Thomas Fersen
A Parisian singer-songwriter, Thomas Fersen has written since 1993 songs populated by tender and farfelus characters, which have become classics of French song.
Biographie
Thomas Fersen was born on 4 January 1963 in Paris, a nursing mother and a bank employee father, in a family from Roanne. He received his first guitar at fourteen, played in punk-rock bands in the late 1970s, and published a first 45 laps, "Your Hero Jane", in 1988. His first album, "The Bird's Ball", appeared in 1993 and gave him immediate recognition. His songs tell stories and fables, often populated by animals, with work supported by games of words and rhymes. He has since published regularly, including "Fish Day", "Qu4tre", "Accomplicated Room of the Great Days" and "The Pavilion of the Crazy".
In 2025, he revisited his repertoire with the Trio SR9 in "The Queen's Choice".
Distinctions and benchmarks
1994: Victory of the revelation male varieties for "Le Bal des oiseaux" · 1998: Raoul-Bretton Prize; "Le Jour du poisson" (1997) is a gold record · 1999: Charles-Cros Academy Prize for "Qu4tre" · Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2003, officer in July 2010 · 2018: Grand Medal of the French song of the Académie française for all his songs
Discographie
"The Bird's Ball" (1993) · "The Carrot Rounds" (1995) · "The Fish Day" (1997) · "Qu4tre" (1999) · "The Great Days' Piece" (2003) · "The Crazy Ones' Pavilion" (2005) · "That's all I have left" (2019), the last album of original songs before 2025 · "The Queen's Choice" (28 February 2025), reinterpretations with the SR9 Trio, arrangements by Clement Ducol
On the Poster — Festivals
- 2027 — Tadoussac Song Festival: One of the first two names announced in the 2027 edition — See the festival entry
