Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

Born in Dole, Jura, in 1948, Hubert‑Félix Thiéfaine began performing in Paris’s Left Bank cabarets in the early 1970s before publishing Tout corps vivant branché sur le secteur étant appelé à s’émouvoir in 1978. His career spans chanson française, folk‑rock, blues and electric rock; he writes his own lyrics, noted for a taste for oblique imagery, irony and literary references. After early records still close to folk, the shift to rock was established with Dernières balises (avant mutation) in 1981, followed by Soleil cherche futur (1982), Alambic / Sortie Sud (1984) and Météo für nada (1986). In the 1990s he recorded Chroniques bluesymentales (1990) in New York with Barry Reynolds and Fragments d’hébétude (1993) in Los Angeles with Chris Spedding, before La Tentation du bonheur (1996) and Le Bonheur de la tentation (1998). The remainder of his discography includes Défloration 13 (2001), Scandale mélancolique (2005), Amicalement blues (2007) with Paul Personne, then Suppléments de mensonge (2011), Stratégie de l’inespoir (2014), conceived with Lucas Thiéfaine, and Géographie du vide (2021). On stage, Hubert‑Félix Thiéfaine has long alternated between large venues such as the Olympia, the Zénith or Bercy and more acoustic formats, as demonstrated by the Unplugged and Replugged tours.