Biography
French musician, conductor and arranger Paul Moria is known worldwide. His love for music made it possible to combine different directions in creativity, creating a unique atmosphere and generating touching emotions among the public.Childhood and youth
Paul Moria was born in France, in Marseille, March 4, 1925. The first acquaintance with the musical instrument occurred when the baby was three years old. Parents noticed how the boy enthusiastically presses the piano keys, making melodic sounds. Paul tried to reproduce the composition that recently heard on the radio.
Noticing the talent of his son, his father began to promote his development. So the passion for the game on the piano became a serious occupation, to which Paul was responsible and love.
The first teacher was father. The postal servant Moria-Sr. was a lover of musical instruments, played guitar, piano and harp. Pedagogical talent men helped to instill a field desire to learn. Classes took place in the game form, so the boy easily learned the musical adhesions. Six years later, Paul got acquainted with the world of classical and pop music. For several months, the boy even performed on the scene variety.
In 10 years, the young musician demonstrated sufficient skills to enroll in the conservatory of Marseille. Training ended four years after receiving a diploma with honors. At the age of 14, the young man dreamed of becoming a professional in his business. Alone could prevent this: sympathy for jazz. Accidentally having heard a concert in a student jazz club, Paul realized that he had discovered something new. At this moment, the fate of the musician changed the vector.
Paul Moria decided to become a member of the jazz orchestra, but faced a problem in the form of a lack of sufficient education. Moria's plans had a trip to Paris, training in the metropolitan conservatory and receiving the necessary skills. But the war happened. The city occupied. The young man remained in Safe Marseille.
Music
Starting a career from the classical direction, at 17, Paul Moria was the creator of his first orchestra. He consisted of adult musicians, some of them were suitable young man in fathers. The team gained fans in French Music Halls and Kabare, speaking during the Second World War. The orchestra had a distinctive style in which the symbiosis of classical and jazz music was viewed. The team collapsed in 1957, and Moria went to Paris.
In the capital, he found the job with a diplomator and an arguer. The musician concluded a contract with the record company Barclay, who collaborated with Charlay Aznavur, Dalida, Maurice Chevalé and other performers. The first hit Paul Moria was released in 1962, working in a duet with a composer and a conductor Frank Pursel. They became a composition called "Chariot".
In the seventies, Moria was interested in working in cinema and together with the composer Rimon Lefevrom created musical compositions for the "gendarme from Saint-Tropez" and "Gendarme in New York". Then the creation was followed with Mirey Mathieu and Andre Pascal. The song "MON CRADO", written for the singer, became a hit. In total, Paul Moriat wrote 50 songs.
The creative biography of Moriat's fields was not so cloudless, as it may seem. By 40 years old, the musician continued to dream of his own orchestra. The fact is that at the time there were popular bits, and the orchestras moved to the background.
Small musical teams quickly replaced each other, and it seemed that they had a new trend of the era. Moria has seen his further development in the career of the conductor. In 1965, he collected an orchestra who had fulfilled unusual spiritual music. Tickets for concerts of the team of the Moriat field sold back long.
The public, saturated with fashion trends, warmly adopted an orchestra under the leadership of a perfectionist conductor with diverse music preferences. The team performed jazz, pop compositions, instrumental versions of popular compositions and classical music. The orchestra repertoire had its own compositions of Moria, pop music and even folk melodies.
In 1968, the orchestral arrangement of the "Love Is Blue" composition, which sounded at the Eurovision Music Competition in 1967, flew to the tops of the US Charts and turned out to be famous in different countries of the world. Moriaa received widespread recognition. His love met on tour concerts in America, Canada, Brazil, South Korea and the USSR. Every year, only in Japan, Moria's Orchestra performed 50 times.
Orchestra Moria was considered international. Musicians were often replaced in it. The team united specialists who played different tools. According to the conductor, they differed to affiliate to one or another nationality. So, Mexico's representatives played on the pipes, and Brazilians on the guitars. Speaking of Soviet performers, Moria dreamed of inviting violinists and cellists to cooperate.
In 1997, Paul Moria was recorded the last album and called him "Romantic". The musician handed over the management of the orchestra student to live Gambayus in 2000. At that time, Gambius had a decent track record from the world tour as part of the orchestra, cooperation with Dalida and a multitude of arrangements. In 2005, the team has passed under the management of Jean-Jacques Justafre.
Personal life
Music has become an integral part of the life of Moria field. His schedule was planned for months ahead, assuming work at home and tour. The musicians have managed to learn new compositions and write them down, and the conductor is inconsporated.
Moria was happy in love. His wife Iren shared her husband's worldview. There were no children in the family, but it was not grieving Moria. The spouse accompanied the conductor in touring tours and travels.
The history of love family Moria is romantic: the couple was inseparable. It was accounted for by the side of intrigue, suspicion of infidelity, random novels. Paul believed that the cause of a successful union was that beloved was characterized by characters. Iren worked as a teacher and loved this profession, but at the request of her husband left school and accompanied him everywhere. Career Fields went to the fore.
Irene Moria was buried the spouse in 2006. She kept silence without lighting their experiences in the press about the loss of his beloved husband.
Death
The conductor died in the south of France, in the provincial city of Perpignan. He did not live 4 months to 82 years. The cause of death was leukemia. The musician suffered from illness, and she took over. He was buried on the cemetery in the quiet Perpignan.
In 2010, Irene Moria was made in the press with a statement that the "Orchestra of the Moria field" no longer exists and the teams trying on this name are impostors. Moria's immortal compositions today can be heard in the record and performed by other musical groups.
Music fields of Moria still attracts new fans. Albums are still bought. The most in demand from them plates called: "Memories of Russia", "Rhytm and Blues", "A Taste of Paul Mauriat". The Internet has posted photos and clips from Moria's speeches and his musical team.
In Russia, the musical compositions of the arranger and the conductor were remembered on the "Kinopanoram" and "in the world of animals", the weather forecast and the Soviet cartoon "Well, wait!".
Work
- 1967 - "Puppet On A String"
- 1968 - "L'Amour Est Bleu"
- 1968 - "LOVE IN EVERY ROOM"
- 1968 - "San Francisco"
- 1969 - "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
- 1969 - "Hey Jude"
- 1970 - "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus"
- 1970 - "Gone Is Love"
- 1972 - "APRES TOI (Come What May)"
- 1972 - "Taka Takata"