THE TEAM
YANN LAMBALLEE
LEAD & HARMONY VOCALS | ELECTRIC GUITARS
Yann Lamballée, born June 8, 1978, has been a songwriter for 20 years.
He started playing guitar for fun but very quickly went into writing. After trying several jobs that did not suit him, he decided to make music his profession and joined The IMFP, jazz school in Salon de Provence, in which he stayed 3 years. At the same time, he plays in bars, clubs and pubs in the region as a singer with Red Led as well as guitarist / singer in several bands (Wish You Well & Gill Gabriel) with which he begins his career on stage, becomes professional and has come a long way!
He spent his free time composing, alone or with the help of his relatives, his musical friends, and set up his first compos project in 2001 under the name of Yann S’entoure with which he began to play on Marseilles' stages.
For years, Yann has set up several compos projects and produced several albums: "Custom" (6 tracks solo album), "Little Short Stories" (with his group The Novelties which is the confirmation of his desire to work in a group and not no longer be alone to compose, to share ideas and learn from others).
He decided to go on Corsican roads with an artist with whom he shared the stage (while also taking care of the technical part) and discovered a totally different musical universe!
In February 2013, watching the film Sound City (directed by Dave GROHL whose career he admired and the incredible proliferation of ideas), he decided to embark on a major project ... The concept? bring together some of the musicians he has met for 20 years, bring them together, mix styles, cultures and ideas around the composition ... "Sharing The Road-STR" was born !! Two weeks in an isolated house in the heart of the Ardèche, completely refurbished as a recording studio, far from Marseille in another atmosphere to create, together, a new album! This fully filmed adventure is the starting point for a concert for the benefit of UNICEF and GLOBAL DIGNITY at the Moulin in Marseille on December 5, 2014 !! 25 musicians, an album, a film, a concert!
MANUEL JULVEZ
LEAD & HARMONY VOCALS | ACOUSTIC GUITARS | BANJO | KEYBOARD
Manuel Julvez entered the conservatory at the age of 9 years to learn guitar, then, in the early 90s, discovers Country Music, which he will become one of the leading French experts in the matter.
Composition plays a central role in the work of Manuel, constantly looking for new tunes (he is the main composer of Roving Seats). Meanwhile, self-taught, he learned other instruments (keyboard, Dobro, Banjo, bass ...). From the encounter with Ange Amadei, in 2007, was born an immediate friendship, strong and based on a common passion: the Music; the desire to work together will not leave them anymore…
In 2011, his entry into the SACEM as a songwriter was the recognition for many years to compose, what enabled him to forge a musical identity, his own style… during the same year, he made his second beautiful artistic and human encounter: Jean-Michel PEYROT.
In 2014, Manuel created The Roving Seats, band of Americana & Country Music with which he performed on the most famous stages in France (Festival Country Rendez-Vous, American Journeys...) & in Europe.
In 2016, he co-created The Lady's Country Angels (with almost the same team) with Candice PARISE! The Band played on the main stages in France and Switzerland for this style of Music, among them the famous Festival Moz'aïque in Le Havre.
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Manuel never stops songwriting and new original songs always emerged. During the lockdown in 2020, Manuel decided to do some videos with Yann LAMBALLEE (his partner in Ad Vitam, a project of French Music covers) but in collaboration with other artists. Those collaborations were about new original songs composed by Yann and Manuel and, thanks to internet, recorded by each artists at home. After the success of those videos on Facebook, Manuel & Yann decided to launch a new project together with three of those artists: THE SUNNY GLADES were born!
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After the EP, released in April 2021, the 5 artists plan to perform on stage during concerts and festivals to launch definitely this wonderful journey!
JEROME MOURIEZ
DRUMS | PERCUSSIONS
The journey of Jerôme Mouriez is quite atypical because the battery did not really attract him at the start. He started the instrument after studying the guitar for 2 years. By chance, one day, when putting himself behind a drum during a rehearsal, the click occurs, the sound, the striking, the complexity of this instrument touches him, the coordination of the limbs very quickly becomes natural to him.
