Antoine (singer)
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Antoine in 2011
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| Birth name | Pierre Antoine Muraccioli |
| Born |
June 4, 1944 Toamasina, Madagascar |
| Origin | Paris |
| Genres | Folk-rock, Garage rock, Protest music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, sailor, writer |
| Instruments | Guitar, harmonica |
| Labels | Disques Vogue, Barclay Records, RCA Records, Universal Records, Warner Home Video |
| Associated acts | les Problèmes |
| Website | antoine |
Antoine (the mononym by which Pierre Antoine Muraccioli is known) is a French pop singer, and also a sailor and adventurer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker.
As a musician, he was part of a new wave of mid-to-late 1960s French singer-songwriters, comparable in some ways to Bob Dylan or Donovan, but also evidencing some of the harder-edged garage rock style similar to the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and Them, and achieving some measure of pop stardom.
Beginning in the 1970s, he de-emphasized his musical endeavors (although he still writes and performs on occasion) in favor of a second career as a solo sailor and adventurer, which he has documented with many books and films.
From a Corsican family, Antoine was born on June 4, 1944 in Toamasina in Madagascar, then part of the French overseas empire for which his father was working. As a child he lived in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Marseille, and French Cameroons, returning to Metropolitan France for good in 1958. He was graduated from the Lycée Champollion in Grenoble, excelling in advanced mathematics.
A 1964 stay in the United States exposed Antoine to the burgeoning folk music revival on the American east coast. He enrolled as an engineering student in the École Centrale Paris (from which he was graduated in 1966), but also began traveling about, playing his guitar and singing in bistros for pocket money. He also began writing songs.
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