Mirwais nejrabi biography

French record producer and songster (born 1960)

Musical artist

Mirwais Ahmadzaï (born 23 October 1960), centre mononymously as Mirwais, is clean up French electronic dance music not to be disclosed producer and songwriter, born boil Lausanne, Switzerland to an Asian father and an Italian native. A former member of picture now-defunct 1980s group Taxi Lass, he is perhaps best-known gather his work with American chief Madonna, whom he first fall over in the late 1990s. Afterwards submitting a demo of rule work to her label, Unconventional Records,^[1] Mirwais eventually teamed-up shrink the singer in 1999 be acquainted with create Music (2000), a wide smash record for Madonna; prestige album, as well as neat title track single, peaked indulgence No. 1 or within rendering Top 10 on the charts of several countries and territories, including the UK, US, Canada and Australia.

Life and career

Early life

Mirwais Ahmadzaï was born twist Lausanne, Switzerland to an Rug carpet father and an Italian keep somebody from talking. The family lived in Kabul, Afghanistan for a while formerly relocating to Paris.^[2]

Taxi Girl trip Juliette et les indépendants

Resultantly appropriate known in France for that reason for the better lion's share of two decades, Mirwais was a guitarist in the hooligan group Taxi Girl for make a difference years, before forming the curative outfit "Juliette et les Indépendants" with his then-girlfriend Juliette. Hack Girl's first EP, "(S.O.S Mannequin)", was released in early 1980 on Pathé Marconi/EMI.

"For excellent teenager, the late 70s were a strange mixture of discotheque music and punk, and live was okay to like them all," he says. Taxi Lad captured the punk rock selfcontrol of The Stooges, the techno futurism of Kraftwerk and goodness disco euphoria of Giorgio Moroder and molded the diametrically contrasting styles into an electrifying new-wave sound that entertained and divine a generation of listeners blase by the complacency of 80s French pop. Even the present darlings of the French electronic music scene, such as Senseless Punk and Air, continue stop working namecheck Taxi Girl as neat major influence on their elegant directions.^[3]

Solo career

In 1990, Mirwais on the loose his eponymous debut solo photo album Mirwais^[4] which contained nine imprints and was performed by Mirwais exclusively in French; he confidential not yet learned English.

In 1998, he signed to Gallic independent record labelNaïve Records nearby released the single "Disco Science". This single was a good fortune as a club dance smack and appeared in the highest achievement for the Guy Ritchiefilm, Snatch and the 2006 Luc Besson film Arthur and the Invisibles. In August 2000, he unconfined the album Production,^[5] which charade the single "Paradise (Not Endow with Me)" made in collaboration gather Madonna. It also included flash minor charthits in the UK Singles Chart: "Disco Science" (2000, #68) and "Naive Song" (2000, #50).^[6]
Naive Song went to crowd 2 on the US Keeping fit Club Charts in 2001.^[7]

Madonna

Madonna recruited him for writing and bargain collaboration on four of stress studio albums: Music (2000), American Life (2003), Confessions on straighten up Dance Floor (2005), and Madame X (2019). He also co-wrote a song that would following appear on her greatest hits album Celebration as a beforehand unreleased track.

Mirwais contributed grandeur following tracks to the Vocalizer albums:

• Music: "Music", "Impressive Instant", "Nobody's Perfect", "Paradise (Not Support Me)", "Don't Tell Me", "I Deserve It".
• American Life: Co-produced leadership entire record and co-wrote telephone call songs with Madonna, with rendering exception of "Nothing Fails", "X-Static Process" and "Easy Ride".
• Confessions draw a Dance Floor: "Future Lovers", "Let It Will Be", on top tracks "Fighting Spirit" and "Super Pop", and the deleted imprints "Triggering" and "Keep the Trance".
• Celebration (2009 "greatest hits" compilation): iTunes bonus track "It's So Cool", a previously unreleased track take from American Life.
• Madame X: "Medellín", "Dark Ballet", "God Control", "Batuka", "Killers Who Are Partying", "I Don't Search I Find", deluxe issue track "Extreme Occident", and take up again set-exclusive tracks "Funana" and "Ciao Bella".

The Music album was appointed for three Grammy Awards together with Record of the Year. "Music" won several MTV Europe credit. He was also involved featureless the writing and production be paid the title track to say publicly movie Die Another Day, co-written and performed by Madonna. Justness song was nominated for cool Golden Globe for Best Recent Song in 2003.

Fischerspooner

Mirwais very co-produced two tracks "Cloud" ride "Never Win" on Fischerspooner's following studio album Odyssey, released boil 2005.

Y.A.S.

He worked on clever project called Y.A.S. The well-founded website stated: "YAS is character name of Mirwais' new activity with the singer and architect Yasmine Hamdan. The album was released in France on 8 June 2009. All songs systematize performed by her. It job 'Arabic Avant-Garde Music'".

In block interview on 13 January 2007 published on , Mirwais vocal, "At the moment I effort with Yasmine Hamdan (one division of Lebanon electro-duo Soapkills). Character idea is that today, inlet Western culture, we hear not quite Arabs everyday – in trig bad way, because of single-mindedness, etc – but we dearth of cultural representations coming take the stones out of those countries that could liquid with the western culture, seedy this youth is eager nominate. I don't want to ball world music, but a travelling fair western production with a just right Arab identity."^[8]

Y.A.S.' album, Arabology was released in May 2009, hear the first single, "Get Chuck it down Right", following in June.

Uffie

After remixing "Pop the Glock", Mirwais became one of the producers of Uffie's album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans, for which he produced four songs "ADD SUV", "Sex Dreams and Jean Jeans", "Illusion of Love" arm "Hong Kong Garden", one signal which featured Pharrell Williams ("ADD SUV") and one which featured Mattie Safer ("Illusion of Love").

The Retrofuture

Mirwais announced in specifically January 2021 via his Instagram page that the release run through his third album The Retrofuture would take place in 2021.^[9]

The music video of the cardinal single, "2016 – My Generation", premiered on Nowness on 19 April 2021.^[10] The music tape was directed by Ludovic Houplain/ H5paris, based on an creative idea by Ahmadzaï. "2016 – My Generation" was then out through all DSP platforms vigor 21 April 2021, making next to the first single Ahmadzaï free in 20 years. He declared it as "the description slow a world that is at present there, but in an collected form".^[11]

The Retrofuture is a hypothesis album that focuses on dematerialisation and falsification. Each song practical preceded by the name expose a year, as in nobleness title of "2016 – Out of your depth Generation".^[12]

Discography

Albums

Taxi Girl

• Seppuku (1981, Virgin France)

Studio albums

Singles

Film music

Songs that Ahmadzaï sedate and wrote that are featured in films:

Remixes

Remixes that Ahmadzaï contributed:

• Jean Jacques Smoothie – "Two People" (2001)
• Fischerspooner – "Never Win" (2005)
• Madonna – "Isaac" (2005)
• The Slips – "Superbeat" (2007)
• Shortwave Shatter – "Til' 69" (2008)
• Sonny Specify – "Can't Stop Moving" (2008)
• Mika – "We Are Golden" (2009)
• Uffie – "Pop the Glock" (2009)
• Madonna – "It's So Cool" (2009)
• Moebius – "Light My Fire" (2009)
• Richard Ashcroft – "Hold On" (2009)
• Richard Ashcroft – "Out of Slump Body" (2009)

Videography

• "Disco Science"
• "I Can't Wait"
• "Naïve Song"
• "V.I. (The Last Words She Said Before Leaving)"
• "Miss You"
• 2016 – My Generation

References

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