Patricia Kaas was born on December 5, 1966, in a small town called Forbach in the Lorraine region at Eastern France, just by the German border. From her childhood Patricia was surrounded by both cultures, and it?s not surprising - her father was a French man, while her mother was German.The youngest child of the family, Patricia was very shy and modest. She loved spending time in her room, listening to Claude Francois? music. Patricia loved singing since early childhood. She met her first stage at the age of 8. It was during a carnival in her hometown Forbach, she sang Claude Francois? song Sale Bonhomme and won her first award - a bag of candy. From the age of 9 until 12, Patricia together with her sister Carine participated in the parades that took place at Stiring-Wendel. At the same time she joined the band Black Flowers where she sang popular disco songs.At 13 Patricia got a contract at the German cabaret-club Rumpelkammer at Saarebruck, at the German side of the border. She sang 3 times a week, at times the performances lasted until 3-4 at night. Patricia became almost a professional singer and stayed in this cabaret for 7 years. Supported by her mother, Patricia decided to make a choice in favour of her future singer career and to drop out of school.In 1983, a man named Bernard Schwarz came into the Rumpelkammer club. This man was not a famous musical producer but an architect from Bitche (Moselle). «When I came into the club I didn?t notice her. I only heard a deep low voice. I looked around, and I was shocked to see this small fragile blonde girl.» Only a year later, in May 1984, Schwarz came back to the club with friends. The next day Schwarz called his friends in Paris and arranged a meeting with Joel Cartigny, a director at the Phonogram studio.Cartigny fought with Phonogram to make a record with Patricia, but it wasn?t easy. He was told every time that she would`t sell because at that time the french chanson wasn?t popular. Meanwhile Cartigny decided to leave Phonogram and start an independent production. And he decided he would make Patricia a star. To get to know her better he went to Forbach, met her family at their little house. He shot a video cassette of Patricia during her performance at the Rumpelkammer club. Cartigny knew a few people in show business. He demonstrated the video cassette to Gerard and Elisabeth Depardieu. When a phone rang at the Kaas? home, and Gerard Depardieu himself asked to talk to Patricia, she thought it was a joke. He and his wife were so impressed with her voice, they decided to produce her first single. Elisabeth co-wrote a song with Francois Bernheim (a songwriter who was also friends with Joel Cartigny) and Gerard produced it. The song was called Jalouse (Jealous). A promo version of the single was released in 1985 in France and Germany thanks to Gerard?s financing. Schwartz, who became Patricia?s personal producer, decides to finance another record for his protege. Again they turn to Francois Bernheim, and he turns to another fellow songwriter Didier Barbelivien. Barbelivien digs up a song, an un-exploited treasure, which he wrote back in 1977. A song called Mademoiselle chante le blues.In the beginning of 1987, Bernard Schwartz and Patricia sign a contract with the record company Polydor, and in April of that year the record Mademoiselle chante le blues is released. Suddenly it was a big hit. In 1988 Patricia moves to Paris. She returns to the studio and records her first album. The songs all written in collaboration by Didier Barbelivien and Francois Bernheim. The album Mademoiselle chante… is finally released in November 1988. In a couple of weeks it becomes gold in France, in another tree weeks - platinum. It also gets platinum in Switzerland and Belgium, and successfully sells in Spain, Germany, Austria, Canada, Japan, Holland, 3 million copies worldwide. In the spring of 1989 Patricia starts a promotion tour around Europe and USSR. On April 10, 1990, the second album is out. Scene de vie (Scene of life), under a new company, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Systems). Bernard Schwartz leaves his position as a manager, in favor of real professional - Cyril Prieur. In December Patricia is chosen as Voice Of The Year by the audience of RTL and FR3.In January 1991 the first part of her tour ends after 8 concerts in Russia, 6 in Germany, 11 in Canada and 5 in Japan. Patricia is invited to the World Music Awards in Monaco where she gets the Best French Singer Of The Year award. After a short break, in October 1992, Patricia begins the recordings of her next album. Another man entered into Patricia?s career. Robin Millar, who produced Sade and Fine Young Cannibals, interested Patricia and she wished to meet him. Finally they went to London, where all Robin?s team worked. They recorded at Pete Thownshend?s Eal Pie Studio for 3 months. On April 6, 1993, the album Je te dis vous was released in 47 countries. In USA and the UK it is called Tour de charme.
The tour started at the end of September 1993. It begins with USA, then Europe, Russia, Japan, China, Australia… In Paris Patricia gives 10 concerts at the Zenith Hall. In Russia she sings a song in Russian with the Red Army choir. By March 1994 Je te dis vous goes diamond. Patricia becomes the first French female artist to sell more than a million copies of each of her first 3 albums.In June of 1996 does she comes back to New York to work on her next album with Phil Ramone. The album is finally launched in March 1997, after practically 3 years of waiting for new material. The album is dedicated to Patricia?s parents. In January 1998 Patricia begins her third world tour, called simply Rendez-vous. In June a live album Rendez-vous is released, it?s taped during 2 concerts at the Olympia. The concert is also released on VHS and DVD.
