Thomas Fersen

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Thomas Fersen

Born	January 4, 1963 (1963-01-04) (age 45) Paris, France
Occupation	singer, songwriter

Thomas Fersen (b. 4 January 1963, Paris) is a French singer-songwriter.

During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres. He released his first album in 1993; it gave him immediate name recognition.

Fersen is an accomplished poet who enjoys playing with language, using puns, rich rhymes, symbols and images taken from the realms of plants (vegetables, fruits) and animals (birds and various beasts) to tell stories or original fables, to recreate moments from daily life, impressions and sentiments, and also the dreams of ordinary people and their failings and faults. His deep and gravelly smoker's voice gives a particular tone to his songs, which belong to different musical styles depending on the album (rock, folk-rock or jazz and blues).

He was one of the first singers to join the label Tôt ou tard.

[edit] Discography

1993 - Le Bal des oiseaux (The Ball of the Birds)
1995 - Les Ronds de carotte (The Slices of Carrot)
1997 - Le Jour du poisson (The Day of the Fish)
1999 - Qu4tre (Four)
2001 - Triplex (triple album live)
2003 - Pièce montée des grands jours (Pièce montée for the Great Days)
2004 - La Cigale des grands jours (La Cigale in the Great Days) (public recording at La Cigale; a DVD of the concert also exists)
2005 - Le Pavillon des fous (The Insane Asylum)
2007 - Gratte-moi la puce - Best of de poche

[edit] Other musical involvement

2005 - on the Plutôt tôt Plutôt tard album by duos from the Tôt ou tard label, the songs Escobar with JP Nataf, Le bouton with Bumcello, and La barmaid with Jeanne Cherhal
2006 - Cover of Sacré géranium by Dick Annegarn on the compilation Le Grand Dîner