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Gildas Arzel

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Gildas Arzel
Born (1961-01-21) 21 January 1961 (age 63)
Alsace, France
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter
InstrumentMulti-instrumentalist
Formerly of
  • Die Form
  • Canada
  • El Club

Gildas Arzel (born 21 January 1961) is a French singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Alsace. In addition to his solo career, he has been in musical formations such as the duo Die Form, with Erick Benzi; the group Canada (with Benzi, Jacques Veneruso, and Gwenn Arzel); and since 2007, El Club, with Benzi, Michael Jones, and Christian Seguret (fr).[1]

Arzel began his solo career playing a mix of Irish and Scottish folk, blues, rock, Cajun, Celtic, and ethnic music. He has written a number of songs for and collaborated with Celine Dion, Johnny Hallyday, Roch Voisine, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks, Michael Jones, Maurane, Nanette Workman, Florent Pagny, Yannick Noah, France D'Amour, J.A.H.O., and others.

Discography

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Solo

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  • Les gens du voyage (1991)
  • Entrer dans la danse (1994)
  • Gildas Arzel (1997)
  • Autour de nous (2001)
  • Greneville (2015)

Other work

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with Canada (Gildas Arzel, Gween Arzel, Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso)

  • Sur les traces (1988)

with Gabriel Yacoub

  • Quatre (1994)

with Céline Dion (Gildas Arzel, Erick Benzi, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jacques Veneruso)

with El Club (Gildas Arzel, Erick Benzi, Michael Jones, Christian Seguret)

  • Plus fort que ça (2007)

References

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