Eddy Gronfier

Eddy Gronfier (b. France, 1970) started as a local radio host on Fun Radio Annecy in 1985, then NRJ Chambéry. In 1988, he moved to Paris to become the host of a national radio in primetime, this time on Fun Radio until 1990 alongside other hosts like Manu Levy, Max (radio host)|Max or Difool.

He hosted live shows, like La Plus Grande Discothèque du Monde[1] at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy with Alexandre Debanne.

On an international level, his show "Maxi Fun" was broadcast in Japan on FM802, and he was part of the opening of Fun Radio (Romania)|Fun Radio in Romania which saw the day of light after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

He then moved on to Maxximum, a young dance radio, where he met key figures like Joachim Garraud, Fred Rister or Cocto. In 1992, he hosted "The Morning Show" with Caroline Davigny and "M40 rock" on M40 (radio)|M40 until 1994.

From 1994 to 1997, he was production manager on RTL2, and created simultaneously his production company "Proedit". He created the coverage for Skyrock's "priorite a la musique" and the show "Monstres" with Manu Levy and Francois Meunier. He also created the coverage for Radio Scoop, the one for "Zegut" on RTL " and "Charly et Lulu" on RTL2.

In 1997, he is music director of "Proedit" ( production and publishing company ). He produced some music for television like Fox Kids which he was the voice of the show "Roger".Several music credits for Eurosport, documentaries for La Cinquième and many advertisements (e.g. Tele2,[2] Axe,[3] Carambar[4]).

In 2000, Eddy meets Thomas Pieds, a young French director, with whom he created the production company Minority and the group One-T which they signed with Polydor. Eddy is the music director of the company Minority. They released a trilogy of hits on the album The One-T ODC[5] such as "Music Is the One-T ODC" or"The Magic Key (song)" which would be the number 2 most played title on air in Europe during the summer of 2003. They would get Gold records[6] in France and Germany.

His music is played in several movies like "3 Zéros" "Neuilly sa mère" or "L’École pour tous" and has been the flagship music of the show "D & Co" on M6 for several years.[7] One-t did the opened for Alizée at the Olympia (Paris) in 2003 and was nominated at the MTV Europe Music Awards[8] that year for best French act. Over the years, Eddy produced several remixes for artists like Mylène Farmer, Axelle Red, Hélène Segara, Laura Pausini, Melissa Mars, Doc Gyneco or Nâdiya.

Now based in Los Angeles 2009, he worked with his own US company "One-T Music Publishing "on albums and singles for artists such as Common featuring John Legend "Rain", Bob Sinclar " Feel the vibe", Joachim Garraud "Invasion", Perry Farrell, Kim Sozzi or Paul Ryder.

Discography

Albums
  • One-T ODC (2003) with Universal Polydor
  • One-T's ABC (2007) with Universal Polydor

Singles

Remixes
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References
  1. dancemachine2.skyrock
  5. One-T
  6. SNEP Archived 2010-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Compilation D&Co
  8. MTV Europe Music Awards
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