァルタンは躍動する動的なステージ・パフォーマー。コンサート形式が違えど、衣装に例えれば黒のロングドレスではなくタキシード。ヴァルタンのアーティストの生涯全て、スモーキング姿を見たい。
品位と温もりのある独特のハスキー・ヴォイスと豊かな才能の持ち主ヴァルタンは、一筋縄ではいかぬアーティスト。デビューから数年後のセンセーショナルな1965年（20歳）の初来日や成功はその後の途轍もないキャリアから見ればほんの一瞬。往年のダンス・シーンの多い豪華絢爛な公演にも歌を聴かせるリサイタルの側面があった。長年一緒に踊ったダンサーがある雑誌のインタヴューで、「私が好きな演目は、公演の見せ所であるシルヴィがステージで一人で歌うシーンです」とコメントしていた。
シルヴィ・ヴァルタンの来日公演に行って先ず気付くのは、直に見る・聞くヴァルタンは、TVやネットに溢れる画像や映像などと違うこと。本来、本質的に美しい人だが、声も魅力的で冴えた動作など格好良さは別格。つまり、遥かに素敵で目が丸くなる。一安心というより、一目で、なお可能性を秘めると確信して全身に一気に希望が湧く。2021年はコンサート・ツアーも予定。異彩を放つシルヴィ・ヴァルタンは、規格外のスター。実は幼少期から俳優を夢見ていたヴァルタン。 2021年、シルヴィ・ヴァルタンは歌手デビュー60周年を迎える。非凡な人生とキャリアの軌跡。直近の2018年東京公演を思い起こすたびに凡人には異星人に見える。日本公演を祈る。
1991年1月、テレビ東京の番組「MUSIC MY LOVE - 音楽マイ・ラブ - 世界のトーク＆ミュージッック」 のインタヴュー（1990年9月末パリの邸宅）でシルヴィはこう答えている。: 「この仕事は弛まぬ "努力" ではない、 好きだから続けている」。 （音楽とは一言で何かとの問いに）「 PASSION ! (情熱) 」。
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- FRENCH MAGAZINE, SCHNOCK
SYLVIE VARTAN SPECIAL EDITION (no.34/SPRING ISSUE 2020)
Superb Sylvie Vartan is on the front cover of unique French quarterly periodical SCHNOCK, the main feature (one third of the total pages 175) of the Spring edition issued in March 2020. Their motif of this impressive cover illustration is taken from Sylvie Vartan's standout English-language album of 1979: I DON'T WANT THE NIGHT TO END. Their choice and dessin that is bold still nicely done with a certain grace are quite contrary to other banal stereotypical views and well refrect one aspect of the artist Sylvie Vartan. The contents: Interview with Sylvie Vartan, her history, their own top 20 of Vartan's songs including PARLE-MOI DE TA VIE with comments: L'une des plus belles chansons francaises. (One of the most beautiful French songs.)
The front cover drawing and interview (what Vartan says about herself) are most interesting to me.
- SYLVIE VARTAN BY PIERRE ET GILLES - EXHIBITION IN PARIS : 11/2019-02/2020
photo from the catalogue of Pierre & Gilles exhibition in Tokyo 1995 : "ICE LADY" ("LA DAME EN ROUGE") - Sylvie Vartan 1994
画家・写真家ピエールとジルの大掛かりな展覧会が（2019年11月から2020年2月まで3ヶ月間）フィルハーモニー・ド・パリで開催される。彼らは70年代後半から一緒に活動している。シルヴィ・ヴァルタンなどポップ・スターや女優などを題材にし、華美で不思議な非現実的世界を作り出す。ヴァルタンとのコラボレーションが始まったのは1994年とのこと。10代の頃シルヴィ・ヴァルタンのファンだったピエールが当時描いたヴァルタンの似顔絵まで掲げた特設スペース「シルヴィ・ヴァルタンの部屋」も話題。初日はヴァルタンも来場。
ピエールとジルは、シルヴィ・ヴァルタンとの交流が比較的多い。ヴァルタンの2009年9月フランス発売のアルバムと同年のパリ・オランピア劇場公演の公演ポスターも制作。（本作の日本版アルバム・ジャケットは日本独自のもので、シルヴィの一般受けする普通のポートレート写真を採用）また、ヴァルタンの人道活動、アソシエーション・シルヴィ・ヴァルタン・プール・ブルガリィ（1990年12月設立）が毎年年末に発行するグリーティングカードのデザインを一度手掛けたこともある。
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- SYLVIE VARTAN LIVE IN PARIS 2019 - 23/24.10.2019 AT GRAND REX
Sylvie Vartan's last homage concert to ex-husband (1965-1980) Johnny Hallyday (1943-2017) and 70% of the program are from his repertoire under the theme of her latest cover album Avec Toi... (2018). Such an intense and sincere attitue of Vartan. The closing song, a slow and quiet music is good, however, it feels sort of sad and dark in a whining tone. It has a different kind of sadness or melancholy from those Sylvie Vartan's proper songs have. Her music has a touch of optimism that kind of defines Sylvie Vartan.
She is professionally motivated by her emotions of the moment and authentic feeling goes on in her own way, though.
Sylvie Vartan once described the music as PASSION, in a televised interview of Japanese TV in Jan. 1991 (filmed at her Parisien residence in Sept 1990, just before her 1st concert live in Sofia). Many devoted fans (myself included) seem hungry for apprealing Vartan music and her new strong original songs and all that, knowing that as looking back across time sometimes, routine performance is the last thing on Sylvie Vartan's mind and that she always looks forward.
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31. 12. 2019 SYLVIE VARTAN ON FRENCH TV F2
photo above: capture French TV France2
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SYLVIE VARTAN'S HOMAGE ALBUM TO J.HALLYDAY (1943-2017) - "AVEC TOI..." (2008)
Sylvie Vartan sings Johnny Hallyday's repertoire that must be familiar to her, as a homage to her ex-husband (married 1965-1980). Contrary to the sepia photo of the CD jacket, it opens with a thrilling bass husky voice of Sylvie Vartan. Most impressively, her message and IN MY LIFE (cover of The Beatles/1965) in the closing of the album are freshly made.
Otherwise, as a whole, it seems to be kind of quickly made and not to prove herself as an artist to the world. Sylvie Vartan, who seems professionally always hungry for a new way of develpping herself, though.
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