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Marie Sauvet
Born(1953-02-05)5 February 1953
Meudon, France
GenresCeltic music, Breton Music
Occupations
  • Singer
  • musician
SpouseGabriel Yacoub

Marie Sauvet (born 5 February 1953) is a French musician. She was a founder and lead performer, singing and playing several instruments, of the band Malicorne from its formation in 1973, as a pioneer of the revival of traditional music in contemporary formats.[1] She is also known as Marie Yacoub and Marie de Malicorne

Life and career

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Sauvet was born in Meudon on 5 February 1953.[2] She met Gabriel Yacoub, who had been interested first in American folk music of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie[1] and real American traditional music but became interested in traditional French music.[3]

Before founding Malicorne, she and Gabriel Yacoub recorded the experimental album Pierre de Grenoble in 1973.[4][5][6] This was originally intended to be the name of the group. It included contributions from Breton guitarist-singer Dan Ar Braz.[7] In 1973 they co-founded Malicorne, to revive traditional French music[3] and combined modern instruments, including guitar, electric guitar and bass guitar, with traditional instruments such as bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy and krumhorns.[1][5] Marie played electric dulcimer, bouzouki and hurdy-gurdy, while Gabriel played guitars, mandolin, Epinette des Vosges and banjo. They made a number of successful albums, of which the 1976 Almanach was regarded as the most popular.[5]

After disbanding for the first time, at the end of 1981, Malicorne reformed in different configurations in 1984, in 1986 and again from 1987 to 1989.[4] The group played in its original line-up for a single concert on 15 July 2010, in La Rochelle.[5] In August 2017, a concert in Paimpol, as part of the Festival du chant de marin de Paimpol [fr] (Shanty Festival), was the band's last appearance.[4][6]

Discography

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Sauvet made many recordings, some as Marie Yakoub, many with Gabriel Yacoub (before, during and after Malicorne), as lead singer and musician with Malicorne.

Gabriel and Marie Yacoub

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Malicorne

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see also Malicorne discography

References

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  1. ^ a b c Harris, Craig. "Gabriel Yacoub". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  2. ^ Choutet, Arnaud (2016). Malicorne (in French). Marseille: Le Mot et le Reste [fr]. p. 19. ISBN 978-2-36-054210-9.
  3. ^ a b Moll, Michael (June 2000). "French Folk cooking slowly". FolkWorld. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  4. ^ a b c Peigné, Thierry (12 August 2017). "Festival Paimpol: le groupe Malicorne tire sa révérence" [Paimpol Festival: the Malicorne group bows out]. france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr (in French). Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Gabriel Yacoub, fondateur du groupe de folk Malicorne, est décédé à 72 ans" [Gabriel Yacoub, founder of folk group Malicorne, has died at 72]. Le Figaro (in French). AFP. 22 January 2025. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  6. ^ a b Postic, Laurence (22 January 2025). "Mort de Gabriel Yacoub. De ses débuts à son dernier concert à Paimpol, ce que le fondateur de Malicorne a donné à la Bretagne" [Death of Gabriel Yacoub. From his beginnings to his last concert in Paimpol, what the founder of Malicorne gave to Brittany]. france3 (in French). Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Pierre De Grenoble (1973)". Forces parallèles (in French). 20 February 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Malicorne". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Malicorne 2". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  10. ^ "Almanach". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  11. ^ "Malicorne IV". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  12. ^ "Quintessence". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
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