Grégory Turpin est un chanteur français de musique pop né le 3 juillet 1980 à Saint-Girons en Ariège. C'est lui qui à travers quatre albums (Testament en 2007, Attache-moi en 2010, Mes racines en 2014 et Changer de vie en 2016) développe le courant pop-spi en France.
Grégory Turpin was born in Ariège to parents who were both shopkeepers.He began making music at the age of twelve, when he started taking guitar lessons.At fifteen he converted to Catholicism, which eventually led him to join the monastic order of Carmel in Montpellier.He was forced to leave the monastery after a year due to serious health problems. Turpin began to make a living performing in bars in Toulouse and soon became a great success as part of the city’s night-life.
In 2005, following his recovery from drug addiction, Turpin began using his artistic talent in the service of others. He has since participated in several initiatives involving young people, held in various cities throughout France. The most notable of these is the 2007 production of the musical comedy Un Lys dans les épines [A Lily Among the Thorns] performed in the city of Châlons-en-Champagne in northern France. The production brought together 70 young people from a variety of backgrounds to tell the history of the Basilique Notre-Dame de l’Epine through the medium of music. The production attracted more than 3,000 audience members.
During this period, Turpin also collaborated on two albums with French spiritual singer Soeur Laetitia and produced his first solo album, Testament, which was released in 2007.Turpin moved to Paris in 2008 to gain access to a larger artistic community and to reach a wider audience with his work. There he recorded his second solo album Attache-moi (Never Let Me Go), which had great impact among the Christian music community.In 2012 he published his autobiography, Clair Obscur [In the Shadows],in which he shares his testimony as to his conversion, his time spent in the monastic order at Carmel, as well as his drug addiction and subsequent recovery.
Grégory Turpin est un chanteur français de musique pop né le 3 juillet 1980 à Saint-Girons en Ariège. C'est lui qui à travers quatre albums (Testament en 2007, Attache-moi en 2010, Mes racines en 2014 et Changer de vie en 2016) développe le courant pop-spi en France.
Grégory Turpin was born in Ariège to parents who were both shopkeepers.He began making music at the age of twelve, when he started taking guitar lessons.At fifteen he converted to Catholicism, which eventually led him to join the monastic order of Carmel in Montpellier.He was forced to leave the monastery after a year due to serious health problems. Turpin began to make a living performing in bars in Toulouse and soon became a great success as part of the city’s night-life.
In 2005, following his recovery from drug addiction, Turpin began using his artistic talent in the service of others. He has since participated in several initiatives involving young people, held in various cities throughout France. The most notable of these is the 2007 production of the musical comedy Un Lys dans les épines [A Lily Among the Thorns] performed in the city of Châlons-en-Champagne in northern France. The production brought together 70 young people from a variety of backgrounds to tell the history of the Basilique Notre-Dame de l’Epine through the medium of music. The production attracted more than 3,000 audience members.
During this period, Turpin also collaborated on two albums with French spiritual singer Soeur Laetitia and produced his first solo album, Testament, which was released in 2007.Turpin moved to Paris in 2008 to gain access to a larger artistic community and to reach a wider audience with his work. There he recorded his second solo album Attache-moi (Never Let Me Go), which had great impact among the Christian music community.In 2012 he published his autobiography, Clair Obscur [In the Shadows],in which he shares his testimony as to his conversion, his time spent in the monastic order at Carmel, as well as his drug addiction and subsequent recovery.
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