Émilie Simon

Émilie Simon born 1978 in Montpellier Occitanie France is a French singer songwriter and composer of electronic music In May 2003 she released her debut album Émilie Simon The electronic album was critically acclaimed and went on to become a commercial success To promote her album she did numerous live performances and TV appearances all over France In 2004 she was rewarded with a Victoire de la musique in the Electronic Album category for the album Two music videos were made to promote Émilie Simon for the songs Désert and Flowers The English version of Désert had an identical music video to the French version Émilie Simon was also rereleased in certain parts of the world with additional tracks Despite having been released for over three years the album was still charting in the French midprice album charts in late January 2007 More recently Émilie Simon has begun performing and releasing CDs in the United States Her first US release The Flower Book came out November 2006 The release was followed by a brief tour to New York and Los Angeles In April 2007 Émilie released her second recording in the United States The March of the Empress and a third The Big Machine in 2011 Wishing to orient her second album towards a more wintry or polar setting she proceeded to record sounds which relate to coldness such as the sounds of smashing ice and footsteps in the snow Coincidentally in the midst of her search for sounds for the album she was contacted by producer Luc Jacquet to compose the original soundtrack for his documentary film La Marche de lempereur March of the Penguins in English concerning the annual migration of emperor penguins The film came out in France at the beginning of 2005 featuring a soundtrack by Emilie Simon that was also released by Universal Music as her second album In 2006 she won the Victoire de la Musique in the Film Soundtrack category and was nominated for a César Award for the best film music composition The version of March of the Penguins that was released in the United States and in English Canada used a more traditional documentary soundtrack scored by Alex Wurman as the local producers feared that the Émilie Simon soundtrack would be too challenging for North American viewers the only cinemas in North America to screen the film with the Émilie Simon soundtrack were those of the French circuit in the province of Quebec The Canadian DVD version of the film offers both the French version with Émilie Simons soundtrack and the American version with that of Alex Wurman In 2006 Émilie Simon released her third album Végétal in which she uses the sounds of plants as hinted by the name The lyrics play with words always relating to flora The album also contains more elements of rock music This comes forward in some of the more lively tracks such as Fleur de Saison where she plays an electric guitar The sound remains nonetheless that of electronic music while her voice maintains its candor softness and beauty Source Article Émilie Simon from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30