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Renaud Hantson is a French singer and musician. He participated to the rock operas Starmania and La vie de Jimmy. He is also a member of the French hard-rock band Satan jokers and formed Furious Zoo. In 2012 he released an album with former Sortilège singer under the name Zouille & Hantson. .

Mélanie Renaud, une chanteuse québécoise, est née en Haïti est adoptée à l'âge de huit ans. Elle a commencé son métier en chantant sur le piste "Mon ange" d'Éric Lapointe à 18 ans. Après ça, l'equipe de M. Lapointe l'aider créer son premier album, "Ma liberté". Ses collaborations inclure une chanson avec Corneille, "Vivre pour soi". .

Garcia-Fons was born in the Paris region in 1962 into an artistic household. Yet being of Catalonian origin, Garcia-Fons' affinity for Spanish and oriental culture is understandable. In the early 80s he enrolled at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Paris, where he studied with Jean-Pierre Logerrot. From 1987 to 1993 he was part of the unique French all-bass ensemble L'Orchestre de Contrebasses before starting his journey as a soloist that led to his instrument's full emancipation. "I have developed a new language for it," says Garcia-Fons, "so it appears to be a Spanish guitar by imitating the rasgueado in...

Extremely versatile and respected French singer-songwriter. His music is a crossover of folk, rock, blues and punk. Active since the 70s, Renaud has written some very controversial songs during his musical career, the most famous one (to British readers at least) praising all women as being better than men except Margaret Thatcher, saying that if he comes back as a dog in his next life, he will use her as a lampost... He is famously recovering from alcoholism with some degree of success. The most iconic song to many French people, and possibly the song that put him on the...

Renaud Paravel is primarily a graphic artist and cartoonist. His relationship with culture is pretty unique : he only read three books in his whole life. And the word "singer" does not really suits him, it is rather a "teller". His musical arrangements are often call the collage, the samples, mixing sounds electronic acoustic sounds. All styles are mixed: electronica samples, rhythmic funk, rap, trip-hop, Foley concrete. His texts, read, recited, or chanted, put this artist in line with the "Gainsbourian singers" (Serge Gainsbourg). His lyrics talk of poetry, imagination, frustration, sex, small things, so raw, often tinged of cynical...