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Profile of Art Mengo on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Art Mengo  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 16th September 1962
   
Place of Birth: Toulouse, France
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Michel Armengot (born 1962), more commonly known as Art Mengo, is a French singer and songwriter. Though born in the French city of Toulouse, he was of Spanish descent as his parents had fled from Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

Biography

The Beginnings

It is worth noting that Mengo was born with greatly diminished hearing. In fact, it was estimated by doctors that 70% of his hearing ability was missing. Despite this handicap, his mother gave him a keyboard as a plaything. It is now clear that this had an impact upon his future career.During his teenage years, corrective surgery for his ears helped him to regain his hearing ability. Music, however, was not Mengo's first career plan. Upon completing the baccalauréat, Mengo pursued chemistry and physics at university.

Music

Music initially was a hobby to Mengo as his studies came first. During his university years Mengo would play piano at a local bar during the evenings. Mengo had purchased an 8 Track recorder, and this would play heavily into his move into the music industry. With Mengo writing the music, and his brother-in-law producing lyrics a considerable inventory of music was created. It was good enough for Mengo to get his first record contract in 1988, shortly thereafter he released his first single. His music quickly became popular, and by 1992 he was asked to write a song for French superstar Johnny Hallyday. In 1993he wrote an entire album for German singer Ute Lemper. He performed the song "Parler d'amour" with Ute on this album.

Despite these successes, he remains a cache musician.

Discography

  1. 1990 - Un 15 Aout En Fevrier
  2. 1992 - Guerre D'Amour
  3. 1995 - La Mer N'Existe Pas
  4. 1997 - Live Au Mandala
  5. 1998 - Croire Qu'un Jour
  6. 2003 - La Vie De Chateau

External Links

  • RFI's Art Mengo page

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