From
memory and marginalia
From
March to December 2003 : first times on the radio, with
"Alien Mother" on Radio G (Angers)
March
2004 : launch of " Halexander Songs " album
(which includes "Alien Mother", "Brasillach 1945);
the newspaper Ouest France writes about him; the academic Robert
Martin studies the songs "Brasillach 1945" and " La
fin de l'Apocalypse"
September
2004 : launch of the 3 songs- CD "L'Ombre mauve";
creation of the website jannhalexander.free.fr
2005:
first shows at the cabaret "L'Autrement Café", Angers.
Launch of the 5 songs- CD "L'Amant de Maman" in November.
The review Préférences Mag writes 4 pages about him
March
2006 : launch of the 6 songs- CD, "La Confession du
Mulâtre"(which includes "Le Mulâtre", "A
table", "Déclaration d'amour à un vampire",
"J'Aimerais J'Aimerais"
2006,
May the 23rd : Jann Halexander on stage with Aurélien
Merle at the Lagerhall, in Osnabrück, Germany.
2006,
June the 16th : launch of the short movie "Statross le
Magnifique" DVD, by Rémi Lange, in which he acts Baron
Statross Reichmann. He is also the author of the movie main title
September
2006 : the dancing-bar L'Imanol organizes a photographs
exhibition about Jann Halexander, in Angers
2006,
October the 20th : Jann Halexander is on stage at the
mythic Sentier des Halles, in Paris
2006,
December the 20th : Jann Halexander is on stage at the
central square of Mouscron, in Belgium, for Christmas celebrations
(guest by the Mayor)
2007,
July the 20th : launch of the short movie "J'Aimerais
J'Aimerais" DVD, by and with Jann Halexander (he is also the
author of the movie main title). He is on stage for the Universités
Euroméditerrannéennes des Homosexualités (the year before, it was
the singer Nicolas Bacchus). He participates in a program TV with
Karine Lemarchand, on France 5
2008 :
during January, he acts as the vampire Pretorius Malan in the
monologue " Confessions d'un VVampire Sud- Africain" that
he wrote, at the Musée des Vampires, near Paris
2008,
February the 20th : launch of the movie "Occident"
DVD, by and with Jann Halexander (he is also the author of the movie
main title). Jann Halexander begins to be famous out of France, in
Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy, England, but also
Canada, Usa, Argentina, South Africa, and Gabon (his native
country), thanks to his movies. He participates in the TV program
"Zoom Afrique", on France O
2008,
March the 5th : launch of the CD "Le Marginal",
which includes "O bel Anjou", Mathilde et son pianiste"(
lyrics written by Anne-Cécile Makosso-Akendengué, his mother), "On
s'ennuie pas", "J'avance jusqu'à maintenant".
Produced by Apoplexia and MIdi 52
From
May to November 2008 : on stage in several theatres for the
show "Rendez-vous Secret", with the actress, singer and
voice actress Maïk Darah. For the first time, a musician is on
stage with him, to play guitar
2008,
October the 31st : he sings 4 songs in a show with several
artists, organized by Editions Lalouline at the Tandem Music center,
in Caen. He participates in a documentary of Laure Michel, on Arte
2009 :
shows in Germany and Belgium. The biograph Bernard Violet writes on
him in his book about Yannick Noah ("Yannick Noah, Le Guerrier
Pacifique")
2009,
March the 17th : he sings "Les gens de couleur n'ont
rien d'extraordinaire", in a ceremony against racism, at the
Barbara center, in Paris. He participates in a program TV on M6,
with Maïk Darah
2010 :
launch of the CD "Obama", which includes " Les gens
de couleur n'ont rien d'extraordinaire", "Gabon",
"Chroniques d'une famille australienne"
March
2010: launch of the movie " Une dernière nuit au Mans"
by and with Jann Halexander (he is also the author of the movie main
title) and Maïk Darah
2010,
June the 11th : on stage at L'Archipel, in Paris. The
biograph and song writer Alain Pozzuoli writes 2 pages about him in
his book "Sexy Songs", about eroticism in songs (talking
about "J'Aimerais J'Aimerais"). He participates in the
documentary "L'Amour en tous genres" by Olivier Boucreux
on France 3
2011 :shows
in Koln and Paris, with a chorus line. He is invited by the Mayor of
Aniche (Nord Pas-de-Calais), on November the 12nd, at the Jacques
Tati cinema, and he sings a dozen of songs to end a cinema festival
. Launch of the novel " Confessions d'un Vampire Sud Africain",
from the theatre play
2012 :
several shows in Paris. Launch of the CD "Tristes Tropiques",
which includes " Aucune importance", "Il est minuit
Docteur Schweitzer". Régis Dubois talks about him in his book
"Les Noirs dans le cinéma français". Launch of the movie
"La Bête Imonde" DVD, by and with Jann Halexander (he is
also the author of the main title), and Maïk Darah
2013,
March the 21st : ten years carreer- concert at L'Auguste
Théâtre, in Paris. Several shows in Paris, Angers, Bordeaux
2013,
September the 27th : launch of the CD "Moi qui rêve",
during a show at Le Magique , a cabaret managed by Marc Havet, in
which Jann Halexander played at the beginning of his Parisian
carreer. The CD includes "Moi qui rêve", written with the
writer Agnès Renaut
2013
November the 5th : he participates in a conference at the
Bordeaux university, about "being an artist".He also
launches several novels " Comme dans une chanson d'Anne
Sylvestre", "Nuit à Hogsback", " La Bête
Immonde"
2014
: several shows (Paris, Bordeaux, Angers);launch of the CD
"Un bon chanteur est une chanteur mort"; he is invited by
the singer Frederic Pages to participate in shows as tribute to
Nougaro ( March the 7th, 8th and 9th) in Paris
2015 :
he is invited in the program TV "Chez Tantine" on TV Sud,
and in the program "JJDA" with Jacky, on IDF1. He performs
in Paris the show "Un bon chanteur est un chanteur mort"
for the last time
From
2003 to 2015 : many CD, movies (DVD), novels and books, thousands of
them were sold; hundreds of shows in France, Belgium, Germany..
And
it is just the beginning...