Superflu est né en 1994, à Lille, autour des chansons que Nicolas bidouillait sur son 4 pistes à la maison. Nicolas, Sonia, Sébastien ont tourné dans les salles et les bars du Nord. Et puis Gauthier qui faisait leur son et, à l'occasion, quelques premières parties, les a rejoints à la basse. Pas de batterie : l'essentiel des chansons repose sur les guitares et les voix. En 1996, une moitié du groupe émigre à Paris où habite déjà Gilles.
Arthur H is Arthur Higelin's stage name. Higelin (born Paris, France, 27 March 1966), is a French pianist, songwriter and singer. He is the son of the French singer Jacques Higelin and Nicole Courtois. After traveling in the West Indies, he studied music in Boston before returning to Paris and developing his eclectic but highly personal musical style, drawing on such influences as Thelonious Monk, Serge Gainsbourg, The Sex Pistols, jazz, blues, Middle Eastern music and the tango.
Born on the 6 October 1968 in Provins, France, Dominique Ané is the only child of a teacher and a homemaker. A loner throughout his teenage years, he was passionate about literature and music from a young age. He was interested in punk but, at the age of 14, at the beginning of the 1980s, he started to appreciate the dark romanticism of the New Wave movement. After completing high school he studied humanities for a year while holding a range of odd jobs, including a spell as a utility man for an FM radio station in Nantes, where his family lived.
La Grand Sophie, born July 18, 1969 in Thionville, is a French singer songwriter who started her career in the mid 90's alternative Parisian music scene. She grew up in Port-de-Bouc near Marseilles. She created "kitchen music," which she describes as "a mid 90's movement that sees little difference between musical activity and other daily tasks." When she was 13, she started a band with her brother and neighbor. She played the guitar.
Emily Loizeau (born 7 February 1975) is a French author, composer, and singer. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France to a British mother, Emily’s music is hence influenced as much by French chanson (Jeanne Moreau, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Legrand) as by American singer-songwriters and icons like Tom Waits and Randy Newman. She cites Georges Brassens, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles as her primary influences. At the end of 2001, at the age of 26, Loizeau decided to dedicate her life to singing.
Les Ogres de Barback is a french band of 4 brothers and sisters, each one can play several instruments.
They are influenced by french writers like Georges Brassens, Pierre Perret, Renaud, the 80's french alternative scene like Mano Negra, and the music of eastern europe.
Quentin Mosimann is a half French, half Swiss singer-songwriter, living in France. He is also known under the alias "John Louly" as a DJ.
He is born on February, the 14th in 1988.
Since his early childhood he discovered the drums, the synthesizer and specially the piano as an autodidact.
After the participation at various singing contests and his work with the famous french author-composer François Bernheim already as a teenager, he began to compose himself and the music became his vocation.
There are at least two artists who go by the moniker 'Cali'. Cali (Bruno Caliciuri) is a singer-songwriter and musician who was born June 28, 1968 in Perpignan, France.
After many years of playing in bars, villages' theaters, and in front of no body (bordeaux), Cali wrote his first album "Amour parfait". His lyrics talk about love, but the bad side of love with break-ups, clashes, depression, divorces...
Benjamin Biolay is a singer-songwriter, musician and record producer who was born January 20, 1973 in Villefranche-sur-Saone, France.
He first came to the music industry's attention with his collaboration with, and arrangements for, Keren Ann and his sister Coralie Clément. Finally earning a solo contract after many years of struggle, Biolay released his debut album, Rose Kennedy, in 2002. A concept album, Rose Kennedy looks at early 1960s America through the cataractic eyes of the late matriarch, who went from attending dinner parties to suffering the assassination of two of her sons.
French pop duet composed of Pascale (singer) and her husband, Michaël Korchia, musician multi-instrumentalist. Watoo Watoo assembles light pop, almost jazzy, music in French. Also, Michael plays for the group Mumbly and the electro project they call Booly.
He also makes photos
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Excerpt from the band's biography: Watoo Watoo consist primarily of Pascale & Michaël, who live in Bordeaux. Michaël usually records new songs on his computer, e-mails friends to help with the guitars, and then asks Pascale to add her lovely voice...