Year : 2018
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 132 mb
Bio:
Beauvoir was born in Chicago to parents of Haitian background. He played drums as a child and switched to bass as a teenager. He was Gary U.S. Bond's musical director at age 14; following this, he sang in the doo wop group The Flamingos. He gained his first music experiences with these groups touring the US performing at Dick Clark revival concerts.He moved to New York City during the punk rock explosion and answered a newspaper ad for a bassist, which led to his joining The Plasmatics for two albums. While with the Plasmatics and subsequently, Beauvoir sported a conspicuous blond mohawk.He left the group after their release Beyond the Valley of 1984 to join Steve Van Zandt's Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul for two albums. Following this, he launched a solo career with the album Drums Along the Mohawk, released in the U.K. on Virgin Records in 1986. That same year, the track "Feel the Heat" was chosen by Sylvester Stallone for his film, Cobra.The song was a hit, charting Top 10 across Europe and Australia and reaching No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100.On the strength of the single, Drums Along the Mohawk was released in the U.S. and peaked at No. 93 on the Billboard 200.Jean Beauvoir's success has always been much greater in the rest of the world than in the US.Beauvoir released several further solo albums since the late 1980s, mostly released in Europe. Since then he has also written, produced for, and performed with acts such as Kiss, John Waite, Ramones, Nona Hendryx, The Pretenders, Deborah Harry, Lionel Richie, Doro and N'SYNC. He has appeared on over 100 albums over the past two decades. He has also fronted the bands Voodoo X and Crown of Thorns, which was originally signed to Interscope Records for a much publicized record breaking deal. Both these hard rock groups have achieved significant success in the rest of the world. Beauvoir has earned a multitude of Platinum and Gold awards for his work in the US and abroad.In addition to his film music work with Sylvester Stallone, his credit list includes the title tracks or theme songs for the movies Pet Semetary from Stephen King's novel, Wes Craven’s blockbuster Shocker, Flawless (with Robert De Niro), School of Rock (with Jack Black), Christmas with the Kranks (with Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd), The Guilty (with Bill Pullman), Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever, Berlin Nights (with Gabriela Tscherniack), RV (with Robin Williams) and Unthinkable (with Samuel Jackson).Beauvoir founded and serves as CEO/President of Voodoo Island Entertainment Group whose divisions included Voodoo Island Records and Voodoo Island Productions. Over the course of his professional career, he has created joint venture partnerships with industry veterans such as Richard Branson, Al Teller, Ted Fields, Jimmy Iovine, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Lou Pearlman. Beauvoir is also the founder and CEO/President of Hot Boy Music and Tigre Noire Music. Beauvoir’s worldwide music catalogue contains over 250 published titles currently administered by Rondor/Universal.For 61⁄2 years, Jean served as CEO/Managing Director of Steven Van Zandt’s media and entertainment company, Renegade Nation, whose operations include terrestrial and Sirius XM Satellite radio programming, live event and television production, record label operations, music licensing, merchandising and an online social networking venture.Beauvoir was responsible for all aspects of Renegade Nation’s initiatives, which included the programming, management of staff, and coordination of two 24/7 Channels on Sirius XM Satellite, “Outlaw Country” and “Little Steven’s Underground Garage”.Negotiation of all agreements with artists, talent agents, managers, record companies, TV networks e.g., ESPN and VH1, retail outlets e.g., Best Buy and FYE, worldwide music distributors, brands/sponsors including Pepsi, AT&T, Dunkin Donuts, Rolling Rock, Budweiser, Hard Rock International, Olympus and others…Beauvoir oversaw all events executed by Renegade in coordination with Steven Van Zandt including, Hard