CharlElie Couture

A multi-disciplinary French artist, CharlÉlie Couture (born February 26, 1956 in Nancy, France) moves from photography to song and from novels to painting and drawing with equal ease, distinguishing himself in French-language songwriting with his rock poetry-influenced style. Poèmes Rock is the title of the album that revealed the artist in 1981. Subsequently, Tom Novembre's brother, the first French singer to be signed by the Island Records label, diversified his style between chanson ("Comme un avion sans ailes" in 1981), film music(Tchao Pantin in 1983), rock, blues, reggae and electro. The diptych Solo Boys (1988) and Solo Girls (1989) are convincing examples. CharlÉlie Couture moved to Australia, then to Chicago and New York, where he opened a gallery-studio, but continued to record albums on a regular basis: Melbourne Aussie (1990), Victoria Spirit (1991), Casque Nu (1997), Double Vue (2004), New YorCoeur (2006) and Fort Rêveur (2011). In 2014, he released the album ImMortel, produced by Benjamin Biolay. Then, between 2016, he locked himself away in Dockside Studios in Lafayette, Louisiana, with local musicians. He emerged with an album logically named Lafayette. Between 2019 and 2020, he puts the finishing touches to two new releases: Même Pas Sommeil and Trésors Cachés et Perles Rares (made up of re-orchestrated old tracks). Extending the concept of the latter opus, he records Quelques Essentielles, featuring nine old titles with re-orchestrations, plus four previously unreleased tracks. In 2024, CharlÉlie Couture, now signed to Pias, released Contre Toi (No. 124 in France), led by the title track.