Artist: Yannick Noah
Genre(s):
Chanson
Other
Discography:
Charango
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Pokhara
Year:
Tracks: 13
Metisse(s)
Year:
Tracks: 11
While much of the globe remembers Yannick Noah as the dreadlocked lawn tennis fighter world Health Organization claimed the 1983 French Open deed, in his native France he is too a major pop music star. The boy of notable football player Zacharie Noah, he was born in Sedan, France, on May 18, 1960, simply washed-out a good deal of his childhood in his father's native Cameroon. Despite his philia for Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley, Noah chose to prosecute sports over music, proving specially gifted as a tennis player. In time he captured the attention of American lawn tennis legend Arthur Ashe, wHO in 1971 installed him in Nice's French Tennis Federation evolution programme. Upon turning professional in 1977, it took Noah hardly a year to call his first base singles claim in Manila. A flamboyant musician celebrated for his vitriolic forehand shot, he achieved immortality in 1983 when he defeated reigning champion Mats Wilander to become the first Frenchman in 37 long time to acquire the French Open (and, as of this committal to writing, he remains the concluding Frenchman to claim the honor as well). In a career spanning fill up to deuce decades, Noah captured 23 sum singles titles and 16 doubles honors, and in 1986 was the world's third-ranked men's room singles player. An 11-year penis of the French Davis Cup squad, in 1991 Noah captained the national team to its first gear championship in 59 years, disconcerting a heavily preferent U.S. batting order thirty-one; he repeated the feat five age by and by, and in 1997 as well light-emitting diode France's Fed Cup squad to its first-ever top refinement. In 2005, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
With his lawn tennis life history waning, Noah began his transcription life history in 1990 with the single "Saga Africa." Thanks in big office to his record label's negotiations with secret idiot box network TF1, the sequent video became a broadcasting raw material and vaulted the disc to the top of the French charts. Its success fleetly conventional Noah as France's first-class honours degree old athlete to love real commercial success as a protrude singer, and determine the stage for the 1991 release of his number one LP, Black et What, which featured lyrics in French, English, and Cameroonian alongside guest contributions from Manu Dibango and Idrissa Diop. Despite some other massive promotional campaign, Noah's 1993 followup, Urban Tribu, proven a commercial-grade disaster, and in the geezerhood to survey he sour his focus endorse to music, concurrently writing a 1997 memoir Secrets Etc... Later that same year he too resumed his recording pursuits with "Oh Rêve," a controversial pacifist reworking of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise." Only in 2000 did Noah finally issue his third base LP, a self-titled effort informed by the music and culture of his African heritage. Dubbed "Afro-reggae" by the singer himself, his young sound revitalized his chart stature, and the single "Les Lionnes" rocketed to number unitary. Pokhara murder retail in 2003, and sold in excessiveness of a million copies. Its half-live/half-studio followup, Métisse(s), highlighted by a duet with reggae icon Jimmy Cliff, trailed deuce years later.
