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Soldat Louis
HistorySoldat Louis's first album, Première bordée appeared in 1988.
The band played as support to the solo singer-songwriter Renaud, in his series of concerts at the Zénith in Paris the following year.
The first single from that album, “Du rhum des femmes”, projected them to national exposure, with the single selling 750,000 copies, and the album went double gold.
During the "golden age" of the French Top 50, chansons de comptoir (bar songs) were à la mode ("Allez viens boire un p'tit coup à la maison" etc.) and Soldat Louis found themselves associated with this musical style.Their second album was released two years after their first: "Pavillon Noir", however, did not achieve the same success, and nor did any of the albums that followed.
Despite disappearing from the mainstream media, Soldat Louis continued, having changed their line-up (except for the two founding members), to tour concert halls around France, also releasing several more original albums, best-ofs and live albums.Song themesAlthough the chanson “Du Rhum des femmes” saw the group labelled by the French public as composers of chansons à boire (drinking songs), the rest of their repertoire, which achieved less success, consists of more delicate songs (“Pavillon noir”), nostalgic (“Encore un rhum”), humorous (“Martiniquaise”), or even weary ("T'es mon secret").
Other lyrics equally reveal the group to be politically engaged, such as the pamphlet-like “C'est un pays”, celebrating the Breton identity, as well as “Bobby Sands”, about the Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands, who died in prison on Hunger Strike.