The year 1999 begins, and Patricia is already in studio, working on a new album. This album is produced by Pascal Obispo. On May 18, 1999, the new album Le mot de passe (The password) is released in 40 countries. It remains on the 2nd position in sales for a month, selling 1 million copies worldwide, 570,000 of them in France. In October 1999 Patricia begins her 4th world tour that shall be called Ce sera nous (It will be us - a line from the song Le mot de passe). Patricia decides that this tour will be designed in the atmosphere of East, she was enchanted by it when she visited Morocco. 120 concerts take place in France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, US, Finland, Canada... On August 29 the live album Ce sera nous / Les chansons commencent is released on a double CD. It is also released on DVD and VHS.The famous French movie director Claude Lelouch, known around the world most of all for his movie Un homme et une femme approaches Patricia with an interesting offer. On December 18, 2000, in great secrecy, Patricia makes the auditions for the new Lelouch movie And Now… Ladies & Gentlemen. On December 26 the journal Le Parisien announces that it is Patricia who was chosen to the female lead. She is Jane, a jazz singer disappointed with love…At the beginning of September, a new Patricia song hits the radios - Rien ne s?arrete. It?s the new song on Patricia?s first greatest hits album, Best of 1987-2001, also known as Rien ne s?arrete (Nothing stops). Sort of a conclusion after 14 years of career, more than 600 concerts all over the world, and around 14 millions copies of albums sold around the world. The Best of album sells over 500,000 copies in France and 300,000 outside France.
On April 16, the soundtrack named Piano bar by Patricia Kaas is released. On May 26 the movie And Now… Ladies & Gentlemen is presented at the Cannes festival outside the competition. On May 29 it is released to cinemas across France. In September 2002 Patricia starts a Piano Bar world tour, a show that plays a tribute to the French chanson. Fall 2003, Patricia is in studio recording. In this album Patricia goes in the direction of rock, after the quiet Piano Bar she sings with all her energy and with all her blues. We meet the new Patricia, a grown woman, single, independent and strong. She names her album Sexe fort - The Strong Sex. On summer 2004 the Sexe Fort tour hits the roads. A show filled with energy, where Patricia reveals her rocky side. All in all there are 165 concerts in 25 countries viewed by 500 000 spectators. For the first time, more than twenty concerts take place in cities throughout Russia and the CIS from Kiev to Irkutsk. On 31 January 2005 live album Toute la musique ... (All music) is released. The European tour ends on August 29 with the concert in the Paris Olympia, where with the ambitious 4-hour concert singer celebrates 20 years of artistic activity. At the end of 2005, Patricia decides to take a break. The new album and world tour scheduled to be launched in November 2008. In early 2008, Patricia Kaas records duo and films a video clip with popular Russian band Umaturman for the song "Ne pozvonish" (You won't call). In March of the same year, she signs a contract and becomes a "face" of L'Etoile company, Russia's largest network of perfumes and cosmetics.
Recently, Patricia has presented her new album Kabaret, released in November 2008 in Russia as special L'Etoile boutiques promo and paid download at Nokia Music and iTunes. Patricia has recorded around 25 tracks for her album, and plans to release special versions for French, Russia, German and English speaking audiences in early 2009. Since 20th of January album will be available for purchase on site vente-privee.comAlbum represents 'cabaret' style of 30-40s and includes mostly original creations, thus making it likely that one of album songs will be performed in Moscow. Release has been followed with an extensive tour in Russia, covering Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Rostov-na-Donu, Stavropol, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Kazan, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg and Perm. You can watch video report of Russian TV on Patricia's Kremlin performance here. Singer also took part in Zolotoy Gramophone awards ceremony.
Song Download Link : http://rapidshare.com/files/208632416/2009_-_France_-_Patricia_Kaas_-_Et_s_il_fallait_le_faire__Final_version_.mp3
Lyrics:
S'il fallait le faire,
J'arreterais la Terre,
J'eteindrais la lumiere
Que tu restes endormi.
S'il fallait pour te plaire
Lever des vents contraires,
Dans un desert sans vie
Je trouverais la mer...
Et s'il fallait le faire,
J'arreterais la pluie,
Elle fera demi-tour
Le reste de nos vies.
S'il fallait pour te plaire
T'ecouter chaque nuit
Quand tu parles d'amour,
J'en parlerais aussi...
Que tu regardes encore
Dans le fond de mes yeux,
Que tu y vois encore
Le plus grand des grands feux.
Et que ta main se colle
Sur ma peau, ou elle veut.
Un jour si tu t'envoles
Je suivrais, si je peux...
Et s'il fallait le faire,
Je repousserais l'hiver
A grands coups de printemps
Et de longs matins clairs.
S'il fallait pour te plaire
J'arreterais le temps,
Que tous tes mots d'hier
Restent a moi maintenant.
Que je regarde encore
Dans le bleu de tes yeux,
Que tes deux mains encore
Se perdent dans mes cheveux,
Je ferai tout plus grand,
Et si c'est trop ou peu,
J'aurais tort tout le temps
Si c'est ca que tu veux...
Je veux bien tout donner
Si seul'ment tu y crois,
Mon coeur veut bien saigner
Si seul'ment tu le vois,
Jusqu'a n'etre plus rien
Que l'ombre de tes nuits,
Jusqu'a n'etre plus rien
Qu'une ombre qui te suit.
Et s'il fallait le faire...
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