Kid Francescoli

Behind Kid Francescoli is Mathieu Hocine, a French musician and producer based in Marseille, whose project sits at the crossroads of electronic pop, dream pop and a gentler approach to dance music. Active since the early 2000s, Kid Francescoli first developed a repertoire marked by intimate songwriting and synthetic arrangements, before broadening his palette with Lovers in 2008 and With Julia in 2013, an album created with singer Julia Minkin and focused on a more assertive interplay of voices. That phase moved Kid Francescoli toward a brighter pop in which keyboards, supple rhythms and airy melodies take greater prominence. Play Me Again (2017) continued this direction—between indie pop, electronic songcraft and disco or Balearic accents—while Sunset Blue (2021) established a more contemplative atmosphere without abandoning Kid Francescoli’s taste for danceable tracks and suspended vocal lines. On stage, Kid Francescoli brings this repertoire to festivals and venues dedicated to pop and electronic scenes, adapting his compositions to a more organic band format.