Melody Gardot

Récompensé aux Victoires de la musique, aux Césars, aux Lumières et lauréat des plus grands concours internationaux de musique classique, Ibrahim Maalouf est de retour à l'AccorHotels Arena cinq ans après son concert historique en ces lieux. Pour l'occasion, il s'entoure d'une pléiade de musiciens et d'artistes. Parmi eux, la musicienne américaine Melody Gardot, la chanteuse brésilienne Flavia Coehlo, le pianiste cubain Rolando Luna, la violoniste cubaine Yilian Cañizares ou encore le saxophoniste cubain Irving Acao. Le vieil ami du virtuose, le guitariste François Delporte, est également de la partie.

Melody Gardot performed live at the Jazz à Juan on July 17, 2010.

Octobre 2015, Melody Gardot faisait une nouvelle escale à l’Olympia pour retrouver son public français. Filmé en haute définition, le concert contient des titres de son dernier opus Currency Of Man, de My One And Only Thrill sorti en 2009 et quelques classiques. À la guitare ou au piano, Melody offre un show très élégant teinté de jazz, de blues et de R&B, alternant groove et moments plus intimes, soutenue par 7 musiciens exceptionnels dont une section cuivre aux accents très soul.

With "The Absence" Melody Gardot presents her third album in 2012. Almost titled as the new "Diva des Jazz", the singer is breaking new ground in which flamenco, fado and samba are the predominant musical colors. The 27-year-old American went on a trip around the world for this, and so each title of the new album tells its own story of cultural encounters in Portugal, Morocco, Argentina and Brazil.

C’est dans l’intimité du légendaire château d’Hérouville, studio mythique qui a vus passer les plus grands artistes, que Melody Gardot se confie sur son parcours de musicienne et interprète quelques-uns des plus beaux titres de son répertoire.

Jazz sensation Melody Gardot's grief-stricken, yet inspirational, journey to stardom is captured in this inspiring documentary. After being struck by a car in 2003, an accident that left her with life-altering injuries, Gardot began the emotional expedition towards healing. This special follows her path to recovery, intimately revealing how she used music as therapy to heal her spirit and ultimately impress the world. Featuring candid interviews and performances of her most famous songs from albums "Worrisome Heart" and "My One And Only Thrill".

The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s, to fill nightclubs and saloons across the US in the 50s and early 60s as a force in her own right. Looking at the lives and careers of six individual singers (Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone and Annie Ross), the film not only talks to those who knew and worked with these queens of jazz, but also to contemporary singers who sit on the shoulders of these trailblazing talents without having to endure the pain and hardship it took for them to make their highly individual voices heard above the prejudice of mid-century America.

Melody Gardot investit le Studio 104 de Radio France pour une soirée unique associant jazz et musique symphonique, autour de "Sunset in the Blue", son album enregistré à distance lors du confinement du printemps 2020.

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."