Tag: pop

Throwback: Happy 76th Birthday, Anita Pointer!

JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 76th anniversary of the birth of The Pointer Sisters’ Anita Pointer.

New Audio: Enitu and Yul Tackle a Beloved and Iconic 70’s French Hit

Enitu and Yul is an emerging French electro pop duo that features two accomplished artists:

Enitu is a vocalist, who grew up in a musical home. Her father was a musician. With his encouragement, she began singing before she could speak. When she turned 11, she began studying at the conservatory and joined her first choir. By the time she turned 13, she joined her high school choir. She went on to study at Sorbonne Université, where she performed with he choir and orchestra, with which performed classical music in France and in Abu Dhabi.

Around the same time, she began to regular attend open mics across Paris and played with several bands, including one with her father. Last year, she began collaborating with French musician, sound designer and DJ Yul — and she’s working on her Yul-produced full-length, solo debut.

Yul is a musician, sound designer and DJ, who has created music for movies, theater and art installations. Back in 2004, he founded Résiste, which produces radio dramas, sound post-production, creates websites and manages artists. But in 2016, the company began releasing original material –including under his own name and with Toxiq, an act that saw him collaborating with Claire Deligny and Manuel Roland.

The pair’s latest single, sees them tackling France Gall‘s beloved and iconic, 1977 hit song “Si Maman Si.” The original is built around a Burt Bacharach-meets-70s Elton John-like arrangement of twinkling piano and soaring strings paired with Gall’s plaintive delivery. The Enitu and Yul cover subtly modernizes the song while retaining the original’s feel and spirit: Piano and strings are replaced with twinkling synths and thumping beats, while Enitu’s melody manages to bear an uncanny resemblance to Gall’s. It’s French chanson — but for those heartbroken souls crying in the corner of the club, desperate to go home.

New Video: Fabien Gravillon Shares Breezy Pop Confection “Je t’attends”

Fabien Gravillon is a Paris-born singer/songwriter, pop artist and actor, who may be best known in France for starring in the smash-hit soap opera Plus belle la vie. As a singer/songwriter and pop artist, Gravillon has specialized in a sound that draws from Zouk, Kizomba and Afro pop.

After the release of his debut album through Because Music, Gravillon went to Los Angeles and appeared in several videos by internationally acclaimed artists including Macklemore and  Patrick Stump‘s “Summer Days,” Collapsing Scenery and others. He also participated in several projects filmed at Fox Studios in Hollywood and for The Jim Henson Company.

Gravillon’s latest single “Je t’atends” is a slickly produced bit of hook-driven pop that meshes elements of reggaeton and chanson in a way that’s crowd-pleasing and accessible. Much like his previously released material, “Je t’attends” is an earnest plea of devotion to a lover that feels and sounds sweetly old-fashioned.

Directed by Roger Artola and Griffit Vision, the accompanying video for “Je t’attends” was shot on a gloriously summer day in Los Angeles and tells a classic tale of deception, cheating and devotion.

Deriving her artist name from a Turkish term for the sun’s radiant touch on ocean waters just before sunrise, the emerging pop artist TANSU has a diverse and global cultural background with roots in Turkey and Ireland. She spent her formative years in London and Connecticut, had a stint in Boston for college, and has called NYC home for the past 13 years. 

During that period, TANSU has carefully balanced her life between music and fashion, which she defines as performing arts. While working in fashion PR, she lent her vocals to numerous projects as a session and featured vocalist, most recently releasing The Wash Up EP co-produced with Lars Viola. She also performs extensively around both lower and Manhattan, including a monthly residency at Lafolia Restaurant, every first Thursday.

Back in 2015, the emerging pop artist reconnected with American Authors‘ Dave Rublin, a college acquaintance. Since then, they’ve been writing and recording music together, last month’s “DOWNTOWN,” which was released through through Rublin’s Little Planet Records

Her latest single “Got 2 Me” is a simmering soul-pop ballad that pairs an atmospheric, modern pop production featuring glistening synths, skittering beats, bursts of twinkling keys, wobbling bass synths and bursts of funk guitar with TANSU’s show-stopping powerhouse vocal. The result is a song that serves as vehicle that showcases a superstar in the making.

“‘Got 2 Me’ is a very vulnerable song about trusting someone to love you the right way,” TANSU says.  “After falling in love the wrong way, it’s all the more difficult to fall in love again, correctly. This song is about that path.”