Emilie Simon Bio - Biography

Name Emilie Simon
Height
Naionality Franch
Date of Birth 17-July-1978
Place of Birth Montpellier, France
Famous for Singing
Emilie Simon is a French singer, songwriter and composer of electronic music. In May 2003, she released her debut album Emilie 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 Emilie Simon for the songs "DEsert" and "Flowers". The English version of "DEsert" had an identical music video to the French version. Emilie Simon was also re-released 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 mid-price album charts in late January 2007. More recently, Emilie Simon has begun performing and releasing CDs in the United States. Her first U.S. 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 Emilie released her second recording in the United States, The March of the Empress, and a third, The Big Machine, in 2011. Her first concert was given at l'Ubu in Rennes, France, where she played before electro singer Avril. During her stage performances, she performs alongside IRCAM's Cyrille Brissot who directs the program and Medhi Parisot on the guitar.

On 1 July 2005, at the EurockEennes of Belfort, she gave a live concert with the participation of Synfonietta de Belfort and the Lyon percussion group. She worked with both of these ensembles again in a second concert, 19 January 2006 at Le Grand Rex in Paris. She then toured with Placebo, doing the first part of their tour from 29 September 2006 until the 4 December 2006. She has also done numerous concerts abroad, in Germany, Australia and the U.S. In September 2010 Emilie travelled to China for a short China tour with local promoters Split Works, stopping at the Dragon Valley Festival and in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

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