Renaud
Sign in to saveRenaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (; born 11 May 1952 in Paris), known as Renaud, is a French singer-songwriter.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952
- Works
- 39
Top works
- Visions
- Critique radicale de la réalité
- Positifs
- Main armée
- Ditactique
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Film & TV
Acting · Paris, France
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud, born in Paris on 11 May 1952, is a popular French singer, songwriter and actor. His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style. Several of his songs are popular classics in France, including the sea tale "Dès que le vent soufflera", the irreverent "Laisse béton", the ballad "Morgane de toi" and the nostalgic "Mistral…
Known for
- Renaud, à cœur perdu — Self (archive footage)2026
- Stars 80 vs Stars 90, la grande battle2025
- Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés — Self (archive footage)2025
- Gaëtan Roussel : Création éclect!que aux Francofolies de La Rochelle — Self2024
- Renaud, souvenirs, souvenirs — Self2023
- Joyeux anniversaire Renaud — Self2022
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)2022
- Renaud, le gosse de Paname — Self (archive footage)2021
- Mitterrand, président culturel — Self (archive footage)2021
- Renaud, my brother — Self2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 235,150
- Total plays
- 5,099,198
Tags
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Extremely versatile and respected French singer-songwriter. His music is a crossover of folk, rock, blues and punk. Active since the 70s, Renaud has written some very controversial songs during his musical career, the most famous one (to British readers at least) praising all women as being better than men except Margaret Thatcher, saying that if he comes back as a dog in his next life, he will use her as a lampost... He is famously recovering from alcoholism with some degree of success. <a href
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fast unfolding of communities in large networks
· 2008 · cited 16,455x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,723x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,391x
- Efficacy and Safety of a Specific Inhibitor of the BCR-ABL Tyrosine Kinase in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
· 2001 · cited 4,153x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,581x
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Key facts
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- Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan
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- Paris, France
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- Paris
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- Guitar
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians >.years_active
- 1975–present
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Key dates
- Born
- 11 May 1952
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Manuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 15th arrondissement of Paris
- Father
- Olivier Séchan
- Occupation
- musician
- Employer
- Charlie Hebdo
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
Article
17 sectionsContents
- Career
- Early work
- Middle period
- Resurgence
- Personal life
- Discography
- Studio albums
- Live albums
- Compilations
- Singles
- Filmography
- Film
- Television
- Awards
- See also
- References
- External links
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (; born 11 May 1952 in Paris), known as Renaud, is a French singer-songwriter.
With twenty-six albums to his credit, selling nearly twenty million copies, he is one of France's most popular singers. Several of his songs are popular classics in France, including the sea tale "Dès que le vent soufflera", the irreverent "Laisse béton", the ballad "Morgane de toi" and the nostalgic "Mistral gagnant". His songs, with their slang lyrics and idiosyncratic Parisian phrasing, deal with both light and serious themes, alternating humor, emotion, and social criticism.
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