You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,147 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Laurent Voulzy]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Laurent Voulzy}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Laurent Voulzy
Background information
Birth name	Lucien Voulzy
Born	(1948-12-18) 18 December 1948 (age 75) Paris, France
Genres	Alternative rock, French pop, pop rock, experimental, chanson, soft rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Guitar
Years active	1969–present
Website	laurentvoulzy.com <FR>

Lucien Voulzy (French pronunciation: [lysjɛ̃ vulzi], born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy ( [loʁɑ̃ vulzi]), is a French singer-songwriter, composer and musician.

Life and career

Voulzy was born in Paris, France. He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus before joining Pascal Danel as guitarist from 1969 to 1974. However, he is best known for his collaborative songwriting efforts with singer-songwriter Alain Souchon and his solo singing career, which spanned several successful singles and albums.

Voulzy had an international hit with the song " Rockollection". ^[1] The French lyrics were interspersed with some lines from classic rock hits after the chorus.
His major hits also include the singles " Paradoxal Système" (which reached the French Top 10), "Le Soleil Donne" ^[2] – sung in French, English and Spanish – ^[3] and the double "Belle-Île-en-Mer, Marie-Galante"/" Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde" ^[4] ("Nights without Kim Wilde"; a song ^[5] inspired ^[6] by the chart-topping English singer). ^[7] Other songs entered the French charts ("Bopper en larmes", "Le coeur Grenadine", "Désir, désir", etc.). ^[8]
Voulzy also enjoys success in Belgium, Switzerland and Québec; and although being a French artist, his songs often contain multiple languages (including lyrics in English, ^[9] Spanish, ^[10] Portuguese, ^[11] German, etc.).

In 2005, he co-produced and co-composed Nolwenn Leroy's second album Histoires Naturelles.

Voulzy had a huge hit with his album La Septième Vague which reached number one in 2006. Featured on the album is a cover of the Everly Brothers hit " All I Have to Do Is Dream", recorded as a duet with Irish singer Andrea Corr. The song was released as a single and was also included on The Corrs' greatest hits album Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection.

He recorded in 2007 a duet with the French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel on his hit album Guitar Connection 2. The song hit the French charts at No. 7 in 2008. For his 2011 album, Lys and Love, Voulzy recorded a duet on the song "Ma seule amour" with English singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. ^[12] In 2007, He toured France.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

Singles

• 1977: " Rockollection"
• 1978: "Bubble Star"
• 1979: "Le Cœur grenadine"
• 1979: "Karin Redinger"
• 1979: "Cocktail chez Mademoiselle"
• 1980: "Surfing Jack"
• 1981: "Idéal simplifié"
• 1983: "Bopper en larmes"
• 1983: "Liebe"

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Laurent Voulzy.

• (in French) Laurent Voulzy (official site)
• Biography of Laurent Voulzy, from Radio France Internationale