Yannick Noah : "Charango" (2006, New Age, FULL CD)
WE TAKE A BREAK FROM OUR COUNTDOWN TO BRING YOU SOME BANGING NEW RELEASES!
1. Donne-moi une vie 3:46
2. Danser 3:01
3. Aux arbres citoyens 3:18
4. Je suis tombé 2:41
5. Couleurs d'aimer 3:12
6. Assez bon pour moi 3:29
7. C'est toi 4:24
8. J'y crois encore 2:42
9. Destination ailleurs 2:52
10. La vie nous donne 3:14
11. Un jour (le combat) 3:41
12. Là 3:51
13. Te quiero 3:25
14. Dans et sur mes bras 2:5
Yannick Noah (May 18, 1960, Sedan, Ardennes, France) is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the founder of a charity organization for underprivileged children. In a song titled "Métis(se)" Noah refers to being a métis, which in French-speaking Africa (or generally France as well), is used to describe someone who is of both white European and black African ancestry (though Noah had made a point of his mixed ethnicity long before the song's production). He is of Cameroonian and French descent.
Since retiring from playing tennis, Noah has developed a career as a popular singer, performing throughout Europe. He began his music career in 1991 with the album Black or What, featuring the popular track "Saga Africa".
Noah made music news in the summer of 1997 with a new single entitled "Oh Rêve". His audacious adaptation of "La Marseillaise" – originally written by Rouget de Lisle in 1792 and adopted as the French national anthem – succeeded in ruffling a few feathers. The pacifist reworking of the strongly patriotic message of "La Marseillaise" led to protests from several war veterans' associations.
In collaboration with Jean-Jacques Goldman, Noah released a second album in 2000 entitled simply Yannick Noah, and in October 2006, scored a major French radio airplay hit with the single Donne-moi une vie from a new album entitled Charango.
In 2005, Noah performed at Bob Geldof's Live 8 concert – a fundraiser aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa.
Noah is very active in charity work. He supports 'Enfants de la Terre', a charity run by his mother, Marie-Claire, and founded 'Fête le Mur' in 1996, a tennis charity for underprivileged children.
Yannick Noah : "Charango" (2006, New Age, FULL CD)