Eddy Mitchell

French singer, songwriter and actor Claude Moine, better known as Eddy Mitchell, was born on July 3, 1942 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. His first musical shock came when he saw Bill Haley and His Comets perform at the Olympia in 1958, and he soon achieved success as the lead singer of France's first real rock'n'roll band, Les Chaussettes Noires. He was only 20 in 1962 when he launched his solo career, following in the footsteps of his friend Johnny Hallyday. His first solo album, Voici Eddy... C'était le Soldat Mitchell, broke with the raw sound of Les Chaussettes Noires, from which he officially broke away at the end of 1963. Over the course of his many albums, he alternated between rock'n'roll, ballads and country, and even moved towards a more crooner style in the early 1980s. Among his greatest hits are Sur la Route de Memphis (1976), La Dernière Séance (1977), which gave its name to the TV show he hosted, dedicated to his other passion, cinema, as well as Le Cimetière des Éléphants (1982) and Rio Grande (1993), which won the Victoire de la Musique award for best album of the year. Others, such as Come Back (2010), Héros (2013) and Big Band (2015), confirmed his status on the French scene. In 2014 and 2017, he formed the trio Les Vieilles Canailles with Johnny Hallyday and Jacques Dutronc for a few nostalgic performances. After the album La Même Tribu (Volume 1), released in 2017, he mourned the loss of his friend Johnny Hallyday. His public reunited with him in 2018 on a new opus, La Même Tribu (Volume 2). In 2021, the album Country Rock, which reached No. 3 in France, included the song "Un Petit peu d'amour", evoking his long friendship with Johnny Hallyday. Three years later comes his 40th studio album, Amigos, at the same chart position as the previous one.

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