BIOGRAPHY OLLI
Artistic direction/ voice

OLLI, pianist and composer, of his true name Ollivier LEROY directs since the age of 17 towards the work of the voice and appears very quickly on stage as a singer in various musical sets. From 1987 to 1990, he studies the voice with Bob COKE, an American musician of international fame. Then, he works in Paris with Gilles PETIT, where he apprehends simultaneously the lyric song, song of the Indian raga, the musical theatre. He travels to India, meets Yvan TRUNZLER, a pupil of the famous Dagar brothers and improves in the traditional song of North India (Dhrupad Kind) while following the teaching of USTAD FAHIDDUDIN DAGAR. In Paris, he works with an Indian singer of Calcutta, where he learns the more popular aspect of Indian music through the "Bhajans" (devotional songs) in Hindi, Bengali, pendjabi.... After a licence of musicology directed towards the Western classical music, he graduates at the University of Rennes 2 with a report on the topic of "the influence of the Indian music in the French composers after 1945". In 1997, he is plunged in the training of the Sanskrit writing and the Hindi language with Aparna NARAYAN, an Indian of Bengal, painter and poetess, installed in Rennes. She will write several original texts for OLLI, which he will put in music for his repertory and the "Bollywood" project. Lastly, since two years, he approaches the "Qawwali" song, popular style in Pakistan, with Shuaïb MUSTAQ.
Among his various musical experiments since 1994, are: PANDIP, a world music band he leads (album”Parfums” Keltia music and two mini L.P), SHAFALI a project involving Breton traditional musicians. He took part in creations like "Rene Madec, The Nabab ", a musical tale with the singer Yann-Fanch Kemener, SHAFALI and the string quartet MISHRA. He recorded with the group of world-jazz MUKTA (Warner), with the Breton percussionnist Dominique Molard for STOCK AN DANS (Keltia music), with the group of French song LA TORDUE (single “Pétrin” Sony music).
He composed for the Festival Travelling, music of a dozen dumb short-length film of the beginning of the century and a medium-length film "Aladdin and the marvellous lamp" in 2003.

MEDIAS

RADIOS / TV
France 2, LCI, France 3 Ouest, France 3 Bretagne, France 3 Pays de Loire, TV Breizh, TV Rennes, M6 Rennes
RFI (itw), RFO, France Inter, France Info, France Bleue Breizh Izel (itw), France Bleue Armorique, France Bleue Loire Océan (itw), Couleur 3, Radio Caroline (itw), Radio Montagnes Noires, Radio Rennes (itw), Radio RCF Alpha, Radio Campus Rennes, Radio Canal B.

WEB
Maville.com (itw), Les voisins du Dessous (itw)

PRESS
Libération, Le Monde, Les Inrocks, Ouest France, Le Télégramme, Le Dauphiné Libéré, Presse Océan, Lyon Capitale

"The public claps hands, rebounds on the swaying rhythms of tablas [... ] Incredible, completely surrealist. [... ] Ollivier Leroy literally inhabited by his song.[... ] The artist of Rennes is an Indian among others, as at ease as he would be it on a stage of Bombay, at the sides of Mou Mukherjee, alias Jojo, famous singer doubling frame of Bollywood films. " Ouest-France, July 7, 2004 (Benoit Le Breton)

"Refusing the diktat of the diagrams promotion and tour, [... ] Les Tombées (Festival) consequently seems an Eden for all the followers of exploration.[... ] the Indian variations of Talvin Singh and Olli (a Breton involved in the Eastern cause) on visual bottom made in Bollywood. " Libération, July 9, 2004 (Gilles Renault)

"Full success at the Cabaret Frappé Festival”. Nearly 600 people came, yesterday, to applaud this atypical spectacle assembled by a young French artist, Ollivier Leroy, fallen in love with the Indian culture at 17 years.[... ] Ten Indian musicians, three French and an Indian singer plunged the Grenoble-native public in a very coloured dream environment, characteristic of the cinematographic culture of India."
Le Dauphiné Libéré, July 22, 2004 (Emmanuelle Bracco)