Mandarin-speaking French Singer-songwriter Joyce Jonathan
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Joyce Jonathan 2019 China Tour
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8:30pm
Saturday, May 25th
V E N U E
MAO Livehouse
3/F, Shangcheng 1157, 77 South Zhongshan Road
中山南路77号尚城1157利星3楼
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Breakout YouTube star Joyce Jonathan has hit mainstream and now traveling through Asia including Shanghai and Hangzhou to promote her new album, exclusive to Asia. The French pop singer is a star on the rise with three albums under her belt, including a hit single Ça ira, her latest album features tracks in English, French and Mandarin, as well as duets with Taiwanese singer Dawen and popular Chinese-Canadian singer Qu Wanting.
Her two singles, "Je ne sais pas" and "Pas besoin de toi", come from her first album "Sur mes gardes" released in January 2010. Only five months after its release, the album was certified gold. In August, the album climbed to first place in sales of albums for download.
In August 2010, her single “L'heure avait sonné” was chosen by the directors of the American series Gossip Girl to illustrate the soundtrack of the first episode of season 4.
In 2011, she won the category Francophone Breakthrough of the year of the NRJ Music Awards 2011. She has just recorded a song "Mystères" with Pétula Clark. Her second album, “Caractère”, was released in June 2013. The first single was “Ça ira”. She was nominated at the NRJ Music Awards for best female singer and best song.
- Caractère - Ça ira
Joyce Jonathan released her song “Le Bonheur” in September 2015. It is the first single of her 3rd album, “Une place pour moi”, which was released on 5 February 2016.
- Le Bonheur
On 4 May 2018, Joyce Jonathan released her single "On", which will be a track of an album set to be released soon in 2018.
When Joyce Jonathan first looked up at the skyscrapers and immersed herself in the bustling markets of Hong Kong, the then-13-year-old was immediately fascinated and overwhelmed by how different it was from her hometown in France. “It was my first time experiencing such a fast-paced mega city,” she says.
Surprisingly, Jonathan admits that she was an introvert as a child, but music helped her communicate with the rest of the world. “I wasn’t talkative, but I would always express my feelings and emotions through music,” she explains.
Jonathan started playing piano aged five, and wrote her first song at 11. However, it wasn’t until she was 16 that she got noticed by the record label MyMajorCompany. To raise the 70,000 euros (HK$618,000) needed to make her debut album, Sur Mes Gardes, she and her label turned to a crowd-funding website, which asked other people to invest in her music.
“With this system, we ended up having 486 producers on my first album,” she says.
As a show of thanks, Jonathan would turn to her supporters for advice. “I asked them which song they’d prefer as the first single and which photo they’d like as the album cover. I even invited some of them to my shows,” she says.
Maggie & Rose is a family-oriented member’s club originally established in London, with the compelling founder’s tale of a working mother frustrated by the lack of stimulating and interesting activities and spaces for kids and their families rolling up her sleeves and doing something about it.
The resources, staff, design, and activities all support this account. Located a five minute walk from the People’s Square stop in Xiaoshan, Maggie & Rose is filled with experienced and energetic people, play spaces filled with blocks and ball pits and finger paints, a mini-theater for movies, a stage for plays, a music studio, a full kitchen for cooking classes.
So when the Chinese division of Warner Brothers called Jonathan to ask if she wanted to release her albums in China, she said yes straight away and decided to re-record her hits ... in Putonghua.
“I wanted to sing my own songs in Chinese. My parents were very supportive of my decision,” she says.
After gaining a large Chinese following, Jonathan was invited by Alliance Française to judge a Shanghai singing contest, in which the contestants were scored on their ability to speak French. Many chose to perform Jonathan’s songs.
She says, “I realised some people were singing my songs – I was told they learn French with my music.”
Her frequent trips to China led to a collaboration with Wanting Qu, a Chinese-born, Canada-based singer-songwriter. Their similar songwriting styles enabled them to co-write Sans Toi just two days after meeting.
Both sing in their native languages. “It’ s an exchange of cultures – was very natural for her to sing in Mandarin and me in French,” says Jonathan.
Instead of trying to make it big internationally, Jonathan wants to focus on just the French and Asian markets. “My goal is to do more shows in France and China instead of thinking about the other countries--it’s important for me to make sense of what I’m doing right now.”
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MAO Livehouse
3/F, Shangcheng 1157, 77 South Zhongshan Road
中山南路77号尚城1157利星3楼
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0571 8783 5787
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