BB Brunes

BB Brunes
The band at the festival des Terre-Neuvas in 2007
Background information
Origin	Paris, France
Genres	Pop rock, garage rock revival
Years active	Since 2006
Labels	Warner Music
Website	bbbrunes.fr
Members	Adrien Gallo Karim Réveillé Félix Hemmen Bérald Crambes

BB Brunes is a French rock band, part of the "new French rock scene" (la nouvelle scène rock française).

In 2000, Adrien Gallo, Karim Réveillé and Raphaël Delorme, childhood friends, formed the band "Hangover" with songs exclusively in English.

Some years later, Raphaël left the band at the moment when they were signing their first contract. The new lineup found a new guitarist, Félix Hemmen, who enjoyed their music. In 2007, the bassist Bérald Crambes joined the band.

In 2005 they participated at the Emergenza music festival in Paris until the final.

The band took the name BB Brunes, inspired by the name of the song "Initials BB" by Serge Gainsbourg and by Paris's boulevard Brune, where the band then did their rehearsals. The band's musical influences are punk and rock groups from the 1960s and 1970s as well as current groups such as The Strokes, Amy Winehouse, The Clash, David Bowie, Ray Charles and singers like Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Dutronc, etc. Their lyrics are mostly in French.

In 2009, the group won a Victoires de la musique in the category 'Group or artist stage revelation of the year'. The band is currently on hiatus, the lead singer released his debut solo album in November 2014.

Adrien Gallo (born 2 July 1989) is the lead vocalist of the band. He is a singer, songwriter and an actor. He is son of Jean-Pierre Gallo, director, producer and scriptwriter for French television and of Latifa Benaoudia of Algerian origin.

He has also recorded solo and wrote a number of songs, notably for the French musical comedy Dracula, l'amour plus fort que la mort notably En transe...ylvanie interpreted by Gregory Deck. He has also written Boxing Club for Alizée and Mi amor and La Marée for Vanessa Paradis and Playground and Exit for singer Sophie-Tith after her appearance in season 9 of Nouvelle Star in France. In 2014 he released his début album Gemini, in collaboration with Ella Waldmann, a friend since 2007. Monokini and Crocodile were promoted as singles from the album.