Biography
Came to France at the age of
6, with his danish parents who wanted to live downsouth
in Gagny, suburb to Paris.
ayed drums listening to pop and rock music. At he age of 12 he discovered his
abilities to create his own songs and picked up the guitar and keyboards in
order to compose and play melodies in his first band .
At 14 Emmanuel learned him many chords and pushed him to sing lead, and many
local people already pointed out to Chris he had a unique voice, but he won't
be a completed leadsinger before a few years later, once he'd found more vocal
technique, and self-confidence. At 20 he moved back to Denmark to play guitar
in a band for 4 years, and then he returned to Paris to form his own band,
Stillico.
Beside music he's fascinated by all european languages, and his musical ear
gets him to speak fluently french, but also english and...swedish ( nobody
knows why exactly swedish, strange choice for a dane ). He's been a freelance
translator, and has begun learning other languages... but those days are over
and now he prefers to sing them.
He composes new songs everyday(every week) and eventually records them alone
playing several instruments, and shows his favourite ones to the entire band,
and then the whole team arrange the music, the others compose their own parts,
which is elements from intros to solos, through breaks.
The lyrics in the songs, whenever they're in english, danish or french, depend
on him alone. He doesn't believe there's any rule in pop & rock music,
and thinks songs can be in any tongue. As he's got leftover ideas, he compose
for other pop/rock artists in France & Denmark, and once in a while record
instrumentals for short-movies.
Always creating, he's the source of Stillico's music and his voice gives the
colour of their sound but as he says
" I'm no leader, just the blond singer in a french band - and
my ideas, they only become 'songs' when working on them alltogether with the
others ". His charisma and his love for music inspires the whole
band though, and his arrogant and self-ironic stage attitude brings up rock
clichés in an already fun and energic live show. |
