Songs in Picture
Discover the videos of Jean-Pierre Martinez’s original songs. Each video combines music, lyrics and images through slideshows of photographs, illustrations or paintings that extend the universe of each song.
A songwriter and playwright, Jean-Pierre Martinez offers here original French songs exploring universal themes with humour, tenderness or melancholy: love, the passing of time, memories, travel and the human condition.
Un si joli village (A Village So Beautiful)
Aux petits bonheurs (Simple pleasures)
Légèreté (Lightness)
Liberté (Freedom)
La Parole (The Word)
Why songs in pictures?
Songs tell stories. Images do too. When the two come together, they offer a new way of entering an artistic universe. The videos presented on this page are not music videos in the traditional sense. They combine original songs with photographs, illustrations or paintings chosen to extend the emotions, themes and stories evoked by the lyrics. Each image enters into dialogue with the music and invites the listener into a more immersive experience.
As both a songwriter and a playwright, Jean-Pierre Martinez places great importance on the narrative dimension of his songs. Many of them are built like short stories featuring characters, situations or memories. Images can then accompany the narrative without locking it into a single interpretation, leaving everyone free to imagine their own story.
These music videos allow listeners to enjoy the songs while discovering a visual accompaniment specially designed to enrich their atmosphere and narrative. Another way to enter this universe where music and poetry, theatre and storytelling come together.
You will also find on this site the lyrics of the songs, thematic playlists and Jean-Pierre Martinez’s complete repertoire, available to listen to freely.