Woodkid

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Woodkid (born March 16, 1983 in Lyon ; real name Yoann Lemoine ) is a French musician and director who is under contract with the French record label Green United Music , founded in 2007 . Woodkids music can be assigned to the genres indie and rock. As a director, he shot the music videos for the songs Faut-il, faut-il pas? (2009) by Nolwenn Leroy , Teenage Dream (2010) by Katy Perry , Back to December (2010) by Taylor Swift and Born to Die (2011) by Lana Del Rey .

The single Iron was used in 2011 for the trailer of Assassin's Creed: Revelations . The chief designer of Dior Homme and Kris van Assche let himself in late 2011 for his designs of the held in black and white Iron - music video inspired, called the Dior -collection Autumn / Winter 2012-13 Men's A Soldier on My Own and chose Iron as Background music for the collection's fashion show at the end of January 2012 in Paris .

In the play Das Duell , which premiered on March 27, 2013 at the Volksbühne Berlin , the director Frank Castorf used Iron as background for a scene.

In 2013 Run Boy Run was used for the first trailer for Techland's computer game Dying Light and by Vodafone in a commercial; it is also the theme music for the Sat.1 / ProSieben show Got to Dance . In 2014, Ubisoft used its music again and used the title The Golden Age in a trailer for Assassin's Creed Unity .

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US FR FR
2013 The Golden Age
Green United 		DE8th
gold
gold

(25 weeks)DE 		AT13 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH4th
gold
gold

(36 weeks)CH 		UK38 (2 weeks)
UK 		US133 (1 week)
US 		FR2 (106 weeks)
FR
First published: March 15, 2013
Sales: + 110,000

Awards

  • 2009: Cannes Lions Advertising Festival: 'Tiji' - Silver in the Best Film category
  • 2010: Eurobest Advertising Festival: 'Aides Graffiti' - Bronze in the Best Film category
  • 2010: Cannes Lions Advertising Festival: 'Aides Graffiti' - Bronze (2) in the Cyber ​​category
  • 2010: Cannes Lions Advertising Festival: 'Aides Graffiti' - Gold (2) in the category Best Film Viral
  • 2012: UK Music Video Awards: Lana Del Rey - Born to Die - Best Pop - International (his video for Del Rey's song Blue Jeans was nominated in the same category)

Web links

Commons : Woodkid  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Woodkid, âge tendre et tete de bois. On: www.lesinrocks.com, September 26, 2012
  2. ↑ http://www.myspace.com/woodkid
  3. ^ Rencontre avec Nolwenn et son Cheshire Cat ( French ) ELLE. December 4, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Taylor Swift: 'Back To December' Video Premiere! ( English ) January 13, 2011. Retrieved November 2, 2012.
  5. ↑ WOODKID - General Visionär ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , vangardist.com, November 2, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vangardist.com
  6. ↑ Woodkid sets the Dior Homme Winter Collection to music ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , modeblock.com, April 6, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.modeblock.com
personal data
SURNAME Woodkid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemoine, Yoann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French musician and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , France