Thursday, October 15, 2009

Johnny Hallyday -Still my Favorite french Singer

Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, some consider him the French equivalent of Elvis Presley.

He has had a 48-year career in music and is one of France's biggest stars. He has completed 400 tours, had 18 platinum albums, performed in front of 15 million people, and sold 100 million records. Today Hallyday is still seen as a top stage performer, giving first class shows in crowded stadiums.

Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock revolution, Johnny, as he is popularly known, became famous in the 1960s for singing rock and roll in French. His first album, Hello Johnny, was released in 1960. He appeared on the American Ed Sullivan Show on July 1, 1962 with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. Many consider Hallyday to have developed well and become a greater performer in his later years, one of his best loved concerts being 100% Johnny: Live à La Tour Eiffel in 2000, which attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5 million television viewers (the show was broadcasted live on french TV). In December 2005, Hallyday had his third number-one single in France, "Mon Plus Beau Noël", dedicated to his adoptive girl Jade. Hallyday's last album is released on 12 November 2007. 'Le Coeur d'un homme' is a blues album and contains a song written for Hallyday by Bono from the band U2, and a duo with bluesman Taj Mahal. 'Always' is the first track to be released from the new album. He remains quite unknown outside of France and that's why he gained the nickname "The biggest Rockstar you've never heard of" in English-speaking countries.

Still my favorite song of his.

"Un Jour Viendra" lyrics
un jour viendra tu me dira je t'aime, du bout du coeur mais le dire quand meme, un simple mot et l'aveu d'une larme aux bords tes yeux feront de moi un homme heureux, un jour viendra tu saura toutes ces choses, qui ont fait ma vie bien plus noire que rose tu comprendra mes pudeurs et tous ces mots qui me font peurs, que j'ai caché come un voleur, toi, c'est le ciel qui t'a envoyévers moi pour me réapprendre à aimeret attends, et laisse faire les jours, laisse le temps au temps et a l'amour, un jour viendra tu me dira je t'aime et j'aimerai, un jour viendra tu me dira je t'aime, du bout des yeux mais le dire quand meme, dans le ciel de ton regard lire ton regard est ma victoire, un jour viendra tu m'aimera, toi, c'est la vie qui t'as envoyévers moi qui n'ai jamais fait que passer, a coté des choses essentiels. par defit pour bruler mes ailes, un jour viendra tu me dira je t'aime et j'aimerai, attend, laisse faire les jours, laisse le temps au temps et à l'amour, un jour viendra tu me dira je t'aime et je t'aimerai, je t'aimerai, je t'aimerai

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