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Background information | |
Origin | France |
Genres | Rock, punk, pop, ska |
Years active | 1998 – present |
Labels | Warner Bros. Records |
Website | www |
Members | Laurent Honel Jean-Marc Sauvagnargues Paul Léger Yves Giroud |
Past members | Ivan Callot Regis Rodrigues Gilles Di Giovanni Eric Charpentier Olivier Delafosse Jonathan Bénisty |
Les Fatals Picards is a French rock/punk band, founded in 1996.
The Fatals Picards (meaning "the fatal [men] from Picardy") are best known to general audiences because they represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "L'Amour à la française" (Eng: "Love, French Style"), after winning the national selection.
The lyrics of the Fatals Picards are often of a parodic or humoristic character, though some songs, more particularly in the recent years, are more of a militant left-wing kind.
Some of their songs are satiric:
Musical influences range from straight rock to punk, chanson, etc.
Les Fatals Picards represented France in Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland with the bilingual French/English song "L'Amour à la française" (meaning "Love - the French way"). They finished 22nd overall in 24 finalists.