Malicorne's Gabriel & Marie Yacoub
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Topic: Malicorne's Gabriel & Marie Yacoub
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Subject: Malicorne's Gabriel & Marie Yacoub
Date Posted: May 16 2023 at 13:34
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Anybody here French (or fluent enough in French) that can figure out for me whether or not founding members of the French folk band Malicorne, Gabriel Yacoub and Marie Yacoub, were brother and sister or husband and wife? I'm suspicious of anyone who declares one way or another without sounding or feeling definitive. If married, did they divorce--when and why? with or without offspring (children)? ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 16 2023 at 15:19
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http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/marie_sauvet" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/marie_sauvet  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 16 2023 at 16:09
Thanks, Hugues. I've seen this. There are enough references out there to question the veracity of this--places where they're called "brother and sister". Plus, the fact that they both got their professional start working with Alan Stivell leads suspicion to the possibility that they might have come to Alan together, as siblings--though it is completely possible that they came to the band already married. Gabriel was only 18 or, at the most, 19 when he was invited to join Alan's tour. Discogs only mentions them as "French folk duo." Wikapedia never distinguishes their blood ties. OK! Never mind! I finally found a definitive reference on the French version of Wikipédia: Marie was born "Marie Sauvet" in 1953 in Meudon (just east of Versailles) and "Elle a mariée à Gabriel Yacoub" which means the marriage has ended--apparently somewhere between 1976 and 1982. She continued to pursue a career in music from 1982 to 2008 as Marie Sauvet before doing some reunion gigs and concerts with Gabriel and Dan starting in 2004. Thanks anyways! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: May 22 2023 at 17:16
| BROTHER AND SISTER |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 15:55
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicorne_%28band%29" rel="nofollow - This also confirms they are brother and sister: "Malicorne are a French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music" rel="nofollow - folk and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_rock" rel="nofollow - folk rock band formed in September 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicorne_%28band%29#cite_note-En_Public_CD_booklet-2" rel="nofollow - [1] by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Yacoub" rel="nofollow - Gabriel Yacoub , Marie Yacoub (now Marie Sauvet)..." ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 02:21
 But if you do a little more research, you will see she was born Sauvet and if she has recuperated her name in civil life after the divorce from Yacoub (it's not an obligation in France or Belgium >> see Stella Vander's case) - it's probably because Yacoub is very Jewish-sounding (a deformation of Jacob) as Gabriel's dad was from Lebanon, I understand. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Sauvet" rel="nofollow - Marie Sauvet — Wikipédia (wikipedia.org) And from Gabriel's wiki page 1973 : l'expérimentation avec Pierre de Grenoble[ https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gabriel_Yacoub&veaction=edit§ion=5" rel="nofollow - modifier | https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gabriel_Yacoub&action=edit§ion=5" rel="nofollow - modifier le code ]S'entourant de musiciens de talents (dont https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ar_Braz" rel="nofollow - Dan Ar Braz ), Gabriel Yacoub et son épouse d'alors https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Sauvet" rel="nofollow - Marie Sauvet enregistrent au printemps 1973 l'album expérimental https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Grenoble_%28album%29" rel="nofollow - Pierre de Grenoble par lequel le couple revisite le répertoire traditionnel https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Yacoub#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow - 7 . Sorti en octobre 1973, le succès immédiat et inattendu de ce « coup d'essai » lance un renouveau des musiques traditionnelles en France https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Yacoub#cite_note-Trad_Mag_144_G&MdM-2" rel="nofollow - 2 , https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Yacoub#cite_note-8" rel="nofollow - 8 . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 04:09
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People who shout are often wrong... Maybe, in order to avoid more confusion, we should add that in France it was - and still is - not allowed between siblings to get married.  ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 04:26
Didn't your  president marry his mother??  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 04:34
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Hehehe... We're looking into that. Rumours are that... oh well, you know...  (and, he's not my president) ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 06:46
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^^ LOVE the neighborly banter, boys! Superbe!
------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 06:53
Well, just north of you, the (not just ours, but throughout Europe) royals have been in-breeding for centuries.  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |