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Use dmy dates|date=May 2011Infobox musical artist| image = Emma Shapplin 4.jpg| name = Emma Shapplin| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Crystêle Madeleine Joliton| birth_date = birth date and age|1974|5|19|df=yes| origin = Savigny, France| death_date =| genre = Plainlist|
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Pop music|Pop
Electro house#Electro rock|Electro rock
Classical music|Classical Opera
| years_active = 1997& ndash;present | label = Nimue Music | website = URL| http://www.emma-shapplin.eu/ Emma Shapplin (born Crystêle Madeleine Joliton ru icon / fr icon Interview video with Emma Shapplin for the Russian TV channel TVC. on 19 May 1974, in the Paris suburb of Savignycite web|url= http://www.rfimusique.com/musiqueen/articles/060/article_7007.asp|title=Emma Shapplin: A Vocal and Commercial Phenomenon|publisher=FRI Musique|date=17 January 2003|accessdate=25 January 2009) is a French operatic coloratura soprano .
Biography
Emma Shapplin, neoclassical artist author, composer, and producer, started her music career in classical music but then moved to hard rock . When she was 18, singer :fr:Jean-Patrick Capdevielle|Jean-Patrick Capdevielle convinced her to return to taking classical lessons so as to improve her singing technique. She discovered that although rock had given her more artistic freedom and hedonistic lifestyle than classical music, it was still not enough for her, so she decided to create her own style.en icon English-language interview video with Emma Shapplin on the Etterna CD. This became a combination of archaic opera and modern trance music|trance and/or pop music. Shapplin and Capdevielle subsequently worked together on her first release, Carmine Meo,cite web|url= http://emma-shapplin.net/bio.php|title=Emma Shapplin biographie|accessdate=26 January 2009 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080727051243/ http://emma-shapplin.net/bio.php |archivedate = 27 July 2008 written by Capdevielle.
Although Shapplin was raised speaking French, and sings some of her songs in that language, most of the songs on Carmine Meo were translated from the French in which Capdevielle wrote them in into Latin and old Italian language|Italian , in which Shapplin sang them.cite web|url= http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6160.asp|title=Emma Shapplin biography|accessdate=25 January 2009 On her second release, Etterna, she decided to perform in baroque (17th-century) Italian language|Italian . She did so because, according to her, "It's a language that sings naturally"; and because this is closer to the modern Italian language she used in some of her first classical singing lessons, while the older Italian "lends itself more to poetry, to dreaming, and to drama too".fr icon French-language interview video with Emma Shapplin on the Etterna CD. In particular, she used the spelling "Etterna" for the album and track title because this is the way Dante Alighieri|Dante wrote, rather than the modern Italian "Eterna". She occasionally performs one of her hit songs, La Notte Etterna, in Spanish (as La Noche Eterna). Her single "Discovering Yourself" is in English. Shapplin has co-operated with Greeks|Greek singer George Dalaras and she visits Greece almost every year for concerts in Athens ' ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus .
Shapplin was relatively unknown in the United States until composer Graeme Revell used her voice on his score for the movie Red Planet (film)|Red Planet . They later collaborated on her second album Etterna , with Revell producing all of her songs.
Career
Emma most recently wrote and composed the album Macadam Flower , released late 2009. In line with Shapplin’s experimental and cross-genre style, Macadam Flower combines electro-pop, rock, synth-pop, a touch of opera and classical influences (marked in particular by JS Bach and Debussy), emphasizing sensuality, poetry and drama.cite web|last=Shapplin|first=Emma|title=Marie Claire Russia Interview with Emma Shapplin|url= http://www.emma-shapplin.eu/Press/marie-claire-russia-interview-with-emma-shapplin.html|accessdate=20 June 2011
Shapplin composed and wrote Macadam Flower herself, employing three languages (English, French and ancient Italian). Shapplin calls it “a new soundscape for the sensory experience.”
The album is centered around a solitary fictional character, Maddalena Kean; a young woman residing in the metropolis of her childhood who is herself the macadam flower. The album tells the young woman's story through a collection of diverse melodies, lyrics, languages and musical arrangements, all of which Shapplin chose to express the varying moods of the character. As a modern figure, the young woman is the embodiment of an array of musical styles: electro-pop and soft rock together with classical styles borrowed from Claude Debussy, Jean-Sebastian Bach and popular melodies of Okinawa. Relying also on her passion for poetry, Shapplin said: “I wanted this album to be like a little bubble of softness and smoothness and to sometimes have a bit of the darker emotions with a different approach toward sensuality.”cite web|last=Shapplin|first=Emma|title=Marie Claire Russia Interview with Emma Shapplin|url= http://www.emma-shapplin.eu/Press/marie-claire-russia-interview-with-emma-shapplin.html
The live DVD of “The Macadam Flower Tour” was released in spring 2011.
Etterna (2002, Ark 21 Records / Universal Music Group )
Macadam Flower (2009, Nimue Music/ Universal Music Group / Sony Music ).
Other releases
Discovering Yourself ( Extended play|EP , 1999, Coeur De Lion)
Spente le Stelle (Opera Trance) - The Remixes - Part One ( Remix album , 2000, Radikal Records )
The Concert in Caesarea (live DVD/CD, 2003, Pendragon Records / EMI )
The Macadam Flower Tour - live concert in Athens DVD (June 2011)
References
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External links
commons category|Emma Shapplin
Official website| http://www.emma-shapplin.eu/
en icon http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6160.asp Emma Shapplin's biography
en icon http://www.discogs.com/artist/Emma+Shapplin Emma Shapplin's discography
en icon http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/reviews/emmashap.htm Emma Shapplin's album reviews
Persondata|NAME = Shapplin, Emma |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Joliton, Crystêle Madeleine |SHORT DESCRIPTION = French operatic coloratura soprano |DATE OF BIRTH = 19 May 1974 |PLACE OF BIRTH = Savigny, Paris, France |DATE OF DEATH = |PLACE OF DEATH =
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Category:English-language singers of France Category:Italian-language singers Category:Latin-language singers
