Rouge is a 1993 album recorded by the trio Carole Fredericks

Carole Fredericks

Carole Denise Fredericks was an American singer most famous for her recordings in France. Carole emerged from the shadow of her brother, the legendary blues musicologist Taj Mahal, to achieve fame and popularity in Europe and the French-speaking world...

, Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...

 and Michael Jones. It was its second studio album and was recorded at the studios Guillaume Tell, ICP and la Blaque, located in France and Belgium. The album was released on 29 November 1993 and spawned three singles which achieved some success in France : "Rouge" (#14), "Juste après" (#32) and "Fermer les yeux" (#33). The album was as successful as the singers' previous studio album.

Album information

The collector edition of Rouge has a box in aluminium, whose front cover is entirely carved, and some elements of which are painted red. The Alexandrov Ensemble participated in this recording, on the song "Rouge".

The album debuted at number one on 5 December 1993 and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks. It was ranked for 17 weeks in the top ten and for 42 weeks in the top 50. In 1995, it earned a Diamond disc

Music recording sales certification

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 for over 1,000,000 copies sold.

The album was briefly ranked at #41 in Switzerland.

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Goldman.

1. "Serre-moi" — 2:18
2. "On n'a pas changé" — 5:55
3. "Que disent les chansons du monde ?" — 4:54
4. "Il part" — 5:00
5. "Juste après" — 4:39
6. "Rouge" — 6:12
7. "Des vôtres" — 5:44
8. "Frères" — 5:12
9. "Des vies" — 4:19
10. "Ne lui dis pas" — 4:47
11. "Elle avait 17 ans" — 5:07
12. "Fermer les yeux" — 6:41

Personnel

• Tom Lord Aldge – mixing
• Erick Benzi
  Erick Benzi
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   – arranger, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , producer
• Alex Firla, Boris Beziat – assistant engineer
• Carole Fredericks – vocal
• Claude Gassian – photo
• Jean-Luc Seigneur – engraving
• Jean-Jacques Goldman – guitar, vocal, art direction, musical direction, lyrics
• Michael Jones – guitar, vocal, guitar arrangements
• Pino Palladino, Guy Delacroix – bass
• Andy Scott – producer, engineer
• Patrice Tison – guitar
• Chris Whitten – drums