Gildas Arzel

Gildas Arzel (born 21 January 1961) is a French singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Alsace. In addition to his solo career, he has been in musical formations such as the duo Die Form, with Erick Benzi; the group Canada (with Benzi, Jacques Veneruso, and Gwenn Arzel); and since 2007, El Club, with Benzi, Michael Jones, and Christian Seguret (fr).^[1]

Arzel began his solo career playing a mix of Irish and Scottish folk, blues, rock, Cajun, Celtic, and ethnic music. He has written a number of songs for and collaborated with Celine Dion, Johnny Hallyday, Roch Voisine, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks, Michael Jones, Maurane, Nanette Workman, Florent Pagny, Yannick Noah, France D'Amour, J.A.H.O., and others.

Discography

Solo

• Les gens du voyage (1991)
• Entrer dans la danse (1994)
• Gildas Arzel (1997)
• Autour de nous (2001)
• Greneville (2015)

Other work

with Canada (Gildas Arzel, Gween Arzel, Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso)

• Sur les traces (1988)

with Gabriel Yacoub

• Quatre (1994)

with Céline Dion (Gildas Arzel, Erick Benzi, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jacques Veneruso)

• 1 fille & 4 types (2003)

with El Club (Gildas Arzel, Erick Benzi, Michael Jones, Christian Seguret)

• Plus fort que ça (2007)

References