Thomas Fersen

Thomas Fersen (born 4 January 1963 in Paris) is a French singer-songwriter.

Thomas Fersen
Background information
Born (1963-01-04) 4 January 1963
OriginParis, France
Occupation(s)singer-songwriter

During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres. He released his first album in 1993; it gave him immediate name recognition.

Fersen is an accomplished poet who regularly plays with language, using puns, rich rhymes, symbols and images taken from the realms of plants (vegetables and fruits) and animals (birds and various beasts) to tell stories or original fables, to recreate moments from daily life, impressions and sentiments, and also the dreams of ordinary people and their failings and faults. His deep and gravelly smoker's voice gives a particular tone to his songs, which belong to different musical styles depending on the album (rock, folk-rock or jazz and blues).

The stage name "Thomas Fersen" comes from the names of Thomas Boyd, a Scottish footballer, and Hans-Axel de Fersen, Marie-Antoinette's Swedish lover.

He was one of the first singers to join the label Tôt ou tard.

Discography
  • 1993 – Le Bal des oiseaux (The Ball of the Birds)
  • 1995 – Les Ronds de carotte (The Slices of Carrot)
  • 1997 – Le Jour du poisson (The Day of the Fish)
  • 1999 – Qu4tre (Four)
  • 2001 – Triplex (triple album live)
  • 2003 – Pièce montée des grands jours (Pièce montée for the Great Days)
  • 2004 – La Cigale des grands jours (La Cigale in the Great Days) (public recording at La Cigale; a DVD of the concert also exists)
  • 2005 – Le Pavillon des fous (The Insane Asylum)
  • 2007 – Gratte-moi la puce – Best of de poche (Scratch My Flea – Pocket-sized Best Of )
  • 2008 – Trois petits tours (Three Times Round)
  • 2011 – Je suis au paradis (I am in heaven)
  • 2013 - Thomas Fersen & The Ginger Accident
  • 2017 - Un coup de queue de vache
  • 2019 - C'est tout ce qu'il me reste

Other musical involvement
  • 2005 – on the Plutôt tôt Plutôt tard album by duos from the Tôt ou tard label, the songs "Escobar" with J. P. Nataf, "Le bouton" with Bumcello, and "La barmaid" with Jeanne Cherhal
  • 2006 – Cover of "Sacré géranium" by Dick Annegarn on the compilation Le Grand Dîner
gollark: This sort of thing makes natural languages quite annoying, but you can help by, well, not picking the most emotionally charged word which "technically matches".
gollark: If I say "that person is a criminal" you might very well have a worsened opinion of them, even if I know that all they actually did was jaywalking or something. It's technically not *false* to call them that but misleads.
gollark: Using a word which is technically right by a dictionary definition can be misleading because it has connotations which possible alternate choices of word don't.
gollark: They are important. Words aren't clear cut definitions like, say, mathematical objects, and the dictionary just points to some common uses.
gollark: Great!
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