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About Me

Hum... I'm here...


OK let's start with a short movie of my friend Christian and I, at noon at the so called '24 Colonnes' select "bouchon", typical restaurant in Lyons' downtown:


Then, a photo with my husband:

One of the family:

My son, David:

My parents:

Rehearsal with Elise., who played with me on stage (I was her guitarist):

I play on stage with Thomas (a super friend and impassioned by mathematics, like me); this is a photo of my wedding: We have another going on project: Shouting Mess & manujoe, where I play the guitars, and I do masterings. Perhaps one day you will able to listen to our music :) .

Perhaps we'll have new members, Alex and Nico, my husband's sons :):

(They were trying to play the guitar and the saxophone with mine :) :) ).

Be careful! I wrote these songs when I was 16-17. So...

Would you like to get more exciting topics on my life in my blog (for inst. Music or whatever), stay tuned and be a little bit patient!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/09/2006
Band Members:

manu: Author, composer, "interpret" (I don't like my voice, so someone else sings my old songs...).

Guitars, Basses, Alto saxophone, Voice, Choirs, Keybords, Drums, Drum machine, Recordings, Mixings and Masterings.

I played on stage with:
Elise. : Guitars, Choirs.
Thomas : Bass.


Influences:

BLUES: Lightin' Hopkins, Howlin'Wolf, Big Billy Bronzy, Buddy Guy, Josh White, Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississipi John Hurt, Popa Chubby, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bessie Smith, Memphis Slim, le jeune Ray Charles, Blind Blake, Muddy Waters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, John Mayall, Bessie Smith, Robert Cray, Billie Holliday, Leadbelly,T-Bone Walker, Johnny Winter, Magic Sam, Eric Clapton, Magic Slim, Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Taj Mahal, Sarah Vaughan, John Mc Laughlin, Robert Nighthawk, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Michael Jones, Manu Galvin...

JAZZ: Sonny Stitt, Max Roach, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, George Duke, Stéphane Grapelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Clifford Brown, Fats Domino, Art Blakey, Fats Waller, John Coltrane, Artie Shaw, John Butler, Scott Joplin, Charles Mingus, Belmondo, Al di Meaola, Marcus Miller, Richard Galliano, Chet Baker, Didier Lockwood, Eddie Louis, Glen Miller, Lalo Schiffrin, Keith Jarret, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Clark Terry, Sydney Bechet, Dave Brubeck, Lubat, Oscar Peterson, Claude Nougaro, Django Reinhardt, Michel Petrucciani, Amy Winehouse, Astor Piazzolla, Ornette Coleman, Claude Bolling, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Miles Davies, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon...

60's and 70': Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Tai Phong, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, The Police, Chuck Berry, Supertramp, James Brown, Iggy Pop, The Kinks, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Marcel Dadi, The Doors, Simon&Garfunkel, Grateful Dead...

CROONERS: Jamie Cullum, Frank Sinatra, Paolo Conte...

FRENCH SONGS: Têtes Raides, Maxime Le Forestier, Georges Brassens, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Michel Berger, Manset, Renaud, Yann Tiersen, Huber-Félix Thiéfaine, Jean-Louis Murat...

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Gregorian and Cistercian songs, JS Bach, Claude Debussy, Hector Berlioz, Erik Satie, Dvorak, Strauss, Haendel, Smetana, Moussorski, Haydn, Schumann, Carl Orff,Mendelson, Grieg, Pergolesi, Jordi Savall, Khachaturian, Gershwin, Schubert...

ROCK: Sonic Youth, Noir Désir, Muse, Radiohead, Placebo, RATM, Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, Depeche Mode, Aerosmith, Elvis Costello, REM, T-Rex, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Guns'n Roses, Portishead, Black Sabbath, Cardigans, Cat Stevens, Creed, RHCP, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Rea, Bruce Springsteen...

BO: Badalamenti (Twin Peaks, Mulholand Drive)...

PUNK: Trust, Beruriers Noirs, Millencolin, Bad Religion, Green Day, Nirvana, Sex Pistols, Pretenders...

INTERNATIONAL VARIETY: Bjork, The Platters, Fiona Apple, Tracy Chapman, Eagle Eye Cherry, Stevie Wonder...

And many, many, many I've forgotten...


Sounds Like:

Simplement (ORIGINAL)

You Won't Be Long (ORIGINAL)

Little Flower (ORIGINAL)

Ca ne se dit pas (ORIGINAL)

Space Oddity (COVER - David Bowie)

Submissive Lover (ORIGINAL), Lyrics Héléna D.

Record Label:
Not yet
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Epilepsy - Vidoes in French (This is not music !)

These are videos of my hospitalisation about my epilepsy. It's in French.Epilepsy Video 1 Epilepsy Video 2 Epilepsy Video 3 Epilepsy Video 4 Epileps...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:44:00 GMT

Je suis Maman !!!

Voici quelques photos de mon fils, David, qui est né le 23 septembre à 23:53 :
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:43:00 GMT

"Les fous sauveront le monde" (novel in french)

 (Still under construction)J'avais tout donné. Tout perdu aussi. C'est dans la nature humaine, ça. Faut un échange. Toujours. On recherche ça. Je pouvais pas recevoir d'amour. Alors j'ai décidé d...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:10:00 GMT

Some of my friends when I was hospitalized (videos)

This is to a great extent thanks to them if I have decided to play music, after a big big break (five years).
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:27:00 GMT

Rehearsal for my wedding (musical videos)

Ladies and gentlemen, Philippe & Valérie !!!
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:14:00 GMT

My wedding (some photos)

At the ChurchPhilippe singin' ElvisValérie and Philippe playin' Schubert ("Ave Maria")At the party (Saint Etienne by night ;) )My husband and I, Philippe and his wife Agnès, and JérômeThomas, Frank an...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:23:00 GMT

Mathematical Links

If you want to read mathematics, go on these web sites:Algebra:JeromePhilippePolyhedra:Fr. Magnus WenningerPolyhedra plaited with paper stripsNice views: Hyperbolic TesselationsEncyclopedia:Mathcurve...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:45:00 GMT