Florent Pagny

Florent Pagny born 6 November 1961 is a French singersongwriter musician and actor He records his work in French as well as in Italian Spanish and English His greatest hits include Nimporte quoi Savoir aimer and Ma Liberté de penserall three were number one in France As of 2018 he has sold more than 6 million singles and 10 million albums becoming the 17th bestselling artist of all time in France Florent Pagny began his artistic career as an actor in popular films and television dramas He appeared in La Balance LAs des as and A Captains Honor or Fort Saganne In 1987 he wrote his first song titled Nimporte quoi Pagnys first album Merci was released in 1990 The albums songs mainly written by himself began to attract controversy with the press eventually boycotting some of them This led to a decline in sales culminating in personal problems His followup album Réaliste was also not as successful JeanJacques Goldman wrote three songs for Pagny under the pseudonym Sam Brewski and presented to him a new staff The album Rester vrai marked the beginning of his career as a performer only Bienvenue chez moi a semicompilation released in 1995 was a smash success Pagny also covered Caruso the hit originally performed by Lucio Dalla He decided to move to Argentinian Patagonia to flee the French tax authorities and to start a new life with his wife Azucena and their children Recently Pagny said he had enrolled his children in Miami because he didnt want them to speak Arabic while returning from school His next album Savoir aimer was released in 1997 It was composed by a number of writers including JeanJacques Goldman Erick Benzi Jacques Veneruso Zazie and Pascal Obispo who also produced the album Savoir aimer turned out to be an immediate success In 1999 Pagny released an album of cover versions of his old song Recréation From Môme Julie to Antisocial he mixed musical styles and dabbled with techno arrangements Pagny then alternated studios and cover albums at least in part and regularly changed his look In 2000 he released the album Châtelet Les Halles whose title song was produced by Calogero He followed that with 2 an album composed of duets released in 2001 In 2003 he returned with Ailleurs land whose first single Ma Liberté de penser was composed by Pascal Obispo and Lionel Florence and deals with Pagnys problems with the French treasury Finally in 2004 Pagny released Baryton an album composed of opera songs In 2007 Pagny released an album of covers of songs originally composed and performed by Jacques Brel entitled Pagny chante Brel Source Article Florent Pagny from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30