Et si tu n'existais pas - Paris Chansons (with Zhenya Gershman)

"Et si tu n'existais pas" (If you didn't exist)

Paris Chansons in collaboration with artist Zhenya Gershman.

Our take on the classic by Joe Dassin, based on a live looping performance.

Original music by Toto Cutugno, Pasquale Losito
Original lyrics by Vito Pallavicini, Pierre Delanoë and Claude Lemesle

Paris Chansons is an exciting French musical group that is known for their original renditions of French favorites from Aznavour, Dassin, Piaf, Macias, Adamo, all the way to contemporary artists like Zaz. Their exhilarating performances are punctuated with gypsy, jazz and world flavors as well as classics in Russian, Italian and other languages.
http://www.parischansons.com

Zhenya Gershman
Artist
http://www.ZhenyaGershman.com

Zhenya Gershman is a Russian-born U.S. painter and portraitist. She is known for her dramatic monumental portraits of iconic public and private figures and interest in art history.

Gershman's portraits are featured in public and private collections including Douglas Simon, Richard Weisman, and Arte Al Limite Museum, in Santiago, Chile. The GRAMMY MusiCares selected Gershman to create portraits of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Gershman is co-Founder and President of http://www.ProjectAWE.org dedicated to exploring connections between Western esotericism and the arts.

Jose Infante
Director & Editor
http://www.joseinfante.com/

Drone footage by:
Jake Szarzynski President, Pacific Coast Aerial Solutions
http://www.pacific-drones.com
And if you didn’t exist
Tell me why should I exist
To wander in a world without you
Without hope and without regrets

And if you didn’t exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees the colors of the day born from his fingers
And who can’t recreate them

And if you didn't exist,
tell me for whom would I exist.
The passers-by asleep in my arms,
whom I will never love

And if you didn't exist,
I wouldn't be more than a speck
in a world that comes and goes,
I would feel lost,
I would need you

And if you didn’t exist
Tell me how could I exist
I could pretend to be another me,
but I would not be true to myself

And if you did not exist
I think that I would have found
The secret of life, and why to live
Just to create you
And to look at you

And if you didn’t exist
Tell me why should I exist
To wander in a world without you
Without hope and without regrets
And if you didn’t exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees the colors of the day
born from his fingers and can not believe what he sees

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