Sébastien Tellier

Sébastien Tellier at the French music festival Printemps de Bourges (2008)

Sébastien Tellier (born February 22, 1975 in Le Plessis-Bouchard ) is a French singer and songwriter.

history

His first album, L'incroyable vérité , was released in 2001. Tellier went on tour with Air to promote his album. The song Fantino was used by Sofia Coppola for the soundtrack of Lost in Translation . The next album was Politics in 2005 . Politics' most famous song was La Ritournelle , which featured Nigerian drummer Tony Allen , who later worked with Damon Albarn on The Good, the Bad & the Queen . The album Sessions (2006) was released for the English market under the title Universe, slightly modified. His fourth studio album Sexuality was produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk . The song "L'amour et la violence" was used in 2011 as background music for a Caritas commercial.

Eurovision Song Contest 2008

On March 7, 2008, Bruno Berberes , head of the EBU delegation in France , announced that Tellier would represent France with the song Divine at the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which took place on May 24, 2008 in Belgrade . France took part for the first time with an almost entirely English-language song, which aroused internal criticism. In the final of the ESC, Tellier finally finished 18th in the victory of the Russian Dima Bilan . Tellier said of the song that it was a tribute "to the Beach Boys and the Juicy Fruits" (from the movie The Phantom in Paradise , 1974).

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		FR	CH
2004	Politics	FR123 (4 weeks) FR	-
2006	Sessions	FR192 (2 weeks) FR	-
2008	Sexuality	FR33 (15 weeks) FR	-
2012	My god is blue	FR17 (7 weeks) FR	-
2013	Confection	FR52 (3 weeks) FR	-
2014	L'aventura	FR53 (2 weeks) FR	-
2020	Domesticated	FR117 (3 weeks) FR	CH85 (1 week) CH

More albums

• 2001: L'incroyable vérité
• 2006: Universe

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	FR	DE
2005	La ritournelle	UK66 (2 weeks) UK	-	-
2009	Fingers of Steel	-	FR89 (3 weeks) FR	-
2011	L'amour et la violence	-	-	DE97 (2 weeks) DE
2012	Cochon Ville	-	FR69 (3 weeks) FR	-
2013	L'amour naissant	-	FR154 (2 weeks) FR	-
2014	La ritournelle	-	FR167 (2 weeks) FR	-

supporting documents

1. ^ France for the first time with an English song at the "Grand Prix" ( Memento from April 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - AFP report from April 16, 2008
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR DE CH UK

Web links

• Sébastien Tellier at Discogs (English)
• Sébastien Tellier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sébastien Tellier at laut.de