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JEANE MANSON, the most French of American singers

Jeane Manson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and then spent the first 12 years of her life in Mexico, where her father John Manson, writer and publicist, and her mother Chris Stevens, a jazz singer with group "Louis Prima" had settled.
Back in the United States as a teenager, Jeane is immediately passionate about the arts: music, dance and comedy. She learned music at the age of 8, choosing the guitar and piano as instruments, and at 13 she began acting lessons at MGM Studios in California. At university, she continues her musical studies (singing and composition) and enters the Actors Studio Lee Strasberg.
In her Hollywood debut, she toured "Young Nurses" under the direction of Roger Corman, then in "Dirty O'Neill" and "Terror Circus" before becoming Playmate of the Month in Playboy Magazine in August 1974, where she dared to pose.
That same August 1974, Jeane flew to Europe with only her guitar and a suitcase full of sheet music and plays. In love with European culture, she left California to look for new adventures as an artist and decided to settle in Paris.
The first films at the Cinema: Jeane very quickly adopted the French culture and in 1975 filmed in his first film "Good Hong Kong Baisers" with Mickey Rooney and in "The Acrobat" which won the prize for the best comedy of the year. Other feature films will follow, "The Midnight Justice" with Charles Bronson, "The Trace" with Richard Berry, "Diving Corps" directed by Raoul Peck and "The Piano Player" with Dennis Hopper and Christophe Lambert.
The Song: Parallel to the cinema, she continues composing music and singing. She made her first tour in 1974 with Sacha Distel. But it was in 1976 that her career took a turn when she met composer Jean Renard with whom she recorded her first great success "Before saying goodbye", which sold more than 2 million copies in a few weeks. Thanks to this success, she is singing all over the world (Europe, Latin America, Middle East and China).
In 1976, the song became his main artistic activity. Jeane records more than 600 songs and 26 albums, mostly at Sony Music. She will receive 7 gold records, and 1 platinum disc, selling more than 30 million records in a 40-year career. In 1979 she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Grand Prix held in Israel.
On television, she appears alongside many international artists: Julio Iglesias, Kenny Loggins, Michael Jackson, Earth Wind and Fire, Sting, Joan Baez and many French and European artists. She will also be one of the muses of the famous Carpentiers programs alongside Jo Dassin, Dave, Carlos, Joëlle ...
And until the 90s, his tours around the world held him on the road with more than 5,000 concerts.
Singer with 3 octaves voice, combining in several languages ??(French, English, Spanish ...) all the musical styles of the Pop to the Classical, Jeane recorded among her numerous discs, an album of popular songs Mexican with the formation "El Mariachi Mezcal "in 1992 in memory of years spent in Mexico. And then a Country album in Nashville in 1995 (in French and American version), in collaboration with Disney France.

In 1998 and 1999: She also had the privilege of recording in Moscow two CD albums with the Alexandrov Choirs of the Red Army (a Christmas album in 1998 and a classic album in 1999). These 2 albums will give rise to 2 great tours in more than 200 churches in France and Switzerland. A DVD of Christmas carols will be recorded in the Basilica of Fourvière in Lyon.
Jeane records "Yobel" a song specially written for World Youth Day, which she has the honor to sing before Pope John Paul II when he celebrates mass in front of more than 200,000 people in Paris in June 1997 A single collector is published for these WYD.
Always curious and passionate and looking for different musicalities, Jeane recorded in 2004 the album "Love Caché", a more color album R & B.
Artist and Citizen: In 1987, she was awarded the National Order of Merit for her song "Hymn to Life" composed by Francis Lai, a song that deals with environmental issues. She is also promoted to Chevalier des Arts et Lettres for her entire career. She will also join in March 2016, the National Association of Members of the National Order of French Merit in Spain.
In May 2007, she will sing the evening of the election of the President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, on the Place de la Concorde in Paris in front of more than 50,000 people.
Sensitive and attentive to the problems and the evolution of our society, Jeane has a very strong associative commitment for years. Fervent follower of the animal cause and its well being, she will fight on many occasions to advance "the vegetarian attitude". She will also participate actively in the complete restoration of the church of her village in Normandy, the Saint Martin church, by creating an association "Chambray Heritage", of which she is still President of Honor.
Theater: Theater has also played a big role in Jeane's life. In the 80s, she was seen in Edouard Bourdet's comedy "Le Sexe Faible", in "La Président" written by Jean Poiret and in the musical "L'Homme de la Mancha" in the famous role of Dulcinea alongside Jean Piat. In the 90s, she is the interpreter of "Dédé" operetta created by Maurice Chevalier and "Les 3 Valses" by Oscar Strauss at the Opéra de Marseille.
In 2004, she played in Paris and toured in "A Perfect Man" with Guy Montagné. In 2007 she created at the Nice Opera "Sans Famille" a musical show by Jean-Claude Petit based on the work of Hector Malot.
TV Series: She has also been seen on TV in several series or TV movies such as "The Clan", "Walkie Talkie" and "Riviera", the first French soap opera in a 250-episode series. And a little later in the series "Under the Sun".
Gospel: In 2000, Jeane meets in Rouen the musician and conductor Jean Paul Goury and turns to the Chant Gospel. She recorded her first Gospel album, in 2001, with the "Broadway's Gospel Group" which will accompany her on the roads of France for some 500 concerts in churches and cathedrals until 2008.
This spiritual and artistic choice is also accompanied by the writing of a book "Prayers of Love" to express his faith in God and in Humanity.
Then in 2011, his artistic and musical encounter with the Quartet "The Ameni Gospel Singers" led him to create and present, accompanied by his pianist, Frederic Andrews, his new Gospel show "On The Gospel Route", and today with the group "Gospel Group For All".
2006 - 30 years of Songs: To celebrate this event, she will choose the legendary hall of the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, presenting a great musical and equestrian show "An American in Paris". 65 musicians, dancers, choristers, acrobats, riders and horses on stage. A DVD of the show has been produced, on sale on this site.
Passionate about Equestrian Arts since her childhood, virtuously combining high school and singing, she performs with her Lusitanian and Spanish horses and participates in many equestrian Festivals in France.
Godmother of "The Salt Road", Jeane joins Jean Yves Bonnet every year to take part in this historic route.
She will be invited in 1997 by the famous "Cadre Noir de Saumur" for 4 unreleased shows.
2011: She joined the tour "Tender Age and Head of Wood Season 7" accompanied by 60 musicians in all Zénith de France.
In Israel with her daughter Shirel, she creates "Double Je", a musical show Mother - Daughter.
Publication of her biography in 2011, "An American in Paris" and a "collector's box 3CD 60 titles" at Sony with many unpublished Jazz titles ever released on CD, and a superb cover of the title sung by Johnny Halliday "Oh Mary."
October 2013 - Tired of not being supported by Majors (Record Companies), she decided to create her own label in Spain: "Guadalupe Produccion Int".
A musical encounter with two Gypsy guitarists, Claudio Pot and Francisco Gil led him to compose and record at Studios Music lan, near Figueras, "the album Franco-Spanish - Viviré".
The 2 albums (French and Spanish) are out in March 2014 in the bins and are on sale on the site, in physical version or download.
It includes great classic standards revisited as "Gracias a la Vida, Angelitos Negros, Aranjuez mi Amor" ..., beautiful new titles such as "Orchata, the Forest of Eucalyptus" whose adaptation is signed by his daughter Shirel, and a very nice recovery in Spanish Indian summer Joe Dassin, "Indio".

