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'''Guillaume Emmanuel de Homem-Christo''' ({{IPA-fr|ɡi manɥɛl də ɔmɛm kʁisto}}; born 8 February 1974)<ref name="MusiqueVol.1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060410194554/http://www.daft-musique.com/ Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 official website]. [[Web archiving|Archived]] from 10 April 2006.</ref> is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and film director, best known for being one half of the [[French house|French house music]] duo [[Daft Punk]], along with [[Thomas Bangalter]]. He has also produced several works from his record label [[Crydamoure]] with label co-owner Éric Chedeville |
'''Guillaume Emmanuel de Homem-Christo''' ({{IPA-fr|ɡi manɥɛl də ɔmɛm kʁisto}}; born 8 February 1974)<ref name="MusiqueVol.1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060410194554/http://www.daft-musique.com/ Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 official website]. [[Web archiving|Archived]] from 10 April 2006.</ref> is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and film director, best known for being one half of the [[French house|French house music]] duo [[Daft Punk]], along with [[Thomas Bangalter]]. He has also produced several works from his record label [[Crydamoure]] with label co-owner Éric Chedeville. |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Guillaume Emmanuel de Homem-Christo |
Born | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | 8 February 1974
Origin | Paris, France |
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Years active | 1992–present |
Labels | Crydamoure |
Guillaume Emmanuel de Homem-Christo (French pronunciation: [ɡi manɥɛl də ɔmɛm kʁisto]; born 8 February 1974)[1] is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and film director, best known for being one half of the French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas Bangalter. He has also produced several works from his record label Crydamoure with label co-owner Éric Chedeville.
Early life
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo was born in the Paris, France suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.[2] He is of Portuguese descent: his great-grandfather was the writer and fascism advocate Homem Cristo Filho,[3] whose father was the military figure Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo.[4]
In a video interview, Homem-Christo stated that he was given a toy guitar and keyboard at around seven years of age.[5] He was eventually given an electric guitar at age 14. He has also stated that he uses a guitar when writing music.[6]
Career
Homem-Christo met Thomas Bangalter when they were attending the Lycée Carnot school together in 1987. It was there that they discovered their mutual fascination for films and music of the 1960s and 70s, "very basic cult teenager things, from Easy Rider to the Velvet Underground".[7] The two and Laurent Brancowitz eventually joined to form an indie rock trio called Darlin', in which Homem-Christo performed guitar. Bangalter felt that "It was still maybe more a teenage thing at that time. It's like, you know, everybody wants to be in a band."[7] A negative review referred to their music as "a daft punky thrash",[8] which inspired Bangalter and Homem-Christo's new name.[citation needed] The two soon became interested in electronic dance music after going to a club in 1992. Homem-Christo is credited for designing the Daft Punk logo in the liner notes of Homework.
Regarding Daft Punk's creative process and working with Bangalter, Homem-Christo commented that "he's much more of the tech guy than I am. We did everything together. But I have more distance". He added, "I'm more critical of everything we do. We're two-halves of one solid combination. There's balance there – completeness between us, yeah".[9]
Homem-Christo is also a co-founder of the group Le Knight Club, along with Éric Chedeville from Pumpking Records. They are the founders of the record label Crydamoure, named after a variation of the French phrase "cri d'amour" or "cry of love" in English. Crydamoure also published works by Homem-Christo's brother Paul de Homem-Christo, under the name Play Paul.[10] In regards to Crydamoure, Guy-Manuel stated:
Myself and Thomas have the same tastes in music. When I make records for Crydamoure it's a different style than what may end up as Daft Punk music. I know what Thomas likes, and he knows what I like. Crydamoure is not so production oriented, even if it's not too far from Daft Punk. The Daft Punk material is more orchestrated and slightly different. I may be working on a sample for Crydamoure, and maybe no one else can hear the difference, but we know. It's very precise.[11]
He produced Sébastien Tellier's 2008 album titled Sexuality.[12] In 2010, Homem-Christo co-produced Kavinsky's Nightcall EP with SebastiAn.[13] In 2012, he was featured on Tellier's album My God Is Blue, producing the track "My Poseidon".
Personal life
Both Homem-Christo and Bangalter have expressed that they have very little or no interest in being celebrities or discussing their private lives.[14] In the rare events of interviews, Bangalter does the majority of talking to journalists. With regard to working and collaborating with other artists, he sees it as a matter of timing and creativity, rather than fame and opportunity. He once stated in an interview:
Well that depends on what we want to do at the time. It depends. I don't know. Yeah, exactly. There are all these considerations you're talking about. But yes, it just depends on the moment you're asked. If you feel it and if you feel something creatively interesting then it's possible. For everything that we're asked to do, if we have a creative answer and think we might bring something to a project then we can do it. But if we don't have any ideas or don't think we can push the envelope by creating with anybody... Well, if you take Sébastien Tellier for example it is one of the few collaborations where I had the idea that I could do something and bring something to it. But it's all about the moment and the situation. When it feels right to us, when we feel it we do it, and when we have the time. There's so many factors.[15]
Homem-Christo has two children.[16]
Discography
- Production credits
- Waves (2000)
- Waves II (2003)
- Sexuality by Sébastien Tellier (2008)
- OutRun by Kavinsky (2013)
- Rest by Charlotte Gainsbourg (2017)
- My Dear Melancholy, by The Weeknd (2018)
References
- ^ Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 official website. Archived from 10 April 2006.
- ^ Perron, Erwan, and Gancel, Alice (7 April 2013). "Daft Punk, interview-fleuve pour la sortie de Random Access Memories". Telerama (in French). telerama.fr. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Weiner, Jonah (21 May 2013). "Daft Punk: All Hail Our Robot Overlords". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- ^ "Bas les casques – Le vrai visage de Daft Punk".
- ^ Daft Punk interview in Japan (1/2) Retrieved on 14 November 2012.
- ^ Bryan Reesman, Daft Punk interview Archived 10 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine mixonline.com. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
- ^ a b Matthew Collin, "Do You Think You Can Hide From Stardom?" Mixmag (August 1997) (archived at techno.de)
- ^ "Review of Shimmies in Super 8." Melody Maker Apr.-May 1993: n. pag. Web. 6 April 2013.
- ^ Blurt, "Encounters of the Daft Kind" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (September 2008) pgs. 28–29. Retrieved on 26 July 2009.
- ^ "Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo revives Le Knight Club, listen to new song "The Fight"". 29 May 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ "Robopop". remixmag.com.
- ^ "Q&A with Sebastien Tellier | Anthem Magazine". anthemmagazine.com. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ "Nightcall EP, by Kavinsky". Kavinsky. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ "Daft Punk: Who are those masked men?". canoe.ca. 12 April 1997. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2007.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Robinson, Peter (27 November 2007). "Daft Punk Interview". popjustice.
- ^ Baron, Zach (May 2013). "Daft Punk Is (Finally!) Playing at Our House". GQ. 83 (5): 76–82.
the two men are seated, sans disguises, outside at a café [...] They're talking about their kids (two each)
External links
- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo discography at Discogs