Benjamin Biolay

Benjamin Biolay born 20 January 1973 is a French singer musician songwriter record producer and actor He is the brother of singer Coralie Clémentwhose first three albums he wrote and producedand the exhusband of Chiara Mastroianni the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni His lowkey vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho With the singer Keren Ann whose first two albums he cowrote and produced he contributed several songs to Chambre avec Vue the successful comeback album of singer Henri Salvador and has since worked as a writer arranger or producer for other icons of French music including Juliette Gréco Julien Clerc Françoise Hardy Vanessa Paradis and Nolwenn Leroy He wrote or performed most of the songs on the 2004 soundtrack to Clara et Moi by Arnaud Viard and released the album Home with his wife the same year After two more rock oriented albums in 2005 and 2007 he was dropped by his record company and began working on his first independent release La Superbe released on Naïve records in 2009 This was followed by the soundtrack album Pourquoi tu pleures in 2011 and Vengeance in 2012 Benjamin was married to actress and singer Chiara Mastroianni from 2002 to 2005 they have a daughter Anna born 22 April 2003 Source Article Benjamin Biolay from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30