Grand Hotel

After 20 years of career, Da Silva signs his 10th album with the same passion and visceral energy as during his first opus released in 2005. Da Silva signs his densest album! The texts are free of all the clichés expected and heard of French pop music, the themes covered navigate between human wickedness and goodness, between the search for absolute love and the loss of men to achieve it. Da Silva acquires a fluidity of writing that he had not managed to maintain until now, a stated desire to be readable.It is a structured setting of electronic and electroacoustic sounds that he has shaped around a solid rhythm section, a harp and a sensitive string trio. The singer-songwriter has rethought his method of creation, his process of writing lyrics so that this album is approached from a completely new angle in the French landscape.At the Grand Hotel, men sleep with their eyes open...BiographyDa Silva was born on April 15, 1976 in Nevers. From the Nivernais punk rock group, the Mad Coakroches, to Mitsu, via the Tambours du Bronx, Punishment Park, and Vénus Coma, from French punk rock to electronic music, the youth of this gifted teenager was a prelude to what the man would become: Da Silva, the chameleon, prolific artist, the author-singer-composer capable of all collaborations and all artistic adventures.With his first label, Tôt ou Tard, he produced 3 solo albums. The 1st in 2005, December in Summer, will go gold and will establish it as the revelation of that year. In 2007, Beautiful Days Ahead was released. He was named a stage revelation artist at the Victoires de la Musique the same year. In 2009, La tendesse des fous was released, with which he performed more than a hundred concerts in one year. This album will be adapted into English by Constance Amiot under the title Once Twice.This production allows him to work alongside and produce titles or albums by Elsa Lunghini (2009), Hélène Ségara (2011), Julie Zenatti (2015), Jenifer (2016), Soprano (2014), Yseult (2014), Claire Denamur ( 2011), among others...In 2011, Da Silva joined the PIAS label. La distance (2011), Villa Rosa (2013) and L’aventure (2017) will be born from this collaboration. Alongside his personal project, Da Silva writes several CD books for children published by Actes Sud: Le Mystère des Couleurs (2006) of which a show for young audiences was created and performed throughout the Avignon off festival in 2019, Le Peuple des Dunes (2007), Billie and the Night Kings (2009), The Dinosaurs of Rock (2013), The Imaginary Flowers (2015). Projects where he invites Coralie Clément, Cali, Marie Drucker and even Françoiz Breut. In 2019, Le Petit Nuage won the Charles Cros Prize for the Young Audience Book and the Audience Prize for the Audiobook La Plume de Paon 2020.In 2019, he joined the At(h)ome stable. That same year the album Goodbye sorrow was released, followed in 2022 by Extract from an imperfect life.In 2022, the singer creates and presents a musical show in the Apocalypse Tapestry gallery at the Château d'Angers. From this experience was born in 2023 the youth CD book L'Abécédaire de la Tapisserie de l'Apocalypse au château d'Angers published by Bayard Musique.Da Silva's career is sprawling: writing for others, releasing records, composing film soundtracks, releasing children's books, creating shows for young audiences: hits, hits, bestsellers, box office... In a greedy society where hearts are only attached to what they see on phones, where ephemeral tastes and passions are taken by force, its solid and discreet, old-fashioned success is a trick. genius.Defender of culture, Da Silva fights for youth and the disabled public, so that the creations of the mind are accessible to all, case by case, city by city, village by village, and so that our sky is more pupil. With an arsenal of extraordinary and everyday ideas, he stands up to everything that militates against knowledge. Artistic workshops and cultural activities in high schools, schools, hospitals, prisons, territories, concerts in institutions, in a hairdressing salon, a pizzeria, in the middle of the vineyards... He packs his bags on a daring, it is always innovation that captivates this wanderer. For culture, no banishes and no expellees with Da Silva.The singer-songwriter is also a painter. Those who see him paint speak of his canvases as a face offered to the hands of the barber with a tense back, skilled with a knife, agile with a brush. On the side of the canvas, the painter melts his dreams and fantasies of cats, women, nature, life. In soliloquy he describes, declares, asserts, converses with the absolute, and unloads his secrets onto the white surface. Da Silva exhibits his works in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Portugal.Line-up Da SilvaSylvie Hoarau chant, choeurs)Philippe Almosnino bass, guitareRomain Viallon drumsDavid Euverte KeyboardsTomoko Katsura violinCécile Grenier altoFrançois Pernel harp