La Bohème (Charles Aznavour song)
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La Bohème is a song written by Jacques Plante and Armenian
-French
artist Charles Aznavour
. The original version of this song was written by Gipo Farassino a Piemont singer who wrote the song "Porta Pila." It was first recorded by Aznavour in 1966. It is Aznavour's signature song
, as well as one of the most popular French
-language songs and a staple of French chanson
. He also recorded Italian
, Spanish
, English
, and German
versions, as well as a rare Portuguese
recording. It is performed at virtually every one of his concerts.
It was later done in English by Dubstar
, who included their version as a filler track for the release of their single "No More Talk".
In 2005, Mafalda Arnauth
, a Portuguese fado
singer recorded a version of this song for her fourth album Diário
.
A re-interpretation was also done by electronic musician Nicolas Jaar
, who used it in numerous of his famous live sets.
Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
-French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
artist Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
. The original version of this song was written by Gipo Farassino a Piemont singer who wrote the song "Porta Pila." It was first recorded by Aznavour in 1966. It is Aznavour's signature song
Signature song
A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singer or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of songs...
, as well as one of the most popular French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
-language songs and a staple of French chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
. He also recorded Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
versions, as well as a rare Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
recording. It is performed at virtually every one of his concerts.
It was later done in English by Dubstar
Dubstar
Dubstar are an English band, performing mostly dream pop and indie dance music, as well as occasional pop ballads and, on later releases, guitar-heavy rock with an industrial influence. The group was formed in 1992 by Steve Hillier and Chris Wilkie in Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
, who included their version as a filler track for the release of their single "No More Talk".
In 2005, Mafalda Arnauth
Mafalda Arnauth
Mafalda Arnauth is a fado singer. She was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 1974 and started her career in 1995 when invited by João Braga to participate in a concert at S. Luis's Theater....
, a Portuguese fado
Fado
Fado is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar, Rui Vieira Nery, states that "the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best...
singer recorded a version of this song for her fourth album Diário
Diário (Mafalda Arnauth album)
Diário is the fourth album by Portuguese fado singer Mafalda Arnauth, released in 2005 on Universal Music Portugal.-Track listing:# PARA MARIA# AUDÁCIA# FOI DEUS# O QUE TINHA DE SER# DA COR DA NOITE# O NÓ QUE NOS ATA# MILONGA DO CHIADO...
.
A re-interpretation was also done by electronic musician Nicolas Jaar
Nicolas Jaar
Nicolas Jaar is an American-Chilean musician. He is currently studying comparative literature at Brown University, Rhode Island.-Biography:Jaar was born in New York on January 10, 1990 as the son of Alfredo Jaar and Evelyne Meynard, but moved to Chile at the age of two...
, who used it in numerous of his famous live sets.