A summer tour "Sun Tour Var Matin" in July - August 2014, about forty dates in France is scheduled to present the public this new album which meets a huge success.
2014 - Inspired by the meeting of her parents in 1944 in the city of Le Havre in France, his father aviator in the US Air Force and his mother Singer in the group of Louis Prima, Jeane creates "Liberty 44", an event concert in France. tribute to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of France, with its Big Band Orchestra, in period military costume with the French and American musical hits of the 1940s.
In parallel with her concerts in France and Europe, Jeane continues to tour internationally with an exceptional show alongside Claude Barzotti at Edhen in Lebanon for the "International Edheniyat Festival" in August 2015, in front of more than 4000 people.
After 2 exceptional concerts in Beirut, in July 2016, during the "Beirut International Award Festival", alongside many artistic, scientific, philosophical and moral personalities from around the world, Jeane will be awarded an international prize to crown 40 years of Songs .
1976 - 2016: The year of 40 years of Songs with the creation and release of a new album "Love The One Heart Sun".
An eclectic album where the artist presents 4 Golds Great Successes re orchestrated with his 2 guitarists whose title became cult "Before We Say Goodbye", 1 title Inspired Lounge "Ibiza", unpublished and composed with Claude Barzotti , and other duets with Shirel his daughter, Jean Jacques Lafon and Matthieu Sempéré. A pleasure album where the artist expresses all his talent and his love of words and music.

A single 2 titles "Collector" has been published, in physical version and download, available exclusively on this site.
Today, despite the fear that has spread in France since the terrible bombings of Bataclan and the assassination of the priest of the church of Saint Etienne du Rouvray, Jeane Manson continues his quest for singing Gospel, accompanied by the Quartet "The Gospel Group For All "and his pianist.
In the aftermath of the Bataclan bombings in Paris, it will occur the next day at Cross in the North in a church arch-fills, to preach Love, Hope and Tolerance.
A new album "Gospel" incorporating 4 unreleased tracks, in tribute to Jean Paul Goury was published in December 2016 and available on this site.
Mother filled with 2 girls, Shirel artist and singer and Marianne producer of newspapers on the chain I24 in Israel, daughter of Allain Bougrain Dubourg defender of the animal cause.
His mother, Chris Stevens, a well-known painter and jazz singer, lives on the Hudson River in northern New York. She continues to perform on stage with her group, the "Hottsi Totsi's" at over 90 years old.

Her dad, John Manson, whom she has always considered as the man of her life and who has long accompanied her in her career, left her in October 2007.
In 2012, Jeane opened a shop of objects of the world, decoration, antiques, vintage ..., costumes and stage props, outfits "El Raco de Guadalupe" in Peralada a few kilometers from Figueras in Catalonia.
A virtual e-boutique "Private Collection Jeane Manson" is under construction on the site and presents under the title "Fringues of Stars", outfits and accessories of scene and city of the artist.
Today she shares her life between the United States, Spain and Israel.

Always as creative, passionate and close to new technologies and new forms of communication, and facing the excesses of the Internet in culture, Jeane creates in 2016 its own channel "You Tube Jeane Manson Official" and this new site web where you can buy albums in physical version and download.
2 networks that are currently under development.

Source of the biography: http://www.jeanemanson.com/en/biografia.html