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Emma Shapplin, neoclassical artist, author, composer, and producer, started her music career in classical music but thenmoved to hard rock. When she was 18, singer Jean-Patrick Capdevielle convinced her to return to taking classical lessons soas to improve her singing technique. She discovered that although rock had given her more artistic freedom and hedonisticlifestyle than classical music, it was still not enough for her, so she decided to create her own style.This became acombination of archaic opera and modern trance and/or pop music. Shapplin and Capdevielle subsequently worked togethero ...read more
Emma Shapplin, neoclassical artist, author, composer, and producer, started her music career in classical music but thenmoved to hard rock. When she was 18, singer Jean-Patrick Capdevielle convinced her to return to taking classical lessons soas to improve her singing technique. She discovered that although rock had given her more artistic freedom and hedonisticlifestyle than classical music, it was still not enough for her, so she decided to create her own style.This became acombination of archaic opera and modern trance and/or pop music. Shapplin and Capdevielle subsequently worked togetheron her first release, Carmine Meo, written by Capdevielle.Although Shapplin was raised speaking French, and sings some of her songs in that language, most of the songs on CarmineMeo were translated from the French in which Capdevielle wrote them in into Latin and old Italian, in which Shapplin sangthem. On her second release, Etterna, she decided to perform in baroque (17th-century) Italian. She did so because,according to her, "It's a language that sings naturally"; and because this is closer to the modern Italian language she used insome of her first classical singing lessons, while the older Italian "lends itself more to poetry, to dreaming, and to drama too".In particular, she used the spelling "Etterna" for the album and track title because this is the way Dante wrote, rather thanthe modern Italian "Eterna". She occasionally performs one of her hit songs, La Notte Etterna, in Spanish (as La NocheEterna). Her single "Discovering Yourself" is in English. Shapplin has co-operated with Greek singer George Dalaras and shevisits Greece almost every year for concerts in Athens' ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus.Shapplin was relatively unknown in the United States until composer Graeme Revell used her voice on his score for the movieRed Planet. They later collaborated on her second album Etterna, with Revell producing all of her songs. « hide |
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