# Alain Chamfort > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alain_Chamfort > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alain_Chamfort.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Chamfort > Source revision: 1291653517 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) French singer This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Alain Chamfort" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Alain Chamfort Chamfort in 2010 Background information Born Alain Joseph Yves Le Govic (1949-03-02) 2 March 1949 (age 77) Paris, France Occupations Singer composer actor Years active 1966–present Website alain-chamfort.com Musical artist **Alain Chamfort** (French pronunciation: [\[alɛ̃ ʃɑ̃fɔʁ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French); born **Alain Joseph Yves Le Govic**; 2 March 1949) is a French singer of [Breton](/source/Brittany) origin. ## Life and career Chamfort was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice. His first band The Dreamers had minor success as a repertory [jazz](/source/Jazz) outfit, and was followed by a typically sixties rock music group Murator. Chamfort met famed writer and producer [Jacques Dutronc](/source/Jacques_Dutronc), who proposed to help him with future works for television and film, and it is with Dutronc that Chamfort's career expanded. After being discovered by Dutronc, it was with [Claude François](/source/Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois) and ultimately [Serge Gainsbourg](/source/Serge_Gainsbourg) that he made a number of albums, including his first album recorded as Alain Chamfort: *[Poses](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poses_(Alain_Chamfort_album)&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poses_(album_d%27Alain_Chamfort))]*. A single from the album, "[Manureva](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manureva_(song)&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manureva_(chanson))]" remains one of the most famous songs to date by Chamfort, whose subject is the yacht *[Manureva](/source/Manureva)* which disappeared with her skipper [Alain Colas](/source/Alain_Colas) in 1978. Chamfort composed for the cinema; he worked with [Jean-Pierre Mocky](/source/Jean-Pierre_Mocky) and with [Arnaud Sélignac](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arnaud_S%C3%A9lignac&action=edit&redlink=1). As an actor, he appeared in the short *Men/Toys/Girl* in 2001.[1] In 2004, he became a member of the board of directors of [SACEM](/source/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_auteurs%2C_compositeurs_et_%C3%A9diteurs_de_musique). ## Discography Chamfort performing in 2006 ### Studio albums - *Je Pense A Elle, Elle Pense A Moi* (1973, Flèche) - *Un coin de vie, Madonna Madonna* (1974, Flèche) - **Mariage A L'Essai** (1976, CBS) - *Rock'n Rose* (1977, CBS) - *Poses* (1979, CBS) - *Amour, Année Zéro* (1981, CBS) - *Secrets Glacés* (1983, CBS) - *Tendres Fièvres* (1986, CBS) - *Trouble* (1990, CBS) - *Neuf* (1993, Epic) - *Personne N'Est Parfait* (1997, Epic) - *Le Plaisir* (2003, Delabel) - *Une vie Saint Laurent* (2010, Tessland) - *[Elles & Lui](/source/Elles_%26_Lui)* (2012, Mercury) - *Alain Chamfort* (2015, PIAS) - *Le désordre des choses* (2018, PIAS) - *L'impermanence* (2024, Tessland via BMG France) ### Live albums - *Double Vie* (1988, CBS) - *Impromptu Dans Les Jardins Du Luxembourg* (2005, XIII Bis) ### Compilations - *Ce N'est Que Moi* (2000, Epic) 1977–2000 - *Le Chemin Est Le Bonheur 1976–2006* (2006, XIII Bis) 1976–2005 - *Le meilleur d'Alain Chamfort (versions revisitées)* (2016, Pias) ## Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1993 Une femme pour moi Guillaume Telefilm 2001 Men/Toys/Girl The player Short 2008 Écrire pour un chanteur A man TV series 2013 Games of Clouds & Rain Simon 2015 Les Châteaux de sable Éléonore's father ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Men/Toys/Girl"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9imuylOYg). [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/GG9imuylOYg) from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2012 – via YouTube. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Alain Chamfort](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alain_Chamfort). - [Alain Chamfort](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150520/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [Biography](https://web.archive.org/web/20041102143450/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6109.asp) - [Official website, at sonymusic.fr](https://web.archive.org/web/20041116033340/http://www.sonymusic.fr/chamfort/) (in French) - [Fan website](http://www.alain-chamfort.net/) (in French) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND National United States France BnF data Italy Spain Artists MusicBrainz Other IdRef This article about a French singer is a stub. 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