Pink Martini has twelve instrumentalists (and sometimes travels with string sections), and performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with over 30 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004 & 2008; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in NYC; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; and the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia.
Lauderdale met China Forbes, Pink Martini’s lead vocalist, at Harvard. He was studying history and literature while she was studying English literature and painting. Late at night, they would break into the lower common room in their college dormitory and sing arias by Puccini and Verdi – and the occasional campy Barbra Streisand cover –thus sealing their creative collaboration. Three years after graduating, Lauderdale called Forbes who was living in New York City, where she’d been writing songs and playing guitar in her own folk-rock project, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together for the band. Their first song “Sympathique”– with the chorus “Je ne veux pas travailler” (”I don’t want to work”) – became an overnight sensation in France, and was even nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards. Forbes, though fluent only in English, sings in 15 different languages.
Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000.
In October 2004, the group released its second album, Hang on Little Tomato.
In May 2007, it released its third album, Hey Eugene!.
A fourth studio album, Splendor in the Grass, followed on October 27, 2009.
Sympathique, Hang on Little Tomato and Hey Eugene! have all gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey; collectively, Pink Martini's records have sold more than two million copies worldwide.
On New Year's Eve 2005, Pink Martini performed live at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. This performance was aired live on National Public Radio's Toast of the Nation, and in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting was recorded for a live DVD and later broadcast on US public broadcasting and French television.[citation needed] The DVD has been rereleased to retail as Discover the World: Live in Concert, featuring not only the full concert, but several vignettes and a short documentary of the band's history.
The band has collaborated and performed with Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Henri Salvador, Jane Powell, Chavela Vargas, Georges Moustaki, Michael Feinstein, DJ Dimitri from Paris, clarinetist and conductor Norman Leyden, Hiroshi Wada, DJ Johnny Dynell and several drag queens from New York City, among others. On June 1, 2007, the band appeared on the long-running BBC Two Later with Jools Holland TV music program. On June 14, 2007, Pink Martini performed on Late Show with David Letterman, performing "Hey Eugene".
Pink Martini played Walt Disney Concert Hall on New Year's Eve for the first two years it was open (2003/4 and 2004/5). They returned to play NYE there again in 2008/9.
In May 2009, the band recorded three concerts with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Carlos Kalmar for the band’s fifth album … a symphonic record which is slated for a 2011 release.
Pink Martini songs appear in such films as In the Cut, Nurse Betty, Josie and the Pussycats, Tortilla Soup, Shanghai Kiss, Mary and Max, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and have been used on television shows such as Dead Like Me, The Sopranos and The West Wing, among others.[citation needed] Their song "Una notte a Napoli" is an integral part of the Italian movie Mine Vaganti (2010), by the Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek. The song "No Hay Problema" is included as background/setup music for Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and was also used as the background/setup music for an early build of Windows Longhorn, now known as Windows Vista.[citation needed]
In February 2011, the group's lead singer, China Forbes, recorded a video greeting to the European Space Agency's Italian astronaut, Paolo Nespoli, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri, on board the International Space Station. The astronauts were preparing to oversee the docking of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo vessel, Johannes Kepler, which took place at 17:08 CET on 24 February. The greeting was set to the sound track of Dosvedanya Mio Bombino - one of Pink Martini's signature songs - and was mixed with footage of the actual docking.
In November 2011, they played at the Balboa Theater with the Bonita Vista High School band, Club Blue.
Dansez-vous
Pink Martini Lyrics
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Qui dirige ma vie entière
Je peux vous donner un peu de mon coeur
Mais avant il faut que vous dansiez
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Si vous ne dansez pas pour moi
Comment puis-je savoir qui vous êtes
Si vous ne dansez pas avec moi
Comment puis-je savoir ce que nous serions
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Que ferez-vous quand je bouge là
Que ferez-vous quand je bouge ici
Où irez vous quand je fais un pas
En arrière ou en avant
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
Dansons ensemble, nous ne faisons qu'un
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
The song Dansez-vous by Pink Martini is an upbeat, French-language track with lyrics that explore the significance of dance as a means to connect with people and learn about their true selves. The song begins with the singer explaining that they have a huge heart that directs their entire life, and they're willing to give a piece of it to others, but only after they dance. The repetition of "Dansez-vous" throughout the song emphasizes the importance of dancing and celebrates the unity it creates.
The lyrics encourage the listener to dance with the singer, emphasizing that without dancing, the singer cannot know who they really are or what kind of connection they could have. The second verse continues along this theme, explaining that movement is a way to figure out how people fit together: "What will you do when I move here? What will you do when I move there? Where will you go when I take one step backwards or forwards?" The song ends on a note of unity, with the singer urging everyone to dance together as one, in rhythm.
Overall, the lyrics of Dansez-vous celebrate the importance of dance as a way to connect with people and their inner selves, encouraging the listener to let go of any reservations and just dance along.
Line by Line Meaning
J'ai un coeur énorme
I have a huge heart that dictates my whole life
Qui dirige ma vie entière
That directs my entire life
Je peux vous donner un peu de mon coeur
I can give you a bit of my heart
Mais avant il faut que vous dansiez
But first, you must dance
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dance, dance, dance
Si vous ne dansez pas pour moi
If you don't dance for me
Comment puis-je savoir qui vous êtes
How can I know who you are?
Si vous ne dansez pas avec moi
If you don't dance with me
Comment puis-je savoir ce que nous serions
How can I know what we could be?
Que ferez-vous quand je bouge là
What will you do when I move here?
Que ferez-vous quand je bouge ici
What will you do when I move there?
Où irez vous quand je fais un pas
Where will you go when I take a step
En arrière ou en avant
Backwards or forwards?
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
Let's dance together in rhythm, we become one
Dansons ensemble, nous ne faisons qu'un
Let's dance together, we become one
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
Let's dance together in rhythm, we become one
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: China Forbes, Robert Taylor
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@diannenottke3763
Mixtape classic
Who needs karaoke when you got Pink Martini on your mixtape ❤️❤️😘🙏🏼😎🙏🏼😘❤️❤️
@kellybindickou5395
quelle belle ballade pour danser la rumba.
Avis aux amateurs de la bonne musique
@lamsior
What a band !!!
@alyx2408
Dansez vous !
@hellochannel9780
Just listen to the live version at their show " Pink Martini Live in Portland 2006! Zap to 57:47 and you'll get the song. Much better rendition.
@ryliesmith4697
J'ai un coeur énorme
Qui dirige ma vie entière
Je peux vous donner un peu de mon coeur
Mais avant il faut que vous dansiez
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Si vous ne dansez pas pour moi
Comment puis-je savoir qui vous êtes
Si vous ne dansez pas avec moi
Comment puis-je savoir ce que nous serions
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Dansez dansez dansez-vous
Que ferez-vous quand je bouge là
Que ferez-vous quand je bouge ici
Où irez vous quand je fais un pas
En arrière ou en avant
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
Dansons ensemble, nous ne faisons qu'un
Dansons ensemble en rythme, nous ne faisons qu'un
@kvngjamalvii6653
Good looks helped me pass french