Scene de Vie

Auch nach neun Jahren hat 'Scène de vie' nichts von ihrem Charme verloren und gehört mit Lieder wie 'Les mannequins d'osier' und 'Bessie' zweifellos zu Patricia Kaas' gelungensten CDs. Insgesamt bietet die CD eine große Spannbreite, die sowohl Richtungen des Jazz, des Blues und verschiedener Strömungen der Popmusik aufgreift und dadurch zu einer Innovation des französischen Chansons beigetragen hat. Die unverwechselbare Stimme von Patricia Kaas vermag sich ebenso souverän wie einfühlsam in die verschiedenen Musikgenres und Stimmungen hineinzuversetzen und ihnen höchste Ausdruckskraft zu verleihen. Nach ihrem so erfolgreichen Debut mit 'Mademoiselle chante ...' bildet 'Scene de vie' eine konsequente Fortsetzung, die ihre Vorgänger-CD im Hinblick auf Produktionstechnik und Perfektion der Instrumentierung noch übertrifft. (Dies ist eine Amazon.de an der Uni-Studentenrezension.)

PATRICIA KAAS' music reminds me on one of the best times in my life! When I studied engineering and management at a Technical University in Germany in the 1980ies I had the luck to study 1 - 2 years at a university in France. I enjoyed life in France, especially in Paris, to the fullest.

I fell in love to beautiful French ladies, bought a French car (Peugeot Cabrio), listened to French music, travelled all over France. And I bought lots of French LPs and CDs. - One of my favorite French musicians was - and still is - PATRICIA KAAS!

After my studies in Germany and in France I moved from job to job as a manager, I worked and lived in many countries all over Europe, in North and South America, Far East, Australia - and now 25 years later in 2009 I landed in the most beautiful area in the Arabian Gulf region. However I still like to listen to the French singers. When I drive all over the Gulf region (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Emirates Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Oman) I like to listen to the French singers, and of my French favorites still is PATRICIA KAAS.

.... a portrait of this phantastic female artist PATRICIA KAAS

Chanteuse PATRICIA KAAS was born in France's Lorraine region, where she began performing as a youth; by age 11, she even held a residency at the Rumpelkammer Club in Sarrebrucken, Germany, over time honing a distinct style updating the French chanson tradition with elements of pop, blues and jazz. Scoring her first national hit in 1987 with "Mademoiselle Chante le Blues", Kaas was named Female Newcomer of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique, and her debut album "Mademoiselle Chante" earned platinum status in France, Belgium and Switzerland; the follow-up, "Scene de Vie", topped the French charts for three months. She then spent the better part of the early '90s touring the globe, becoming the first Western-born female performer to play in Hanoi since the end of the conflict in Vietnam; "Je te dis vous" followed in 1993, and the following year Kaas issued her first live effort, "Tour de charme". Upon completing 1997's Phil Ramone-produced "Dans Ma Chair", Kaas headlined a series of dates at Paris' Olympia Theatre which yielded the live Rendez-vous; her debut for Sony Classical, Christmas in Vienna, appeared in 1999.

Kaas first made her mark on the French musical world with the song "Mademoiselle chante le Blues". In 1988 she received the "Female Newcomer of the Year" award at the "Victoires de la Musique", the first of many awards that have marked her career in Europe. With numerous and successful albums she has since established herself as a star and innovator of the French cabaret and as one of the world's most popular performers in the great tradition of the French chanson, spiced in her case with pop, blues and jazz.

After all her success in the recording studio, Kaas still feels most at home on the concert stage, where her innate vocal and interpretive gifts create the authentically intimate performer/audience bond that defines her style: "What I like most is to perform on stage," she says, "to get in contact with the audience." In 1991 she began a spectacular world tour (210 concerts in 13 countries). In 1992 she performed eight sold-out concerts in America and embarked on a 150-venue tour through 19 countries, including the United States, Russia, Lebanon, Cambodia, Finland, South Korea, Japan, Germany, England and Vietnam, where she was the first female star from the West to have performed in Hanoi since the end of the Vietnam War.

Born in the Lorraine region of France, Kaas pursued singing from a very early age and during her teenage years held a singing residency at the Rumpelkammer Club in Sarrebrucken, Germany. Throughout her career she has explored music in many styles from many eras. "I like different styles", she admits. "Rather than going on the broad avenues, I like to go and see what's happening in the side streets." Her next project will be an album sung entirely in English, a new development for her and one which will bring her artistry to a new audiences across the world. (information on: www.artistdirect.com)

Dieses (zweite) Album von Patricia Kaas überzeugt auf zweierlei Art: zum einen ist es in sich homogen. Dies wird u.a. durch den ganzen Aufbau betont, es gibt einen Vor- u. Abspann (Générique); aber auch sonst fügen sich die Titel harmonisch aneinander, und vor allem die Hörer, die (wie ich) der Meinung sind, daß P.K. in erster Linie hervorragend Blues und Jazz singen kann, kommen hier voll auf ihre Kosten.Ähnlich homogene Leistungen vollbringt P.K. sonst nur noch auf den Alben "Dans ma chair" und "Le mot de passe".