GĂ©rald de Palmas
Acting
GĂ©rald Gardrinier (born 14 October 1967 in Saint-Denis, RĂ©union), better known by his stage name GĂ©rald de Palmas, is a French singer-songwriter. GĂ©rald de Palmas was born in France. His father was a land surveyor from Brittany and his mother was a French teacher from RĂ©union. At the age of 10, De Palmas' family left RĂ©union, to live in Aix-en-Provence, France. At the age of 13, he discovered ska music, and became a fan of the UK band The Specials. Then he met Ătienne Daho and formed a group called Les Max Valentin together with Edith Fambuena and Jean-Louis Pierot. They released the single 'Les Maux Dits' in 1987, but De Palmas was uncomfortable with this group, and went solo. After seven years of writing and singing solo, Da Palmas won a talent contest on the French M6 TV network. In 1994, GĂ©rald de Palmas, or just De Palmas as an artistic name, released his first album La derniĂšre AnnĂ©e (The Last Year), which contains the hit song Sur la Route (On the Road). He won a Victoires de la Musique award in 1996. De Palmas released his second album Les Lois de la Nature (Laws of Nature) in 1997. The album was less successful than his debut album, probably due to the dramatic change in his style. He was in the slumps for two and a half years, until 2000. That's when Jean-Jacques Goldman restored his confidence and wrote a song for him titled J'en rĂȘve encore (I still dream about it). De Palmas composed and wrote 10 of the 12 songs in his third album Marcher dans le sable (Walking in the sand). He was reborn as a star in 2002, as he won the Victoires de la Musique and the NRJ Music Awards, while playing more than 180 concerts. His songs even crossed the Atlantic, when CĂ©line Dion sang his hit song Tomber (falling) in English, titled Ten Days. At the end of that year, Live 2002 was released on DVD and on CD, to commemorate his great tour of 2002. Two years later, De Palmas returned with his fourth album Un homme sans racines (A man without roots), a more intimate album with less music, but still in the same melancholic style. After having problems with Universal, GĂ©rald de Palmas came back in November 2009 with his new album "Sortir" (Leaving) with the hit single "Au bord de l'eau". His latest album is "La beautĂ© du geste" released in the summer of 2016. GĂ©rald de Palmas is divorced and has two children, a boy, Victor (born in 1996) and a girl, Rose (born in 2003). Source: Article "GĂ©rald de Palmas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
