{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Rougge", "page" : "rougge", "description" : "the two hundred and twenty two strings of a piano and a voice", "location" : "Nancy, France", "bio" : "Rougge was born in 1974 in the East of France.\n\nWhile listening to him sing at a very young age, his parents decide to enroll him in music classes. As a child, he studies classical guitar. As a teenager, he moves on to electric guitar and flamenco. He continuously explores and improves his voice, first on his own and later on stage with other musicians.\n\nComposing then becomes an additional way of expressing himself. Another outlet for more personal feelings. He dedicates himself to this new form of expression aimed at deeply exploring genuine human emotions.\n\nAfter a while, the desire of an unknown \"out there\" and for renewal, leads him to England. To Liverpool with its sharp contrasts. A mythical town for music. The Mersey River. The Pier Head. A touch of Ireland.\n\nRefocusing. Listening to inner voices. New feelings.\n\nThe Piano. New strings. The words are looking for meanings. Wander. Fade completely and....\n\nRougge is born. The strings of the piano and of the voice blend from there on in as a delicate roar. An ethereal voice free of words, of sentences. A voice that targets a pure emotional state.\n\nA unique mix of sounds ranging from classical to rock, to contemporary music. A singular and carnal expressiveness.\n\nTowards the end of 2007, Rougge returns home and creates his first album Fragments. Recorded and mixed between France and England, Fragments is warmly welcomed by music critics in various, major European web magazines. This positive momentum leads to a contract between Rougge and the French publisher Volvox Music who hear in the 11 fragments (the 11 songs of the album), \"ambitious, captivating music\".\n\nCollaborations soon follow with two painters Isabelle Szlachta and Robbin Milne. They extract a powerful creative energy from Rougge's music leading both to new artistic creations as well as an audio-visual project.\n\nIn 2009, Parisian stage director Clement Saunier hears in Rougge's music a great inspiration for directing his play \"La Fellation du Diable\". Rougge then adapts several \"Fragments\" for Saunier's production and a theatrical collaboration is established.\n\nAn encounter with his peers, Marc Vella, \"the World travelling concert pianist\", and his friend Marko Meles, concert pianist and graduate from the Belgrade Conservatory, slowly leads Rougge towards the stage and live performance: first in May 2009 with 10 concerts together named \"Glassovir\" at the \"Petit Theatre dans La Ville\" in Nancy and from 2010 onwards, on stage for a Solo performance. It is here that Rougge's musical colour reaches its intensity.", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/rougge.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/rougge/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "rougge-fragments", "name" : "Fragments", "artist" : { "name" : "Rougge", "page" : "rougge" }, "release_date" : "2011-10-30", "genres" : ["Classical","Vocal","Neoclassical"], "vocals" : "vocals", "moods" : ["ethereal","meditative","dreamy","peaceful","reflective","melancholic"], "uses" : ["podcast background","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus","emotional storytelling","art or gallery"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["piano","wordless female vocals","acoustic piano","minimalist instrumentation"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "An intimate, wordless neoclassical album featuring solo piano and airy, non-lexical vocals—ideal for meditative, reflective, or emotionally resonant background use.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Rougge/Fragments/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/rougge-fragments/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/rougge-fragments", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=rougge-fragments" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. Projects released while a member stay licensed for good; new projects need an active membership. Credit is required. TV or radio broadcast, cinema, and background music in shops, restaurants or on-hold lines are not included: license those from the musician. Membership: $10/month, $99/year or $299 lifetime; agents can buy one themselves with MPP at /api/member-pass ($10 month, $99 year, $299 lifetime, one-off).", "projects_status" : "available", "projects_signup" : "https://magnatune.com/member/signup", "royalty_free" : "Membership is royalty-free licensing: no per-video, per-download or per-view fees, for every project created and released while a member.", "youtube" : "YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, podcasts: members may use the clean songs in monetized videos. Members register their YouTube channel (the set_youtube_channel MCP tool, or their account page) so YouTube's Content ID doesn't claim their videos. The free versions carry a spoken Magnatune voice and are non-commercial (CC BY-NC-SA), so they're not for monetized channels or client work.", "details" : "https://magnatune.com/info/licensing", "how_to_credit" : "Name the artist and \"Magnatune\", with a link to the album's web_url." } }