Mistral gagnant (song)
| "Mistral gagnant" | |
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| Single by Renaud | |
| from the album Mistral gagnant | |
| Released | 1985 |
| Length | 2:45 |
| Label | Virgin Records |
| Songwriter(s) | Renaud Séchan |
| Producer(s) | Jean-Philippe Goude |
| "Mistral gagnant" | |
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| Single by Cœur de pirate | |
| from the album La Bande à Renaud | |
| Released | 2014 |
| Format | Digital download |
| Recorded | 2013-2014 |
| Length | 3:04 (Album Version) |
| Label | Mercury |
| Songwriter(s) | Renaud Séchan |
| Producer(s) | Dominique Blanc-Francard Alain Lanty |
"Mistral gagnant is the title song from French singer Renaud's 1985 album Mistral gagnant. In the song, Renaud sings to his young daughter Lolita Séchan about his own childhood and realizes that time flies as will fly away the laughs of his daughter as a child.
This broad theme plus the very simple music make this song one of the classics among Renaud's "tender" songs.
A mistral gagnant was a kind of famous candy involving lottery. Some of them were "winning" (gagnant) and one could get another one for free. At his adult age, these candies were not on sale anymore.
Renaud says that he never intended to include the song on his album eventually called Mistral gagnant. He reasoned that the lyrics were just too personal and would not interest the general public. Calling his wife Dominique from the studio while recording his prospective album, he sang her parts of the song on the telephone. After his wife heard it, she loved the song and threatened him: "Si tu ne l'enregistres pas, je te quitte..." (meaning if you don't record this song, I will leave you).
The song has been subject of many covers.
Lara Fabian covered it in her 2003 acoustic concerts at the Olympia in Paris. Her version appeared in En toute intimité album both the CD and DVD both recorded during her concerts on 2 and 3 February 2003.
Other famous covers include those of Yves Duteil, Amel Bent and Jean-Louis Aubert.
There were also live performances by Vanessa Paradis & Maxime Le Forestier who sang it in a duet in the famous Les Enfoirés series. Their duo interpretation was one of the tracks selected for Les incontournables CD of Le meilleur des Enfoirés - 20 ans.
Jean-Louis Aubert sang it live as a duet with Carla Bruni, during the TV special Docteur Renaud, Mister Renard broadcast on France 2 on 29 March 2003.
The song has been a popular feature in television reality music contest. Contestant Ycare sang it on Nouvelle Star on M6 in 2008 and Camélia Jordana on the same program in 2009.
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