André Manoukian

André Manoukian

Born: April 9, 1957
in Lyon, Rhône, France
André Antranik Manoukian (Armenian: Անդրե Անդրանիկ Մանուկյան; born 9 April 1957 in Lyon) is a French songwriter, arranger, jazz musician and actor of Armenian descent.

Born in Lyon, France, Manoukian is of Armenian descent. He began playing the piano when he was seven years old. Later, when he was a student, he sold organs in a shop to earn money. At 20, he studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After the basics he studied musical composition, arrangement and harmony.

Upon returning to France Manoukian started a jazz band called Horn Stuff. At the same time he composed for female singers and two jazz-funk albums were recorded. He was also approached to join the band of the singer Michèle Torr.

In 1983 he met the singer Liane Foly and in addition to becoming her partner, he composed her first successes, including Au fur et à mesure and Doucement. He also wrote for such artists as Michel Petrucciani, Richard Galliano, Charles Aznavour, Freddy Zucchet, Gilbert Bécaud, Diane Dufresne, Nicole Croisille, Natacha Atlas, Viktor Lazlo, Janet Jackson, Myriam Abel, Camille Bazbaz et Malia. He completed the musical arrangement and composition for films including Quatre étoiles et Jean-Philippe.

He is currently well known by the general public for being on the M6 reality TV series, Nouvelle Star (New Star). He has been on the jury since the first season along with Marianne James, Manu Katché and Dove Attia. During transmission he is the "poet" and philosopher juror. He is a member of the jury of Nouvelle Star series 6, besides singers Sinclair and Lio and the music journalist Philippe Manoeuvre.

In 2004 he did dubbing in the DVD bonus of Shrek II, where he dubbed one of the jurors of the singing competition.

He was also in the transmission of T'empêches tout le monde de dormir (You stop everyone sleeping) on M6 presented by Marc-Olivier Fogiel where he portrayed in his manner the "Psycho-erotico-cosmico-musical" of the guests by translating the name of a personality in shorthand notes with a melody which he composed and played on the synthesizer.

On 5 February 2007, Manoukian presented the Globes de Cristal besides Elisabeth Quin on Paris Première. Since 21 February 2007 he has presented Dédé les doigts de fée (Dede nimble fingers) on Paris Première, a program about guests who have different music backgrounds. For him, their life is a song recorded on a multi-track. To better portray his guests, Manoukian invites them to recount their lives in a real recording studio and he then composes a novel piece of music based on their stories. In the same year Manoukian composed the new Album (music) for Beverly, a contestant in Nouvelle Star 4 and he also accompanied Miss Dominique at the piano during some of her concerts.

His first book La Mécanique des Fluides (Fluid Mechanics) was released in February 2008. The book is an autobiography in the form of a monologue mainly tracing his artistic career as a pianist and a composer as well as his artistic and emotional life.

In 2011, he was one of the contestants during the first season of Danse avec les stars. With his partner Candice Pascal, he finished in the 8th position (last). ...

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Movies for André Manoukian...

Le tango dans tous ses états
Title: Le tango dans tous ses états
Character: Self - Host
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
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Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Title: Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Character: Self
Released: December 24, 2022
Type: Movie
The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings, the rumors, her love affairs, her marriage, her son, her successes, her farewells, her return, her mourning. The journey of an extraordinary popular icon who never stopped fighting. The courage of an artist who never gives up. "Sheila, toutes ces vies-là" is also a journey through time. 60 years of pop music, punctuated by numerous archives, personal films, timeless hits and illustrations by Marc-Antoine Coulon. But also 60 years of fashion, through a legendary wardrobe (her TV show outfits) that Sheila invites us to rediscover.
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Title: Quelle époque !
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 24, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Vitamine C
Character: Self - Guest
Released: October 10, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: The Chase France
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 5, 2021
Type: TV
For the first time, 4 of the greatest champions of TV games are gathered on the same board. Together they form the Club des Invincibles. In front of them, 10 personalities, each specialist in a field, will do everything to try to beat them!
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Title: Piquantes !
Character: Self - Guest
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: TV
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Starring Grandma
Title: Starring Grandma
Character: André
Released: October 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Frankie Wallach, 25-year-old director, is fascinated by her grand-mother Julia, 94 years old, her death camp survivor story and her joyful personality. She wants to immortalize her as an heroine of fiction for her movie but it's without thinking about the other members of the family, who will want to be a part of it. At the Wallach's, everything is... FULL OF LOVE !
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Title: Tous en cuisine avec Cyril Lignac
Character: Self
Released: March 21, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Les enfants de la musique
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Alexandra Ehle
Character: Aurélien Durrel
Released: March 27, 2018
Type: TV
Alexandra Ehle is a coroner at the Bordeaux forensic institute. Fanciful and free-thinking, she devotes herself completely to what she considers her mission: restoring to the dead their dignity and human appearance, and giving them justice.
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Title: La vie secrète des chansons
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 18, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Frédérik Lanteri
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Piège blanc
Title: Piège blanc
Character: Monsieur Mésange
Released: March 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Our dear neighbors
Character: François
Released: June 4, 2012
Type: TV
Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor, retired always on the lookout for a gossip ... Life and relations - sometimes friendly, sometimes tense , but always funny of a band of neighbors who cross every day, like millions of French ... In front of the landing, in the elevator, while leaving the garbage cans or leaving to work ...
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Moi et ses ex
Title: Moi et ses ex
Character: Thierry
Released: June 15, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Danse avec les stars
Character: Self - Candidate
Released: February 12, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Prof de piano de Raymond et Huguette
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Panique dans l'oreillette
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Character: Thierry Kalamian
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Télématin
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: TV
Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV