Yann Tiersen
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Yann Tiersen live in 2007
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Yann Pierre Tiersen |
| Born | 23 June 1970 |
| Origin | Brest, Brittany, France |
| Genres | Minimalist, avant-garde, post-rock, folktronica, bal-musette |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Piano, violin, accordion, guitar, toy piano, voice, and various others |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Sine Terra Firma, Ici, d'ailleurs..., EMI, Virgin, Mute, ANTI- |
| Associated acts | Claire Pichet, Dominique A, Françoiz Breut, Natacha Régnier, Shannon Wright, Christine Ott |
| Website | www |
Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
Tiersen is often mistaken for a composer of soundtracks, himself saying "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical background", but his real focus is on touring and studio albums which just happen to often be suitable for film. His most famous soundtrack for the film Amélie was primarily made up of tracks taken from his first three studio albums.
Yann Tiersen was born in Brest in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France, in 1970, into a French family of Belgian and Norwegian origins. He started learning piano at the age of four, violin at the age of six, and received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne. In the early 1980s when he was a teenager, he was influenced by the punk subculture, and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division. In 1983, at the age of 13, he broke his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band. Tiersen was then living in Rennes, home to the three-day music festival Rencontres Trans Musicales, held annually in December, which gave him the opportunity to see acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, and Suicide. A few years later, when his band broke up, Tiersen bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and started recording music solo with a synthesizer, a sampler, and a drum machine.
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