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French music: BoB Sinclar

Bob Sinclar, mistaken many times as "Sinclair" (born Christophe Le Friant, May 10, 1967) is a French record producer, House music DJ, remixer and owner of the label Yellow Productions.

Sinclar started DJing in 1986, when he was 18 years old, specializing in funk and hip-hop music, with the name Chris The French Kiss. His first club hit was "Gym Tonic", a collaboration with Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, featuring vocals illegally taken from a Jane Fonda fitness tape. The Bob Sinclar persona was based on a character from Philippe de Broca's film Le Magnifique.

Sinclar is famous for popularizing the "French touch" of house music, with heavy use of sampled and filtered disco strings. His track "I Feel For You", a tribute to French musician Cerrone, from his second album Champs Elysées, hit #9 in the UK Top 40. On track "Darlin'", he worked with vocalist James "D-Train" Williams.

Sinclar has also worked under other pseudonyms. Under the aliases The Mighty Bop and Reminiscence Quartet, he has dabbled in hip-hop and acid jazz. He also created the Africanism project, where an ensemble of artists produce house music with a combination of Latin, jazz, African and tribal flavors.

In 2005 he scored a hit with the single "Love Generation", that reached #1 on the Australian ARIA Singles Charts and the German Media Control Single Charts in 2006. The song was a huge success throughout Europe, also peaking at no. 2 in the Dutch Top 40 and it stood 39 weeks in the Ultratop 50 in Belgium. It also became one of the official anthems for the World Cup 2006 held in Germany. The follow-up hit was "World, Hold On", that features Steve Edwards and also managed to chart in the top ten in most of the European countries. "Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)" followed on August 22, 2006.

The remix of "World, Hold on" by E-Smoove is nominated for a Grammy 2007 in the category "Remixed Recording". Also, "World Hold on" topped in Billboard Magazine as Number One Hot Dance Club Play Single of 2006, beating Madonna and Christina Aguilera.

The fourth single of the album 'Western Dream' called 'Tennessee' was supposed to be released in April 2007, but has been canceled due to the rumour of a new album being released.

This album is Soundz of Freedom. It came out in France on May 21st. It has not yet come out in the United States.

Discography

Singles

as The Mighty Bop

1994 "Les Jazz Electroniques EP"

1995 "Messe Pour Les Temps"

1996 "Ult Violett Sounds EP"

1998 "Feelin' Good"

2002 "I Go Crazy"

2003 "Lady", with Duncan Roy

as Africanism

2000 "Bisou Sucré"

2000 "Do It", with Eddie Amador

2001 "Kazet"

2002 "Viel Ou La"

2004 "Amour Kéfé"

2004 "Kalimbo"

2004 "Steel Storm", with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2005 "Summer Moon", with David Guetta

2006 "Hard", with The Hard Boys

as Bob Sinclar

1996 "A Space Funk Project"

1996 "A Space Funk Project II"

1997 "Eu Só Quero um Xodó", with Salomé de Bahia

1998 "Gym Tonic", with Thomas Bangalter

1998 "My Only Love", with Lee Genesis

1998 "Super Funky Brake's Vol. I"

1998 "The Ghetto"

1998 "Ultimate Funk

2000 "I Feel For You", with Cerrone's Angels

2000 "Darlin'", with James "D-Train" Williams

2000 "Greetings From Champs Elysées EP"

2001 "Freedom" , with Gene Van Buren

2001 "Ich Rocke"

2001 "Save Our Soul"

2002 "The Beat Goes On", with Linda Lee Hopkins

2003 "Kiss My Eyes", with Camille Lefort #22 US Hot Dance Music/Club Play.

2003 "Prego", with Eddie Amador

2003 "Slave Nation"

2004 "Sexy Dancer", with Cerrone's Angels

2004 "Wonderful World", with Ron Carroll

2004 "You Could Be My Lover", with Linda Lee Hopkins

2005 "Love Generation", with Gary Pine — #2 ([[1]])EURO 200 #2 (NL), #3 FR, #3 ITA, #1 AUS, #1 GER, #12 UK, #8 RU, #1 CZ,#1 US Hot Dance Club Play Singles, #11 US Hot Dance Airplay.

2006 "Generación Del Amor" (Spanish Version) — #1 SPN

2006 "World, Hold On (Children of the Sky)", with Steve Edwards — #5 (NL), #2 FR, #8 CZ #1 SPN, #19 AUS, #9 UK, #4 RU, #1 US Hot Dance Club Play Singles, #10 US Hot Dance Airplay. #50 US Pop Airplay

2006 "Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)", with Cutee B Feat. Dollarman & Big Ali — #3 FR, #11 CZ, #3 UK, #7 AUS, #2 US Hot Dance Club Play.

2007 "Tennessee", with Farell Lennon — January 2007 #15 ITA,#27 CZ

2007 "Everybody", with Ron Carroll — #3 GER, #1 SPN

2007 "Give A Lil' Love" — #11 ITA , #27 SPN

2007 "Sound of Freedom", with Cutee B, Gari Nesta Pine & Dollarman — #14 UK #24 CZ

2007 "What I Want", presents Fireball — July 2007

[edit] Albums

as Bob Sinclar

1998 Paradise

2000 Champs Elysées

2003 III

2004 Enjoy

2005 In The House (Various Artists Mix CD)

2006 Western Dream

2007 Soundz Of Freedom

as The Mighty Bop (with Alain Ho)

1995 La Vague Sensorielle

1995 The Mighty Bop Meets DJ Cam & La Funk Mob, with DJ Cam and La Funk Mob

1996 Autres Voix, Autres Blues

1996 Autres Voix, Autres Blues

2000 Spin My Hits

2002 The Mighty Bop

as Reminiscence Quartet (with Alain Ho and Sebastien Jallier)

1994 Ritmo Brasileiro

1995 Psycodelico

1999 More Psycodelico

as Yellow Productions (with Alain Ho and Cutee B.)

1994 A Finest Fusion Of Black Tempo

as Africanism (see all members on discogs.com)

2001 Africanism Allstars Vol. I, as Africanism

2004 Africanism Allstars Vol. II, as Africanism

2005 Africanism Allstars Vol. III, as Africanism

2006 Africanism Allstars Vol. IV, as Africanism

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