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Les Fatals Picards | |
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Background information | |
Origin | France |
Genres | Rock, punk, pop, ska |
Years active | 1998 – present |
Labels | Warner Bros. Records |
Members | Laurent Honel Jean-Marc Sauvagnargues Paul Léger Yves Giraud |
Past members | Ivan Callot Regis Rodrigues Gilles Di Giovanni Eric Charpentier Olivier Delafosse Jonathan Bénisty |
Website | www |
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. [1]
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.
Year | Album | Peak positions | Certification |
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FRA [2] [3] | |||
2007 | Pamplemousse Mécanique | 24 | |
2009 | Le sens de la gravité | 17 | |
2011 | Coming out | 32 | |
2013 | Septième ciel | 28 | |
2016 | Fatals Picards Country Club | 11 | |
2019 | Espèces Menacées | ||
2022 | Le Syndrome de Göteborg | ||
Year | Album | Peak positions | Certification |
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FRA [2] | |||
2008 | Public | 60 | |
2011 | Fatals s/ scène | 52 | |
2015 | 14.11.14 |
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