Pipo (2015) Painting by Jean-Michel Noirey

Jean-Michel Noirey, born in Corbie in the Somme department, is a French actor, playwright, director and singer, also a painter.

Jean-Michel Noirey was born in Corbie in the Somme, but he spent his childhood in Senlis in the Oise, then in Saint-Quentin in the Aisne where he studied1. Originally from Picard, he then went to Paris where, after training at the Cours Simon from which he graduated with a first prize, he began his career in the 1980s, first as a theater actor.

At the same time leader of troops through Eden Théâtre and Les Indomptables, collectives within which he stages several plays, he also writes shows such as La Saison des wounds, a story about the war of 14-18, text read at the Petit Théâtre de l'Odéon, and Maurice l'indomptable, created on the national stage in Amiens and performed at the Tristan Bernard theater, in Paris.

We find it again also in cinema and television in numerous roles.

At the same time, in the 1990s, Jean-Michel Noirey began his musical career. Always in search of the musical identity inspired by his native land[non-neutral], Jean-Michel Noirey explores genres and musical mixing with the common thread of work on memory, the memory of all the nationalities that set foot on the soil of Picardy during the Great War.

In 1990, he wrote the first version of the monologue of Maurice the Indomitable (theatre and music) and, in 1994, he worked on musical writing and first song lyrics in collaboration with Nicolas Repac. In the second version of Maurice the Indomitable from 1997, the songs are essential to the show and he recorded the libretto of the piece at the Label Bleu studio in Amiens. He subsequently met the accordionist Philippe Mallard with whom he made 70 performances of Maurice l'indomptable at the Tristan Bernard theater (Paris) between 1999 and 2000, while making his first concerts as a duo during the Théâtre Tristan Bernard (Paris). a tour in the Picardy region.

During 2001 and 2002, he opened for Paul Personne and Tri Yann as part of a tour called Tout nu dans le soleil, started in the North of France and which ended at La Maroquinerie in Paris. From 2003, he began writing the album Questions de Couleurs in collaboration with Philippe Mallard, which was finally released in 2006 on the occasion of the Sucrerie festival in Picardie. Throughout this period, he participated in numerous concerts at Salmanazar (Épernay), at L'Estive (Foix – Tournée en Ariège), at Café de la danse (Paris) and Chez Ramulaud (Paris).

In 2007, while preparing his future album, he met and collaborated with the guitarist Acacio Andrade and the director and composer Bertrand Allaume. In 2009, he released the album La Vie en loop, followed two years later by Rouget Braconnier - Matricule 7358.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists Artists presented by a gallery