Swiss author, composer, guitarist and performer Jean de Senarclens, also known as Sarclo or Sarcloret, was born in Paris on June 17, 1951. After moving to Yverdon-les-Bains in 1957, he grew up in Geneva and studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 1972 to 1980. At the same time, he turned his attention to music, performing his songs in bars in a genre somewhere between folk and rock, with a strong touch of humor. To distribute his records, he set up his own label, Côtes du Rhône Productions, and recorded a series of albums under the name Sarcloret, starting with the double album Les Plus Grand Succès de Sarcloret (1981), followed by Les Premiers Adieux de Sarcloret (1983) and Les Pulls de Ma Poule (1985). He shortened his pseudonym to Sarclo, under which he released his next albums Les Mots, C'Est Beau (1987), L'Amour, Comment Procéder (1990), Une Tristesse Bleue et Grise (live, 1992) and Sarclosolo (1993). After a series of concerts that introduced him to France and Quebec, he expanded his audience with an 80-concert tour supporting Renaud in 1996, including five nights at the Olympia in Paris. Already honored with the Prix Brassens in 1990, Sarclo received the Prix Miroir de la chanson francophone in 1999 and the Grand Prix de l'humour de Saint-Gervais in 2000. He collaborates with a number of musicians, including Daniel Mille, Denis Margadant, Marc Berthoumieux, Simon Gerber and Le Bel Hubert, and continues to record prolifically throughout the 2000s. Settled in France since 2009, he created the Théâtre Thénardier in Montreuil and signed the album Gueuler Partout Comme Un Putois (2012), followed by a double tribute to Bob Dylan on stage with Sarclo Sings Dylan (In French) (2018) and J'Ai Jamais Rien Compris à Dylan (2022), between which the acoustic collections J'Ai Jamais Été Aussi Vieux and J'Ai Jamais Été Aussi Jeune were released in 2022.
