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S-a mai nascut o stea: Sophie-Tith

Sophie-Tith Charvet is a French singer, born on September 19, 1996 in Ambilly, France. She grew up in Annemasse. In 2012, she joined the cast for Nouvelle Star, aired on D8. On February 26, 2013, she won the ninth season. Signed to Universal/Polydor, her debut album Premières Rencontres will come out on July 1.

Sophie-Tith - Sorry seems to be the hardest word

Sophie Tith - T'es beau (live dans le Grand Studio RTL)

Sophie Tith - Firework

Biographie

Sophie-Tith est la troisième d'une fratrie de 3 filles. Elle nait à Ambilly et grandit dans une maison à Ville-la-Grand, une commune située dans la banlieue nord d'Annemasse en Haute-Savoie. La deuxième partie de son prénom serait d'origine laotienne et signifierait raison, sentiment humain (ou Tith signifierait, sans la prononciation du th, « petite »)1. Elle fréquente l'école maternelle des Pottières, puis l'école élémentaire du Centre et est élève en 1re ES au lycée Jean-Monnet d'Annemasse.

Passionnée de musique depuis l'âge de 7 ans, elle apprend le saxophone et le solfège. Mais petit à petit, c'est le rock qui s'empare de la jeune Villamagnaine. Avec quatre amies, elle fonde le groupe Asmoday, un quintet indie rock qui se retrouvera même en première partie de Rage Against The Marmottes.

En janvier 2012, Sophie-Tith décide de quitter le girls band2.Elle arrête les cours de solfège et de saxophone à l'âge de 14 ans, trop débordée, et préfère se concentrer sur sa scolarité, mais arrivée au lycée, elle crée à l'âge de 16 ans avec des amis le groupe Nova composé de 5 membres, dont Sophie au chant.

Elle participe en 2013 à l'émission de télé-crochet Nouvelle Star dont elle sort gagnante le 26 février, élue par le public face à Florian Bertonnier. Elle remporte donc un contrat pour un premier album avec la maison de disques Polydor3.

Le 1er juillet 2013 sort Premières rencontres, un album de reprises produit en partie par Sinclair.

Video hit Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song (live, 1997)

A fantastic performance of the Banana Boat Song. This concert was recorded in 1997 (State University Of New York at Purchase). The audience is great!

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) is a traditional Jamaican mento folk song, the best-known version of which was sung by Harry Belafonte and an alternate version interspersed with another Jamaican folksong, Hill and Gully Rider, by Dame Shirley Bassey.

Despite the song's mento influences, "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is widely known as an example of calypso music. It is a work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Daylight has come, the shift is over and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home.

The song was originally a Jamaican folk song. Its popular version was adapted by Barbadian Irving Burgie. It was thought to be sung by Jamaican banana workers, with a repeated melody and refrain (call and response); with each set lyric there would be a response from the workers but using many different sets of lyrics, some possibly improvised on the spot. The first recorded version was done by Trinidadian singer Edric Connor and his band "Edric Connor and the Caribbeans" in 1952, on the album Songs From Jamaica; the song was called "Day Dah Light".

Belafonte based his version on Edric Connor's 1952 and Louise Bennett's 1954 recordings.

In 1955, singer/songwriters Irving Burgie and William Attaway wrote a version of the lyrics for the Colgate Comedy Hour in which the song was performed by Harry Belafonte. This is the version that is by far the best known to listeners today, as it reached number five on the Billboard charts in 1957 and later became Belafonte's signature song. Side two of Belafonte's 1956 Calypso album opens with "Star O", a song referring to the day shift ending with the first star seen in the sky.

Also in 1956, folk singer Bob Gibson, who had travelled to Jamaica and heard the song, taught his version of it to the folk band The Tarriers. They recorded a version of that song that mixed in the chorus of another Jamaican folk song, "Hill and Gully Rider", and released it, spawning what became their biggest hit. It outdid Belafonte's original on the pop charts, reaching number four. This version was re-recorded by Shirley Bassey in 1957, and became a hit in the United Kingdom.

The Tarriers, or some subset of the three members of the group (Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Alan Arkin) are sometimes credited as the writers of the song, perhaps because their version of the song, which mixed in another song, was an original creation.

The lyrics:

Day-o, Day-ay-ay-o