- Album list
- Singer Intro
Stuntman, whose real name is Alexandre Longo, is a French singer and singer-songwriter.
Career
Descendant of a family of Italian immigrants, Cascadeur comes from the city of Metz, Lorraine. He started playing the piano at the age of 8. His parents both play music: his oboe father and his piano mother2.
He began to make himself known to the general public by winning the 2008 CQFD prize organized by Les Inrockuptibles magazine.
His stage character is inspired by a biker figurine he owned child3. The character of Stuntman wears a combination of biker with a white helmet adorned with a red star, and his face is concealed under a luchador mask4. His pseudonym was inspired by some of his friends who showed him the vocal and musical risks he took in his compositions3.
'The live: Stuntman. His shrill voice recalls Anthony Hegarty's, he hides his face behind a mask, and his music is hovering. '
- Télérama 3192, March 16th, 2011 p.65.
On March 17, 2011 is released a first track, Into the Wild, a second the next day Memories. Then will release a piece a day until March 28, 2011, date of release of his first album The Human Octopus. A first version of this album, released in 2005 and produced by Cascadeur himself, included the same titles in a piano-voice formula less elaborate than that of 20112.
Cascadeur was part of the selection of ten artists revelations of the 2011 Constantine Prize. Chaired by Gaëtan Roussel on October 17, 2011 at the Olympia, the prize was won by Selah Sue. The show aired on France Inter on October 24, on France 2 on October 28 and on France 4 on November 9.
His piece Walker is used at the end of each episode of the series of France 2 Clash aired in May 2012. This same piece is used at the end of episode 5 of the series of France 2 Chérif broadcast in October 2013. From from March 2013, the piece Meaning (Choral version) accompanies an advertisement for chocolate Nestle7.
His second album Ghost Surfer, featuring sixteen titles, was released in 2014.
He won the Victoire de la musique for the electronic / dance music album on February 13, 2015.
He also composed the original music of the feature films Le Combat Ordinaire (20148) - under the name of Alexandre Longo - and Amis Publics (2016) 9 - under the name of Cascadeur - as well as for the TV movie It was called Ruby de Laurent Tuel, with Mélanie Doutey, directed in 2016 and aired on France 2 on June 7, 2017, also under the name of Cascadeur.
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