Phil Barney

Born on February 2, 1957 in Bône, Algeria, Philippe Baranès arrived in France at the age of ten in 1967. It was here that he first came into contact with music, taking music theory lessons and learning to play the violin and guitar. Gradually attracted to the practical side of music, he discovered percussion and drums, and formed a group at thirteen, Terre Neuve, then another at sixteen, Les Diam's. These early experiences enabled him to get used to the demands of composition and to perform his first concerts. Phil Barney was behind the creation of the free radio station Carbone 14 in 1981, and began DJing the following year for the discotheque Le Biblos. Gradually gaining recognition in the music world, he unveiled his first quietly successful tracks, 1900 Nineteen Hundred (1983) and Marre D'Être Seul (1984). The year 1986 saw his first popular success with his song "Un Enfant de Toi", a real hit in France, selling several hundred thousand copies. Phil Barney followed this up with his first album, Recto Verseau (1988), then Tour d'Ivoire (1990). His style, inspired by the long tradition of French chanson, seduces with the touching themes of his lyrics. Active and prolific, he composed a number of albums in the 1990s and appeared in films, starring in Ariel Zeitoun's Le Nombril du Monde (1993). Phil Barney returned to the limelight with a performance of his hit "Un Enfant de Toi" in 2002 with Marlène Duval, which reached No. 1 in the charts. In 2014, the arrival of the Stars 80 tour brought him to the forefront of the media, anticipating the release of his eighth studio album, Au Fil de L'Eau , in 2015.