Bernard Brumberg " Antoine "

Antoine (real name Pierre Antoine Muraccioli), born June 4, 1944 in Tamatave (Madagascar), is a singer-songwriter of French varieties. He is best known for his wild imaginings that make it famous in 1966.

He spent his adolescence between the Savoie, Haute-Savoie and Grenoble, where he attended high school classes by Champollion Math sup. (Higher mathematics). math and special. (Mathematics Special) It was here that he will buy his first flowered shirt, Boulevard Marechal Foch, and he will get the first autograph of Johnny Hallyday .

Centrale Paris engineering student (he received the degree in 1966), an unhappy love affair with the sister of a student of the Ecole Centrale led him to the song and he knows a critical success with his song Highway European Number 4, recorded in October 1965.

He goes on television for the first time the night of the presidential election in November 1965 and met a huge success in 1966 with the rantings of Anthony, yet launched against the advice of his producer Christian Fechner and the whole team Disk Vogue.

Maurice Chevalier said then: "Never has an artist reached the top as fast success," about to be taken up by the European version of Time magazine. It is then accompanied by "problems" that would later become the "Chariot."

The fantasies are propelled by his polemic, and especially by his allusions disparaging Johnny Hallyday , who more or less borrowed, replied with "Long hair and short ideas."

Juliette Greco quotes about it Boris Vian, also a graduate of Central.

Sales volumes have exploded, his career is taken over by its producer. It imposes control songs (I say what I think I saw as I want he gives, after the wild imaginings, Johnny Hallyday in cage Medrano, Vote for me, etc.). not taste of the individual. It catches up with Vote for me. It also refines texts much worked: War, Why the guns?, Sounds of roses.

The first album (with exceptional Metamorphoses, The Law of 1920, another highway ...), published in 1966, the third (with Mrs. Laura Messenger, Claude, Jeremiah and the existence of God), published in 1967, everything changes : it looks like his musical style. In 1973 he even an operetta revival of the inter-war years, Dede, and sings with Georgette Plana. In 1968, he became number one in Italy, Taxi, The Tramontana and Pietre.

In 1968 also, a song disillusioned, Bring me home, however, suggests that the show business does not bring him the freedom he has always sought, despite the resources that the same show-business provides.

About 1968 he also worked in Italy and has the opportunity to participate in the Festival di San Remo.

Then changes his style and is vaguely similar to that of Jacques Dutronc .

This blond tall, thin, lanky, thin mustache, the stars so distant post-Modugno at the time, immediately charm the audience with a song vaguely Alpine protest, Pietre.

Then he gets respectable success with Cannella, Taxi, The dirigibile, the north wind, in a style closer to the varieties and is often invited to the RAI.

His last hit Italian L'uomo oggetto, funny version of "Edge to edge in Bora-Bora."

Then, as he remains popular for the generation of the time, often called by the Italian television to talk about his adventures and travels around the world.

In October 1974 he set sail aboard Om, a steel schooner built in the 14 m site Meta Tarare (Rhone). He travels alone 17 000 miles of Port-Etienne in Rio, the island's Prince at St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha in Cayenne, until 1980.

Then from 1981 to 1989, he sailed the Atlantic and the Pacific aboard Travel, a sloop Strongall aluminum dinghy full of 10.05 m, also built at the site of Prometa Tarare.

Since 1989, he sailed on board Banana Split, an aluminum catamaran 12.50 m long, built by promising moved to Saint-Raphaël (Var).

In 1999 Antoine plays himself in an advertising saga became cult. These films "wink" that give colorful to see what the world more beautiful, were designed by Madeleine Danielsson.

Invited by radio and television to talk in France of its perpetual holidays during the summer months (when it passes in France), he was offered by Editions Arthaud first to write a book (the Globe-float) .

His photographs and films, he has plenty of time to fine tune (having no financial imperative as it is his own producer) also meet the success (and Islands ... Once upon a time '). He continues to write and sing a few songs (Hands off the sea ..). Finally, he settled accounts with show business in a piece of autobiography in 1965 called it a subtitled by provocation: a novel.