Musician grant
Selection criteria
Must be 30 years of age or younger, have the backing of an independent label, and present a CD that has already been recorded plus a music-creation project.
2009
Alexandra Grimal had every reason to take piano lessons, what with music-loving parents, a violinist brother and a piano taking pride of place in the living room...
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2009
Pauline is smiling. She’s not used to talking about herself. She’s 26 years old, and her stage name, Mina Tindle, has a transatlantic ring to it – but she’s Parisian by birth, with Spanish roots... SPECIAL AWARD
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2008
Sarah Lavaud discovered music at a very young age. At home, in a corner of a room stood an upright piano. Her family enjoyed music but did not play any instruments. Her parents were simply music lovers.
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2008
Like many youngsters, Benjamin Ledauphin, Cédric Moutier, Yoann Buffeteau and Mathieu Languille played music in their parents' cellar or garage.
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2007
When she lost the cheque for piano lessons as a child, the young Mélissa Laveaux set the course of her destiny. She would learn to teach herself music by ear and through books...
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2006
Fanny Chériaux started singing as soon as she could make a sound. When she was seven, her mother signed her up at the Lamballe School of Music, where the child began her gentle initiation into classical music and the piano. It was only...
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2005
Born in Noisy-le-Sec, where he grew up and still lives, Ahmed Mazouz was already crazy about music at the tender age of eight, watching music videos and the Top 50 non-stop on TV. At that time, he was influenced as much by New Wave as...
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2004
After spells in Mauritius (where he was born), Mauritania, France and Burundi, in 1995 Jean-Paul Hourton finally settled in Chile, his mother’s country of birth. It was here that...
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2003
Jean-Baptiste Robin remembers his seventh birthday well: his father gave him a record to listen to, and he immediately fell in love with the extraordinary tones of the music that flowed out...
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