Alex Beaupain, born in Besançon in 1974, is a singer-songwriter and film score composer. He acquired an early taste for culture, music, film, graphic novels and literature from his schoolteacher mother and railroader father, and during his childhood took piano lessons and sang in a children’s choir. He spent a year in Nancy before going to Paris to study at the Institute of Political Science. In the late 1990s, he wrote a number of musicals with a company called “Les Ressorts”.
He has composed scores and songs for a number of movies by filmmaker Christophe Honoré, including Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard (2002), In Paris (2006) and Love Songs (2007). He also wrote the score for Gilles Marchand’s Who Killed Bambi? His first album, entitled Garçon d’Honneur, was released by Naïve in 2005; it inspired the writing of Christophe Honoré’s musical Love Songs, whose screenplay was built around it. Beaupain’s latest album “33 Tours” was released in October 2008 and, like the score for Love Songs, was produced by Frédéric Lo. It features 12 songs; the clip for the first single, called “I Want To Go Home”, was made by young filmmaker Christophe Charrier.
Alex has recently composed an operetta, to be staged in 2012, and is currently working on a new album due for release in April 2011. The tour will be produced by ASTERIOS.
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