PASCAL OF BOLLYWOOD
Pascal is “a pure child of Les Batignolles”. There will always be a place in his heart for the Parisian quarter where he was born on the 25th April 1963. Surrounded by music from the earliest age, he remembers his mother singing a wide repertoire of pop songs she knew by heart from dawn to dusk. Then, in a teasing flash, he tells us that his rich baritone came from his father, "The Voice", an unconditional lover of vocal experimentation and imitation, whose greatest idol was Joe Dassin.
Pascal of Bollywood
- Pascal of Bollywood
- WRASS 149
- Harmonia Mundi
An outrageous shirt reconciling psychedelia with kinetic art, a blindingly flashy gold watch and a mobile telephone decorated with Hindu goddesses… With a roar of laughter, Pascal of Bollywood announces that his costume is “unusually sober”. Barefoot in his Rajasthan Batas, Pascal Héni (the name on his passport) has come from his house in the Paris region today, where “wandering” frogs and miniature birds such as the white eye or the Tanimbar parrot-finch hop and flit in freedom. Immediately, our oddball singer brandishes the DVD of his favourite film, “An Evening in Paris”. The subject? “An incitement to passion and travel filmed by Bollywood in the very Courrèges Paris of 1967.” The ultimate proof that he genuinely loves this feature film? The song sung over its credits provides the brilliant opening for the first album by this Frenchman, who has won fame in India, under a stage name borrowed from the country’s prolific film industry.