Renaud

**Renaud**, popular name of  **Renaud Séchan** (born 1952, Paris) is a French singer and songwriter. He sang _Dans mon H.L.M._, _Laisse béton_, _Les Bobos_, _Manhattan-Kaboul_, _Marche à l’ombre_, _Mistral gagnant_, _Molly Malone_ and _Mon beauf’_. In the 90s,  he was a contributor for the satirical weekly magazine _Charlie Hebdo_.

## Personal life

In August 2005, Renaud married Romane Serda. In September 2011, Romane divorced Renaud on the account of his alcoholism and depression.

### Studio albums

|align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year|align="center" rowspan="2" width="300"|Album|align="center" colspan="3" width="60"|Peak positions|align="center" rowspan="2" width="330"|Notes||||
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|style="text-align:center;"|1975|_Amoureux de Paname_ (Polydor)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1977|_Laisse béton_ (Polydor)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1979|_Ma gonzesse_ (Polydor)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1980|_Marche à l'ombre_ (Polydor)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1981|_Le Retour de Gérard Lambert_ (Polydor)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1983|_Morgane de toi_ (Polydor)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|Sold over 1,500,000 copies|
|style="text-align:center;"|1985|_Mistral gagnant_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|Sold over 2,000,000 copies; it was Renaud's most successful album until 2002's _Boucan d'enfer_|
|style="text-align:center;"|1988|_Putain de camion_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1991|_Marchand de cailloux_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1992|_Renaud cante el' Nord_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|Traditional folk songs from the north of France|
|style="text-align:center;"|1994|_À la Belle de Mai_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|1996|_Renaud chante Brassens_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"|22|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|Interpretation of songs by Georges Brassens|
|style="text-align:center;"|2002|_Boucan d'enfer_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|Sold over 2,200,000 copies the most successful Renaud album to date|
|style="text-align:center;"|2006|_Rouge Sang_ (EMI)|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2009|_Molly Malone – Balade irlandaise_ (EMI)|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|34|style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2016|_Renaud_ (Parlophone, Warner Music)|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2019|_Les mômes et les enfants d'abord_ (Parlophone, Warner Music)|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2022|_Métèque_ (Parlophone, Warner)|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2023|_Dans mes cordes_ (Parlophone, Warner)|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||

### Live albums

- 1980: _Bobino_ (Polydor)
- 1981: _Le P'tit bal du samedi soir et autres chansons réalistes_ (Polydor)
- 1982: _Un Olympia pour moi tout seul_ (Polydor)
- 1989: _Visage pâle rencontrer public_ (Virgin)

|align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year|align="center" rowspan="2" width="120"|Album|align="center" colspan="3" width="20"|Peak positions|align="center" rowspan="2" width="70"|Notes||||
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|style="text-align:center;"|1996|_Paris-Province: Aller / Retour_ (Virgin)|style="text-align:center;"|29|style="text-align:center;"|32|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2003|_Tournée d'enfer_ (EMI)|style="text-align:center;"|16|style="text-align:center;"|38|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2007|_Tournée Rouge Sang - Paris Bercy + Hexagone_ (Ceci-Celà)|style="text-align:center;"|16|style="text-align:center;"|38|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||

### Compilations

|align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year|align="center" rowspan="2" width="120"|Album|align="center" colspan="3" width="20"|Peak positions|align="center" rowspan="2" width="70"|Notes||||
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|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=5|1995|_Les Introuvables_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|29|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|A collection of rarities|
|_Ma compil_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|36|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||
|_85-95_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||
|_The Meilleur of Renaud 75-85_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|11|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||
|_The Very Meilleur of Renaud 1975/1995_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|14|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2000|_L'absolutely meilleur of Renaud_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|29|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2006|_Les 100 plus belles Chansons 1975-1983_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|76|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|_Les 100 plus belles Chansons 1985-2006_|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2011|_Le plein de super!_|style="text-align:center;"|15|style="text-align:center;"|33|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|3CD Best Of|
|style="text-align:center;"|2012|_Intégrale 2012_|style="text-align:center;"|76|style="text-align:center;"|200|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2014|_Les 50 plus belles chansons_|style="text-align:center;"|57|style="text-align:center;"|59|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|_Les 100 plus belles chansons 1985-2006_ (5 CDs)|style="text-align:center;"|185|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2020|_L'album de sa vie_|style="text-align:center;"|134|style="text-align:center;"|81|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|_The totale of la bande à Renaud_|style="text-align:center;"|38|style="text-align:center;"|110|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|2 CD tribute to Renaud by Various Artists|||
|style="text-align:center;"|2021|_Putain de Best Of!_|style="text-align:center;"|16|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|3 CD digipack|

### Singles

|align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year|align="center" rowspan="2" width="120"|Single|align="center" colspan="4" width="20"|Peak positions|align="center" rowspan="2" width="70"|Album||||||
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|style="text-align:center;"|1986|"Miss Maggie"|style="text-align:center;"|13|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|_Mistral gagnant_|
|style="text-align:center;"|1991|"Marchand de cailloux"|style="text-align:center;"|25|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|_Marchand de cailloux_|
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|1992|"P'tit voleur"|style="text-align:center;"|35|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||
|"La ballade nord-irlandaise"|style="text-align:center;"|44|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||||||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2002|"Docteur Renaud, Mister Renard"|style="text-align:center;"|23|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|6 <small>(Ultratip)</small>|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|_Boucan d'enfer_|
|"Manhattan-Kaboul" <small>(with Axelle Red)</small>|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|34|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|37|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2003|"Coeur perdu"|style="text-align:center;"|91|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|11 <small>(Ultratip)</small>|style="text-align:center;"||||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2005|"Anaïs Nin <small>(Romane Serda feat. Renaud)</small>|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|31|style="text-align:center;"|61|style="text-align:center;"||
|"Dans la jungle"|style="text-align:center;"|31|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|19|style="text-align:center;"|64|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|_Rouge Sang_|||
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2|2006|"Les bobos"|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|16|style="text-align:center;"|51|||
|"Arrêter la clope!"|style="text-align:center;"|31|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|3 <small>(Ultratip)</small>|style="text-align:center;"||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2009|"Vagabonds"|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|19 <small>(Ultratip)</small>|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|_Molly Malone – Balade irlandaise_|
|style="text-align:center;"|2011|"La liberté en cavale" <small>(Dr. Tom)</small>|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|30 <small>(Ultratip)</small>|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2012|"Mistral gagnant"|style="text-align:center;"|102|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|_Mistral gagnant_|
|style="text-align:center;"|2015|"Ta batterie"|style="text-align:center;"|36|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||
|style="text-align:center;"|2016|"Toujours debout"|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|48|style="text-align:center;"||

## Movies

- _Germinal_ (1993) as Étienne Lantier
- _Crime Spree_ (2003) as Zéro

## Awards

- 1993: Traditional music album of the year award for "Renaud cante el' Nord"
- 2001: Lifetime achievement award
- 2003: Three awards given for: Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year (for _Manhattan-Kaboul_ with Axelle Red)

## Other websites

- Biography of Renaud, from Radio France Internationale

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Renaud
- **image**: Renaud, 2017 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Renaud in 2017
- **birth name**: Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan
- **birth place**: Paris, France
- **origin**: Paris
- **instrument**: Guitar
- **years active**: 1975–present