Rock/Underground Garage concerts and pool parties, ESPN and Underground Garage New Year’s Eve in Times Squares NY, Hawaiian Tropic weekly events in Times Square, Honda Grand Prix/Underground Garage in St Petersburg Florida, UG at SXSW, Teen Vogue at the Hard Rock and all UG national tours including the “Rolling Rock and Roll Tour” (Rolling Rock and AT&T).He also negotiated personal agreements for Steven Van Zandt e.g., Lilyhammer, World Of Warcraft (TV commercial), IMG and others.Beauvoir continues to produce, write and lead his group Crown of Thorns. Crown of Thorns re-released their 2008 CD "Faith" on June 9, 2009 here in the US through Lost Cathedral Sony Red.He continues to write and produce for other Artists, his most recent successes are with the Artist "Vivi Jiang" (Fashion Show) #15 Global Pop Charts China April, 2013 and with the SHINEE mini album "Everybody" which was number #1 on multiple charts across ASIA as of October 15, 2013, #5 US iTunes and #2 Billboard World Charts in November 2013.2014 - Beauvoir is currently an Executive Producers of a "Hit" Television show for SBS Discovery Television featuring the award winning comedian "Kristian Valen", he is also recording a new album due out 2015 with Micki Free under the project name Beauvoir/Free and is involved in various other TV and entertainment ventures.Beauvoir serves on the advisory boards of the Naples Film Festival (NIFF) and also AMB, Academy of Music and Business (created by legendary songwriter Andreas Carlson), alongside other legendary writers (Desmond Child, David Foster, Dallas Austin and several other industry luminaries...
Album:
Jean Beauvoir has a CV as long as your arm but if you haven’t heard of him then you’ll surely recognize him. His famous mohawk is as recognizable as Eddie the ‘Ead or Angus Young in his school uniform.Beauvoir has performed with bands such as Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul along with punk legends The Plasmatics as well as fronting his own bands, Crown of Thorns and Voodoo X plus numerous solo projects. He has writing credits with such luminaries as Kiss, John Waite and The Ramones among many others. As if he isn’t busy enough he has also written music for tv and movies including Sylvester Stallone’s Cobra and Stephen King’s Pet Semetary.Having appeared on around 250 albums over his 30-year career it is little wonder it was high time to bring out an album of choice cuts spanning this era.In Jean Beauvoir’s case, this is to be split into two separate releases, each entitled Rock Masterpieces. Rock Masterpieces Vol 1 is slated for release July 6, 2018, via AOR Heaven.Rock Masterpieces Vol 2 will appear sometime early 2019.All the tracks on Rock Masterpieces Vol 1 have been remastered and the album opens in scorching fashion with a Crown of Thorns classic “Faith”. A keyboard intro leads to a walloping riff and we’re off. The tone of the album is well and truly set.Surprisingly, considering the amount of work Beauvoir has released, this compilation is very Crown of Thorns heavy, with “Voodoo Queen” and “Standing on the Corner For Ya” being particular highlights.AOR is Beauvoir’s raison d’etre and he rarely, if at all, deviates from this path.While the tracks on Rock Masterpieces Vol 1 cover Beauvoir’s career from the mid-80’s to mid-90’s there is little discernible difference in the feel of the tracks. Part of me is saying “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” whilst the other side of me is shouting “Where is the variety!!” This is a good selection of solid AOR tracks, but masterpieces? I think I’ll reserve judgment on that one.
Line-Up:
Jean Beauvoir - lead vocals and background vocals, bass, rhythm guitar, drums, keyboards and orchestration (Ex-Voodoo X,Crown of Thorns,The Plasmatics)
Tracklist:
01. Faith
02. Crown Of Thorns
03. Dying For Love
04. Feel The Heat (Cobra soundtrack)
05. Lyin’
06. Heartbeat
07. The Awakening (Shocker – Wes Craven)
08. Missing The Young Days
09. Hike It Uo
10. Secret Jesus
11. Rock Ready (EA/MTV Rock Band Game)
12. The One
13. Voodoo Queen
14. Standing On The Corner For Ya (2017 single version, as performed on The Wendy Williams TV show)
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