Julie Lecrenais: The Voice in Chronologie 3

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Do you remember the little girl that performed Chronologie 3 in the Europe in Concert Tour and the Hong Kong concert with Jean Michel Jarre? That girl was Julie Lecrenais and she kindly gave to Fairlight Jarre an interesting interview 15 years after her last performance with Jarre:


– For those who don’t know about you, please tell us who is Julie Lecrenais?

Well to begin, I am a person having had a lot of luck in these meetings of lives…
I began the singing very early and I dedicated myself to it. Today, I work on the voice and the vocal muscular reeducation. I have just created a company with a friend to develop this aspect of my life : www.passagedesarts.com I followed  music in an academy, specialization operatic (lyric) singing and I work as an author and composer on diverse artistic projects through the jazz, the Celtic and more “personally” with Julie Ell.
I also played as actress in some plays.

– How were your first steps in music and singing?

My first vocal intervention, was during my 5 years in a broadcast of French information, where we had sung a Christmas carol with my nursery class.

– 1993, Jarre embarks in his mythic Europe in Concert Tour: How Jarre contacted you in order to sing in his concerts?

In fact I knew Jean-Michel Jarre through Michel Geiss. Jean-Michel looked for a boy.

– And how was your first contact face to face with Jean Michel Jarre?

Jean-Michel and all his team were formidable with me! Friendly, opened, adorable and very attentive.

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– In 1993 you was very young, but did you heard about JMJ before he contacted with you?

I already knew the phenomenon Jar, and there had been a concert of Houston and that of the Defense which I had followed behind my television screen. And then especially Oxygene!

– How were the rehearsals with JMJ?

There were so many rehearsals as it, but balances before concerts were long, because Jean-Michel remains a perfectionist and very in attentive to the depiction of its “tableau”, but especially to satisfy his public. It is an artist really implied in what he makes.

– In the Jarre concerts there is a lot of playback and pre-recorded music, and Europe in Concert was not an exception… All your performances were live during the concerts??

In fact everybody plays in “Live”, but as in everything the big exceeding concerts one certain count of thousand persons, it is compulsory of préenregistré every part.
It is a safety and it can reduce the deadline of listening of the most remote rows…

– How were your life with Jarre and the rest of musicians during the tour??

We passed several months on roads and they were some sort my “Babysitter”.
Thus it was a magic and completely unreal journey, all more defender some than the others with me, even if I passed more time with Francis and Patrick.
I still wonder if I did not dream about this tour.

– How are your memories about the Europe in Concert tour? Any special good memories?? Any special bad memories??

I believe that there are too much memories to be able to develop it that one… I just know that I would not maybe have chosen this profession without this tour.
If maybe formidable Madrid, four days, but the concert will not have taken place…

– How were your feelings, being almost a child at the time, of performing in front of thousands of people and in such places like Mont Saint Michel, Wembley Stadium, Nepstadium…??

In fact I believe that I already had a perception evolved enough in the world which I had just entered. And then cross several months together with adults, made grow faster.
Only one things it is because we made concerts in front of 60 000 persons and even almost 100 000 and I did not too much feel nervous… Now, it is another story. Adult things seem less spontaneous.

– Do you remember your performances in Spain (Santiago, Sevilla and Barcelona) with the Europe in Concert Tour?

Naturally, I liked Barcelona and all the colors which this city loosens.
The mysterious magic of the site of the World Fair where we played in Seville. A scene so big on some water, it is spectacular!
Then Santiago and its student atmosphere as well as the pelerinage, the magic just man!
But there was especially this lesson of Flamenco under the stage of Barcelona where I was lucky to have before of gone up on stage, and this bagpiper in Santiago, that of memories…

– Please, tell us about the Hong Kong concert project…

Hong-Kong remains rather impressive! We went there to inaugurate the stadium of Wembley, and the concert followed upon the holidays… It was crazy, another dimension, another experience and especially we found us all after Europe in Concert.

– Apart of Chronologie 3, did JMJ planned your participation in another songs of the setlist or did you rehearsed another tracks with him??

No, it turns out that my voice was almost similar to the parts of the synthesizer, and Jean-Michel had imagined a young boy to interpret the purity of it pieces.

– Why your collaboration with Jarre ended?

I think that he said to themselves that the metamorphosis would be problematic indeed that not and that I shall not continue to sing. And then the art director wished to take of the other one roads, the other pictures…

– Have you seen the other versions that Jarre did of Chronologie 3 with another singers?

Not really except for the concert of the Eiffel Tower where I was invited… And then it is little my pieces then…

– Are you following the actual work of JMJ? Do you like his past and present work?? If yes, have yo got any favourite song??

Yes and I remain nostalgic of the period when he collaborated with Michel Geiss, But I liked are return on stage with Oxygen! It was a beautiful very well thought show.

– Would you like to work with Jarre again in a record or a concert??

Why not… Since a few months, several persons contacted me on facebook on this subject and moreover threw a petition for it.
I I continued my road and make so things since! It makes almost 16 years!
But if we suggested me going back up on stage with Jean-Michel, I would be delighted.
I do not know if it will appear one day, Jean-Michel navigates towards other ideas and other artists but why not.

– You have an astounding voice, indeed. Please, tell us about your solo career since 1994 to present time, and about your actual career.

I made an even more surprising road in my meetings artistic after 1994!
I put beacoup of me in this profession and I continuous to advance.
But having dedicated not bad year to be worked on the vocal teaching, I find only since a few months my side interprets and musician…
I have a project of album which I try to make finance by fairtrade music a site of télèchargement which puts back almost everything them of which to the artist whom it supports: http://www.fairtrade-music.com/julieell
Then I have just started there is three one association Celtic world with friend Harpiste and friend Guitariste: the trio Tiksell.
Here is for main lines…

– Apart from your concerts in 1993, have you ever performed  in Spain?

Not regrettably I did not have this opportunity, but I carry enormously Spain in my heart, and I have moreover several friends Spanish around me!
They represent the kindness, the cheerfulness and the embodied sweetness!


Merci pour votre temps et de bonté, Julie!!

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One Reply to “Julie Lecrenais: The Voice in Chronologie 3”

  1. Very enjoyable reading from Miss Lecrenais. I wanted to know what she thought about the Symphonic version of Chronologie 3…

    Many people are nostalgic of Michel Geiss and wonderful Julie !

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