Cecile Corbel

Cecile Corbel
cecile corbel with her harp
cecile corbel
trio concert in Adelberg (Belgium)

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original song from Cecile's new album
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  • Cecile Corbel (celtic harp and voice)

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A redhead fairy, just out of a Broceliande tale, (…) eternal vibrations, powerful culture, charismatic personnality” La terrasse October 2006

Singer and composer Cécile Corbel was born in Brittany, the Celtic region in the north-west of France.
As a child, she travels all over Brittany with her parents, who were puppeteers.
In her teens, after learning the guitar, she discovered the Celtic harp.

Aged 18, she then moves to Paris.
After a few years performing in Parisian streets, pubs and cafés, she self-produces her first album, soon distributed by the most important French Celtic label Keltia Musique (Sinead O’Connor, Loreena Mc Kennit). 3 years after this first work, she now releases her second, full-scale album, “SongBook 1”, inviting the musicians who followed her during these years.

Her unique harp technique and her appealing young voice sometimes compared to Kate Bush’s, reveal a world encompassing ancient poems, original compositions, Celtic tunes and Mediterranean melodies.
She takes you for a trip out of a time.
Following the path of prestigious musicians such as Alan Stivell, the young Breton composer and singer now performs her Celtic and world music with her musicians in France and all over the world.

“Corbel belongs to this new generation of European folkies, she is happy to take crusty old folk standards and reinvent them for the 21st-century audience” Sydney morning Herald – February - 2007

“Cécile Corbel sings like a nightingale” Libération – 18 Nov. 2006

”She imposes an enchanting universe with a clever mix of traditionnal Irish songs and Breton tunes”.
20 minutes 2 Nov. 2006

She recently appeared for 3 concerts as supporting artist for the famous French pop singer Laurent Voulzy in may 2007 at the “Olympia” in Paris, and she also was supporting artist for many great world music musicians including Lunasa, Helen Flaherty, Ousmane Toure, Alan Stivell or the baroque harpist Ariana Savall, daughter of Jordi Savall

She has also performed at various Festivals and concert halls: La Maroquinerie, Solidays 2005, and International Harp Festival at Dinan (France)...
And warmly greeted abroad: Australia and Tasmania (Australian tour 2006 - French festival of Adelaide with Yann Tiersen and Matmatah), Estonia, The Czech Republic, England, United States (Louisiana, Texas)

In 2005 she was awarded the..Prix Paris jeunes talents musique.. (Talented young musician award of Paris)
In 2007, she will perform all over France and in Belgium, Estonia, England, Netherlands and Germany...She ‘ll be on stage with Altan, Carlos Nunez or Soldat Louis…(…)
She will also perform in the main Celtic rendezvous of the summer, especially in her native Brittany in July and august for 12 concerts.

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