With a great ear for other musicians, he quickly became a professional at the age of 18 and he followed groups, rock, funk, then jazz rock.
Driven by a thirst for learning but above all by a thirst for understanding music, Jérôme follows a year of training at the IMFP where his passion for jazz is revealed to him.
After having played in different orchestras, piano bars and pop rock groups, he then decides to deepen and further study the study of music and sound, for this he integrates by audition the prestigious “Center des Musiques” by Didier Lockwood in Dammarie-les-Lys to follow a 2-year course from which he will graduate.
Meetings with renowned drummers like André Charlier, Frank Agulhon, Stéphane Galland and Mokhtar Samba will allow him to develop his game, his striking and his musicality.
Since then, recognized and in great demand, he has played in many bands, such as Marc Mary's Memory Big Band. He collaborates for many projects with Cyril Benhamou, Ilyès finalist of the new star 2007 or the Benjamin Faugloire Project and a new "BIM" project with the trombonist bastien ballaz.
All these projects allow him to tour in France and abroad (Germany, Italy, Belgium, United States, Ukraine, Russia, China, Cyprus, New York), on the most beautiful stages and the biggest festivals, as well as ad hoc collaborations with renowned musicians such as Amos Hoffman (Avishai Cohen) or Mark Guiliana (Brad Mehldau, David Bowie).
CAMILLE PAPAIN
VIOLIN | MANDOLIN | BACKGROUND VOCALS
Camille Papain is a French composer and instrumentalist.
Born in the south of France, she has been addicted to music since early childhood. She began playing the violin when she was two and a half years old. Familiar to different kinds of music, she particularly enjoys the complex artistic creations of musicians such as Thom Yorke or Bjork. Wether it is Classical, rock or electronic, music allows her to take a rest from reality and magnify it.
Although her main instrument is the violin, she can also play the piano and some guitar, mandolin and accordion. She recently took pleasure playing the viola she borrowed from her brother who had left it aside.
Camille Papain plays both classical and electric violin she regards as two different instruments.
Although she spends time recording in the studio, she is really keen on stage performances. She collaborates with many artists. She plays in different groups, has recorded all the strings sessions in Oslo Swan, January son’s and NNYLS’s albums.
She has performed in concert halls, weddings and even country festivals with GG Gibson. She participated in several musicals as a musician.
In 2019, she was musically involved in a short film and recorded for an independent album in Paris where she also joined a big hip-hop project.
Since 2016, she joined Beemoov as a freelance composer, and created all the musical themes for several visual novel games such as Le secret d’Henri, Eldarya, Moonlight lovers, Le secret d’Henri 2. These games are played by millions of people which means that Camille’s music becomes international and is deeply enjoyed all over the world...
DENIS FRANGULIAN
BASS | DOUBLE BASS | BACKGROUND VOCALS
Denis Frangulian started playing electric bass at the age of 16, and played in various rock and funk bands before becoming interested in jazz and its different currents.
He then met Jérôme Mouriez with whom he shared long sessions of bass / drums. Together, they join the Didier Lockwood Music Center (CMDL), in Dammarie-les-Lys, in the Paris region, for a two-year course rich in music and meetings.
The one with Benjamin Faugloire gave birth to the Benjamin Faugloire Project in 2006.
Denis Frangulian records the first album of this trio on electric bass then definitively adopts the double bass from the second opus, in 2012.
He performs at the Duc des Lombards, in Paris, on the stage of the Jazz festival of the five continents of Marseille and during tours in France, Germany and Ukraine. With the Sharing the Road project and a new "BIM" project with the trombonist bastien ballaz, the composition begins to take a bigger place in his career.
In 2014, he responded to an order from Mécènes du Sud, a collective for which he composed two creations and provided double bass improvisation on the theme of the paper industry.