SAM SAUVAGE (+ TWIN TOES)

‘Influenced by 80s rock and New Wave, the young artist from Lille is a huge hit’ – Le Soir

A striking face, a distinctive look, and a charisma that instantly wins you over.

A deep voice, delivering a uniqueness that is as magnetic as it is intimate. It slips into your ears, whether in quiet moments or amid the din. Sam Sauvage also has a generous mop of tousled hair and mind-blowing ideas. An unstoppable performer on stage (he’s playing a series of the label’s Pop Up gigs in Paris, four of which are already sold out), the accuracy of his interpretative intent, his lanky, Talking Heads-style movements and his bewildering naturalness are already winning people over. The twenty-four-year-old belongs to that instinctive generation that doesn’t hold back its impulses. A boundary-breaker, straddling the worlds of chanson, pop, electro and rock, this self-taught singer-songwriter, who grew up in Boulogne-sur-Mer, first plugged in a guitar as a teenager after discovering a Bob Dylan live performance on YouTube.

Although he listened to Bashung a great deal, Sam Sauvage did not allow himself to be confined by specific influences when building his vast modern vocabulary. He possesses a fluid, uninhibited sense of melody, intense, sensitive and authentic poetry, a keen eye for observation, and a taste for others : particularly for outsiders, night owls and lost dreamers. It is this openness towards humanity and society that shines through in ‘Les gens qui dansent (j’adore)’, the first single heralding an EP due out this spring. In it, Sam Sauvage takes stock of various behavioural and human traits, with fearless spoken word and a catchy nonchalance, a robotic swing that clashes with a western-style guitar, and tenderness tinged with an underlying melancholy. Selected for the upcoming line-up at the Chantier des Francofolies in La Rochelle, Sam Sauvage is well and truly determined to make his mark on the future.