Michel Sardou

Michel Sardou

Born: January 26, 1947
in Paris, France
Michel Charles Sardou, who is known by his credited stage name as Michel Sardou (born 26 January 1947) is a French singer and occasional actor.

He is known not only for his love songs ("La maladie d'amour", "Je vais t'aimer"), but also for songs dealing with various social and political issues, such as the rights of women in Islamic countries ("Musulmanes"), clerical celibacy ("Le curé"), colonialism ("Le temps des colonies", "Ils ont le pétrole mais c'est tout") or the death penalty ("Je suis pour"). Another sometimes controversial theme found in some of his songs ("Les Ricains" and "Monsieur le Président de France" for example) is his respect and support for the culture and foreign policies of the United States of America. He has been accused of being a racist due to his 1976 song "Le temps des colonies", in which a former colonial soldier proudly tells his memories of colonialism, but Sardou has always claimed the song was sarcastic. His 1981 single "Les lacs du Connemara" was an international hit (especially in the Netherlands). A number of his hit songs were written in collaboration with Jacques Revaux and Pierre Delanoë, a few others (most notably "En chantant") with Italian singer Toto Cutugno.

Sardou sold out eighteen consecutive dates at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in 2001, while his 2004 album Du plaisir went straight to the number one spot on the French album charts. With a recording career of fifty years, Sardou has released 25 studio albums, 18 live albums and has recorded more than 350 songs (chiefly in French but also in Spanish, Italian and even English) and has sold more than 100 million records. Currently he is considered as one of the most popular artists in the Francophone world and one of the most lucrative, both in sales and in his shows.

Michel Sardou was born on 26 January 1947 in Paris. His father, Fernand Sardou, was a singer and an actor while his mother, Jackie Sardou was an actress. His paternal grandfather, Valentin Sardou, was a comedian in Marseille, while his grandmother was a singer.

Sardou left school at 17.

Sardou began working as a waiter in his father's cabaret in Montmartre. He eventually met Michel Fugain and auditioned for Eddie Barclay. In 1965, Sardou began his recording career with "Le madras", co-written with Michel Fugain and Patrice Laffont.

In 1967, his career really picked up, thanks to censorship: while France left NATO's integrated military command and the Vietnam War was causing anti-American sentiment in France, Sardou released "Les Ricains" (The Yanks), a song which stated the debt of gratitude towards the US for the liberation of France. Charles de Gaulle did not like the song and he advised against its broadcast on state radio and television. This gave the singer a new notoriety, and the song let him lay the foundations for his future artistic style. However, from 1967 to 1970, he still found it difficult to have big hits. ...

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Movies for Michel Sardou...

Michel Sardou : Je me souviens d'un adieu - Le concert au cinéma
Title: Michel Sardou : Je me souviens d'un adieu - Le concert au cinéma
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 2024
Type: Movie
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Sardou, autoportrait
Title: Sardou, autoportrait
Character: Self
Released: March 29, 2024
Type: Movie
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Tous les chanteurs s'appellent Michel
Title: Tous les chanteurs s'appellent Michel
Released: April 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary on popular French singers spanning over three decades (60s, 70s, 80s).
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Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Title: La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
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N'écoutez pas mesdames
Title: N'écoutez pas mesdames
Character: Daniel Bachelet
Released: December 19, 2021
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou une vie en chantant
Title: Michel Sardou une vie en chantant
Released: September 19, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Archives secrètes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: TV
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Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons
Title: Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 9, 2021
Type: Movie
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The Grand Restaurant III
Title: The Grand Restaurant III
Character: The Mafioso
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: Movie
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
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Michel Sardou - La dernière danse
Title: Michel Sardou - La dernière danse
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou l'indomptable
Title: Michel Sardou l'indomptable
Character: Michel Sardou
Released: April 12, 2018
Type: Movie
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Sardou, le film de sa vie
Title: Sardou, le film de sa vie
Character: Michel Sardou
Released: December 20, 2017
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou – Dernier show
Title: Michel Sardou – Dernier show
Character: Self - Co-Host
Released: October 21, 2017
Type: Movie
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Représailles
Title: Représailles
Released: September 22, 2015
Type: Movie
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Title: Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou - live 2013
Title: Michel Sardou - live 2013
Character: Michel Sardou
Released: November 15, 2013
Type: Movie
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Céline Dion, le grand show
Title: Céline Dion, le grand show
Character: Self
Released: November 24, 2012
Type: Movie
On Saturday, November 24, 2012, Celine Dion appeared in the TV special 'Celine Dion : le grand show', broadcast live on the French channel France 2 and hosted by Michel Drucker and Veronic DiCaire, at the Studios d'Aubervilliers, near Paris, France.
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Les Enfants de la Pop 80's
Title: Les Enfants de la Pop 80's
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2012
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou - Confidences Et Retrouvailles - Live 2011
Title: Michel Sardou - Confidences Et Retrouvailles - Live 2011
Released: May 23, 2011
Type: Movie
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Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Released: November 25, 2005
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou Live 2005 - Palais des Sports
Title: Michel Sardou Live 2005 - Palais des Sports
Released: November 21, 2005
Type: Movie
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Star Academy 1, 2 & 3 en concert au Parc des Princes
Title: Star Academy 1, 2 & 3 en concert au Parc des Princes
Released: July 3, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: La chanson de l'année
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 2004
Type: TV
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Le prix de l'honneur
Title: Le prix de l'honneur
Released: November 24, 2003
Type: Movie
A colonel of the French army is suspected of murder by a former student of the military school, now a police inspector.
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Title: Star Academy
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2001
Type: TV
Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It is broadcast on TF1. At the end of each season, selected contestants would go on tour around France, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, and other French-speaking countries.
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Michel Sardou - Bercy 2001
Title: Michel Sardou - Bercy 2001
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Title: Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou - Salut !
Title: Michel Sardou - Salut !
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
Title: Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
Character: Self - Host
Released: December 22, 1994
Type: Movie
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Title: Studio Gabriel
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Zone interdite
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: TV
The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.
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Michel Sardou - Bercy 93
Title: Michel Sardou - Bercy 93
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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L'irlandaise
Title: L'irlandaise
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A lonely advertising executive finds himself in charge of an Irish teenager with suicidal ideas about heroism.
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Michel Sardou - Bercy 91
Title: Michel Sardou - Bercy 91
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: Movie
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Promotion canapé
Title: Promotion canapé
Character: Bernard
Released: October 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Les Enfoirés 1989 - Tournée d'Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés 1989 - Tournée d'Enfoirés
Released: December 23, 1989
Type: Movie
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Michel Sardou Concert 87
Title: Michel Sardou Concert 87
Character: himself
Released: October 15, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Le monde est à vous
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: TV
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Cross
Title: Cross
Character: Cross
Released: February 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law have been kidnapped by a criminal who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital.
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Title: Ambitions
Character: Self
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self - Co-Host
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (Male Artist of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: (Song of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Michel Sardou - Vivant 83
Title: Michel Sardou - Vivant 83
Character: himself
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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L'Eté de nos quinze ans
Title: L'Eté de nos quinze ans
Character: Bernard
Released: May 15, 1983
Type: Movie
It was during their childhood that François and Malène became friends. Years later, the two teenagers find themselves. Their parents, moved by their reunion, will help them not to spoil this new chance.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Fan School
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 1977
Type: TV
Host Jacques Martin invites different talented children from various backgrounds to showcase their beautiful voices. The participants entertain and wow the audience with their lovely performances.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self - Host
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self - Main Guest
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: un résistant (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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The Double Bed
Title: The Double Bed
Character: (segment 3 "La répétition")
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
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Title: Musik aus Studio B
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 1961
Type: TV
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Four Days in Paris
Title: Four Days in Paris
Character: Un gamin
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Mario, a star ladies' hairdresser, has Nicolas as a friend and Gisèle as his mistress, who is coveted by Nicolas. To boost the salon's finances, Nicolas takes advantage of a billionaire, Madame Alvarez, by selling her a pseudo-rejuvenation serum invented by Mario. Mario suddenly falls in love with a provincial girl, Gabrielle, and pursues her to the South of France, where everyone meets up to finish the film in song.