Anne Meson

Anne Meson (born May 12 1975) is a French show host and singer. Her mother was a Russian artist and a dance teacher. Her father was a Spanish stuntman and musician. In her childhood, Anne studied piano, dance but also equitation.

Her TV careers began in 1982 at 7, when she appears in several commercials. She also was a child model.

Anne appeared for the first time on the silver screen in 1984, in "Stress" along with French famous actors Carole Laure and Guy Marchand. Later, she joined the casts of : "L'amour ou presque" (1985), "La lettre perdue" (1987) and "Bernadette" (1988).

Next to her cinema career, Anne also appeared on stage. She played in Moliere's "Le malade imaginaire", and starred in Philippe Chatel's famous musical "Emilie Jolie". Two years laters, Anne is probably the youngest accompanist to have played with French rock-star Johnny Hallyday during one of his concerts in Paris-Bercy.

The Disney Era

1989 Anne becomes the new French Disney Ambassador , succeeding to Douchka.

Her singing careers begins with the hit "Oliver", inspired from the Disney's Movie "Oliver and Company" Her first solo album is released a few month laters. In the meantime, her TV careers takes a step forward as she copresents the "Disney Parade" French show with famous French presenter Jean-Pierre Foucault.

From this moment on, her career will bear the "Disney" seal : As the French Disney Ambassador, she'll make the front page of several "Disney" magazines, record stories on K7.She'll even perform the French version of several Disney animated series, like "Chip'N'Dale Rescue Rangers" (published in France under the title "Tic & Tac Rangers du Risque") or "Mystermask". Anne is a polyvalent artist : perhaps that's why she also worked at the French radio station "RTL" where she appears in two programmes :"RTL en scène" and "Quoi de neuf chez Disney".

Meanwhile, three of the four first album's singles make it to the top ranks of the French Charts, and two years later sees Anne's consecration, as she's among the nominees for the 1991 prestigious "Victoire de la Musique - Album pour enfants de l'année" (Best Album for Children of the Year) for her first album. At the same time, her new LP, entitled "Demain c'est aujourd'hui" (Tomorrow is Today) is released. As full of hits as the first was, "Demain c'est aujourd'hui" contents several tracks entirely independent from the "Disney" movies and characters, like "1.2.3 Soleil" or "Mais qu'est-ce qui m'arrive ?". Anne took also part of a single designed to save a dying radio station for children "Superloustic".

1992 leds Anne back to the French famous stage of the Olympia where she performs live tracks taken from her two first album... The same year, her third album is released. Christened "Que fera la belle ?" (as a reference to the Disney Movie "Beauty and the Beast") this album is definitely her best one, with 12 outstanding tracks, and rather few "Disney" songs. Once more nominee for the "Victoire de la Musique" (Best album for Children of the Year) for her second album. That year, almost like a normal teenager, Anne sits her "Baccalauréat", as she prepares her 1993 and last Disney album "Mon plus beau rêve" (My dearest dream).

At the end of her Disney engagement in 1994, Anne decides to leave the Disney Staff and tries to get a career of her own, with more personal songs and less Disney stuff. Rather rare today, most Anne's records from that time have become very valuable possessions, sometime at ten times their original value.

A New Career

Next year, Anne gets a show on her own on French TV, before leaving to the United States, where she enters the famed "Theatre of Art". Her American career included dubbing movies and commercials, the writing of her first play "Alfredo's way". She comes back to France only to dance in Maurice Béjart's "1789 et nous", during the commemoration of the French Revolution anniversary. She also joins the "Notre-Dame de Paris" B cast in Las Vegas. This cast recorded an album, in which she sings these three songs : "So look no more for love" , "Shining like the sun" et "My heart if you will swear". Unfortunately, this album is very difficult to find as it was sold only at the venues.

This is her ticket back to France's stages, as she's selected for the new "Notre dame de Paris" French cast in which she sometimes played Esmeralda's and Fleur de lys' parts.

Meanwhile, she also recorded a demo for Randall Wallace's "The Man in the Iron Mask" and a chorus part on a track in Garou's solo debut album "Seul".

What since ? Well, Anne moved to Spain where she currently lives with her boyfriend, with whom she is rumoured run a restaurant. She hasn't given up singing, as she's a member of Spanish band "Naughty noise", preparing the third album which should be released sometime in 2006.

Tomorrow ?

Despite this Spanish career, Anne Meson still wishes to have a crack at a comeback : she prepared in 2003 an album (still unreleased).The possibility of a return in France is not impossible, and is hopefully expected by her French fans who haven't forgotten her.

Discographie

Albums

* "1990 : Anne"
* "1991 : Demain c'est aujourd'hui"
* "1992 : Anne au pays d'EuroDisney"
* "1992 : Que fera la belle"
* "1993 : A toi de chanter volume 1 et 2 "
* "1993 : Mon plus beau rêve"
* "1994 : Ses plus belles chansons"

* "2000 : Notre Dame de Paris Las Vegas cast B"
* "2000 : Garou - Seul (Choeurs sur "Criminel")"
* "2000 : Naughty noise - New bauhaus"
* "2002 : Naugthy noise - Mind your head"

Singles

*"1987 : Comme le dit toujours mon père (chorus)"
*"1989 : Oliver"
*"1990 : Si ma vie tourne bien"
*"1990 : La petite sirène"
*"1990 : Les p'tits loups"
*"1991 : Bernard et Bianca au pays des kangourous"
*"1991 : 1,2,3 soleil"
*"1991 : Demain c'est aujourd'hui (special edition)"
*"1991 : Superloustic - Ta radio c'est ton droit (participation)"
*"1992 : Que fera la belle"
*"1992 : Comme Bambi"
*"1992 : Dans le bleu
*"1993 : Mon plus beau rêve"
*"1993 : Tout le monde veut devenir un cat"

Filmographie

*"1984 : Stress de Jean-Louis Bertucelli"
*"1985 : L'amour ou presque de Jean-François Balme"
*"1987 : La lettre perdue de Jean-Louis Bertucelli"
*"1988 : Bernadette de Jean Delannoy"

External links

Find out more about Anne Meson by browsing these French Websites
* [http://www.annemeson.net/ Annemeson.net] : Anne Meson's current events with videos and playlist
* [http://dans.le.bleu.free.fr/ Dans le bleu] : Forum dedicated to Anne Meson
* [http://annethology.free.fr/ Annethology] : Archives and background data.
* [http://www.ndpnouvellegeneration.fr.st/ NDDP nouvelle génération] : Website about the B French cast of the musical "Notre Dame de Paris" with Anne Meson
* [http://1-2-3-soleil.jeun.fr/index.forum 1,2,3 Soleil] : forum dedicated to Anne Meson, douchka, Dorothée, Hélène Rollès and les Minikeums