Richard Gotainer

Gotainer was a Boy Scout. He met and befriended the animator Jacky.{{cite journal|author=Claude Baron|date=7 June 1985|periodical=Télé 7 Jours|title=Gotainer, un éternel collégien qui sait soigner sa pub}}. He is of Polish Jewish descent.

Gotainer began his professional life in 1972 at the Walter-Thompson advertising agency, from which he was fired the following year for "bad spirits". In 1974, he and Jacques Gaudillat founded the advertising agency Gatkess, specializing in radio spots and soundtracks for television.{{cite web|title=Biographie de Richard Gotainer|url=http://pressibus.free.fr/zuzudisco/gotainer/maingotainer.html}}

Over the years, he created advertising hits that became famous, including M-V (M, m, m comme maroquinier; V, v, v comme voyage, the collective of leather makers), Vittel (Buvez, éliminez), Infinitif (Primitif), Banga (Y'a des fruits, y'a de l'eau), Belle des champs (Tu baguenaudes dans les pâturages…), Choco BN (Il est 4 heures…), Saupiquet (Cassoulet, Couscous, Paella) ou Danette (On se lève tous pour Danette !). From 1982 to 1985, at the Gray agency, he provided the voiceover and the music for the advertising cartoons for Malabar[http://www.mr-malabar.fr/video1981cascade.html Spot publicitaires - série «Aventures Malabar ».] chewing gum. It was during the recording of the advertisement for Banga that he met Claude Engel, a renowned musician. Gotainer offered to work with him, doing so first in television ads and then for songs.{{cite news | url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/10/19/richard-gotainer-dans-sa-douce-folie-des-mots_6146420_3246.html | title=Richard Gotainer dans sa douce folie des mots | date=19 October 2022 }}

More than his advertisements, it was his variety songs that made him known to the general French public, from 1980 onwards. Throughout the 1980s, his dancing electronic hits, with wacky and facetious arrangements on double with a high sound rhythm and playing on alliteration, were massively broadcast on French radios.

Primitif, Poil au tableau, Le Sampa (from the film Le Maître d'école, sold 500,000 singles),[http://www.top-france.fr/html/45tours/45t1982.htm Ventes de 1982] La Ballade de l'obsédé, Le Mambo du décalco, Femmes à lunettes, Chipie, and Le Youki are some of his most famous songs.

Richard Gotainer also gives 250 performances of his musical show co-written with Éric Kristy, La Goutte au pépère (music by Étienne Perruchon ), including one at the Olympia.

When he ceased his collaboration with Claude Engel, his official composer, he then worked with Michaël Lapie for an album with rock and electro atmospheres. On the other hand, Celmar Engel,{{cite web | url=http://www.celmar-engel.com/Interview_page.htm | title=Celmar Engel Interviews }} brother of Claude, works alongside him as a sound engineer and musician.

After his album Comme à la maison (2010), the singer-songwriter announced in 2017 that he was preparing a new album, as well as a work on his radio columns.{{cite web|access-date=2017-03-28|author1=Guillaume Faucheron|date=13 March 2017|language=fr|periodical=Le Berry Républicain|title=Un nouvel album en préparation|url=http://www.leberry.fr/saint-amand-montrond/loisirs/gastronomie/2017/03/13/richard-gotainer-invite-d-honneur-j-aime-les-vins-un-peu-charpentes_12318392.html}} The album Saperlipopette is released in June 2018.{{cite web|author1=Magali Rangin|date=1 June 2018|language=fr|periodical=BFM|title=Richard Gotainer: Saperlipopette ou l'art d'être grossier avec érudition|url=https://people.bfmtv.com/musique/richard-gotainer-saperlipopette-ou-l-art-d-etre-grossier-avec-erudition-1461080.html}}

On March 19, 2018, the National Union of Authors and Composers awarded Richard Gotainer a Grand Prize in tribute to his career.{{cite web|access-date=9 October 2018|date=3 April 2018|language=fr|title=Cérémonie des Grands Prix de l'UNAC 2018|url=http://www.unac.info/ceremonie-des-grands-prix-de-lunac-2018|website=www.unac.info}}

To receive this prize, he had the idea of reciting one of his texts rather than singing. This service is at the origin of the approach{{cite web|access-date=8 October 2022|date=26 August 2022|language=fr|title="Gotainer ramène sa phrase", Journal du vendredi 26 août 2022|url=https://www.vosgestelevision.tv/info/info/Gotainer-ramene-sa-phrase-UGDhEDfbMM.html|website=vosges-television}} that he has undertaken since September 2022 by presenting on stage Gotainer brings back his phrase,{{cite web|access-date=8 October 2022|date=8 September 2022|language=fr|title="Gotainer ramène sa phrase", découvrez ce qui rend ce spectacle inédit|url=https://www.rtbf.be/article/gotainer-ramene-sa-phrase-decouvrez-ce-qui-rend-ce-spectacle-inedit-11061013|website=www.rtbf.be}} his songs played,{{cite web|access-date=7 October 2022|date=17 August 2022|language=fr|title=Richard Gotainer ramène sa phrase en septembre à Namur: "J'avais envie de m'étonner"|url=https://www.lavenir.net/culture/2022/08/17/richard-gotainer-ramene-sa-phrase-en-septembre-a-namur-javais-envie-de-metonner-TEKQ44TCKRCPHBBU77XQIMEE4A/|website=www.lavenir.net}} interpreted like an actor.{{cite web|access-date=23 October 2022|date=19 October 2022|language=fr|title=Richard Gotainer dans sa douce folie des mots|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/10/19/richard-gotainer-dans-sa-douce-folie-des-mots_6146420_3246.html|website=www.lemonde.fr}} He is accompanied by his guitarist accomplice Brice Delage, whose sound interventions illustrate and add noise to the storyteller's words.

In 2020, he ran in the municipal elections of the small town of Cérilly ( Allier ), in 13th position on the list of the outgoing mayor ( DVD ), Olivier Filliat.{{cite web|access-date=2020-03-06|date=2020-03-06|language=fr|title=Richard Gotainer candidat aux municipales dans un village de l'Allier : "Que des gens comme lui s'installent ici, c'est bien"|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/chanson-francaise/richard-gotainer-candidat-aux-municipales-dans-un-village-de-l-allier-que-des-gens-comme-lui-s-installent-ici-c-est-bien_3853625.html|website=Franceinfo}} However, it was the list of Fabien Thevenoux supported by the PCF which won the vote and he was not elected.

Richard Gotainer has two sons, Léo (1991) and Tom (1996),{{cite web|access-date=2020-09-21|date=2018-05-23|title=Le chanteur Richard Gotainer de retour avec un nouvel album " Saperlipopette " - Stéphane Larue|url=https://stephanelarue.com/le-chanteur-richard-gotainer-de-retour-avec-un-nouvel-album-saperlipopette/|website=Stéphane Larue}}. with Isabelle de Araujo, artistic director and professional makeup artist, who was later the companion of actor Christian Clavier.{{cite web | url=https://www.gala.fr/stars_et_gotha/isabelle_de_araujo | title=Isabelle de Araujo - la biographie de Isabelle de Araujo avec Gala.fr }}

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• [https://gotainer.com/ Official website]
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