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Portrait of the musician Bachar Mar-Khalife
"When I go into the studio, I go without any preconceived plan; I want to be anti-intellectual, organic, spontaneous, instinctive", says Bachar Mar-Khalife. This unfettered approach to music helps explain the ease with which he moves between so many musical genres. It is something he inherited from his father Marcel, a universally creative artist in his own right, who has not only encouraged restoration of the oud, but is also a mediator between the worlds of classical, jazz and traditional music. "He taught me a lot about things beyond the purely musical," admits the son. "He never allowed himself to be swayed by public opinion, always had the courage of his own convictions and an incredible devotion to his work."
At the age of six, Bachar and his parents were forced to flee the civil war in Lebanon, ending up in Paris. It was a time when, along with his mother's versions of the songs of popular Lebanese singers such as Fairuz, Asmahan and Sabah, he also became aware of the sounds of the first wave of French hip-hop, the chansons of Brassens and Ferre and the band Nirvana. The young Bachar was a voracious listener, and even as he was studying piano and percussion at the conservatory, influences as diverse as Michael Jackson's albu
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Bachar Mar-Khalifé بــشــار مــارســيــل خــلـيــفــة
Bachar Mar-Khalifé is a French Lebanese singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist born in the town of Beyrouth in 1983, 13 February.
He is the son of the legendary Eastern-Lute player Marcel Khalifé and of the singer Yolla Khalifé, Brother of Rami Khalifé (a member of the band Aufgang).
He grew up listening to the voice and Lebanese compositions of his father . After training with Abd Al Rahman El Bacha, he went on to the Boulogne Conservatoire, where he gradually gave form to his singular approach to piano and percussions, alongside fellow students Rami Khalifé of course (his brother, piano), but also Aymeric Westrich (drums, synths) and Alexander Angelov (bass, backing vocals), who all took part in the elaboration of his first album in 2010 titled " Oil Slick ".
During his musical career worked with conductors Lorin Maazel, James Gaffigan as well as with the Orchestre national de France and the Ensemble intercontemporain. He has collaborated on many projects that fuse jazz, world music, electronic and hip-hop with artists as diverse as Bojan Z, Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano, Murcof or Kery James.
He’s composed soundtracks for various films such as Layla Fourie, directed by Pia Marais an