Back over to Paris this evening for a very-very-Private concert by the French group Superbus, recorded at the Ferber Studios on March 4th of this year.
French rock band Superbus were formed in 1999 by Jennifer Ayache upon her return from a seven-year stay in the U.S. Michel Giovannetti and François Even co-founded the original lineup, with Patrice Focone and Guillaume Roussé later added to the roster. Inspired by both the sound and visual iconography of pre-Beatles rock & roll, the group took its name when Ayache saw the word “superbus,” meaning proud and superior, in a Latin dictionary. In the spring of 2002 Superbus issued their debut LP, Aéromusical, and while the record entered the lower reaches of the French charts, its 2004 follow-up, Pop’n’Gum, proved to be their commercial breakthrough.
After three months of touring during summer 2010, the band announced a short break, during which each member would work on solo projects. In August 2011, the band’s lead guitarist, Patrice Focone, announced they would begin work on new material together in early September. In April 2012, Jenn announced the band is finalizing the mixing of their new album and will go on tour later in 2012. They premiered a new single in June entitled “All Alone” and released a music video for it shortly after with a follow-up single entitled “A la chaine”. Yet a third single “Whisper” featured Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi. A music video for the single was released on Halloween 2012. In early November, 2012, the band began to embark on their Sunset Tour from late 2012 to summer 2013 to promote their album Sunset.
The lead vocalist Jennifer Ayache, also known as Jenn Ayache was born in Cannes on 9 November 1983. She is the daughter of Jean-Pierre Ayache and Chantal Lauby, the latter a member of the comedy group Les Nuls. Vocalist Jenn Ayache is also a multi-instrumentalist playing the drums, guitar and piano.
She met guitarist Michel Giovannetti co-founding the band in October 1999. A successful songwriter, she has written songs for a number of artists including “Comment faire” for David Hallyday and for musical comedies Scooby-Doo et les Pirates Fantômes (2009) in the song “Aero Toto” and for Kamel Ouali’s musical Dracula – L’amour plus fort que la mort (2010) in the song “1, 2, 3” performed by Anaïs Delva, and the debut single from the play, plus “Encore” and “Appelle le docteur”. She also wrote the play’s She was in album Satellite in 2004 under the pseudonyme Marie Janin and sang with Marc Lavoine the song “Désolé”. She offered the song “Tu te fous de nous” originally titled “Dansez” to Christophe Willem for the album Caféine in 2009. In January 2010, she was part of the charity song “Un Geste pour Haïti chérie”. She has been in the audiovisual production La cité de la peur (1994), and in a TV film Telle mère telle fille (1998) playing the role of Rebecca.
In October 2014, she released her solo album +001 that charted in France and Belgium.
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