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Lou Lesage
12+ albums
frenchGarage Rockindie popgarage popfemale vocalists
about
Lou Lesage is the daughter of Pierre Emery and Gil Lesage (from cult French rock band Ultra Orange). A singer and actress since the age of 18, Lou grew up listening to the family record collection, including the holy trinity (Stones, Velvet Underground, Stooges), the albums recorded by her father (Cherokees, Suspense) and those by Ultra Orange - whom notably composed the first album of actress Emmanuelle Seigner. As time passed, Pierre started to write songs and lyrics with the enamoured regard of a father, whose musical sensibility still dreamt of America. It’s not surprise that, after having recorded in her Parisian house, Lou left for Nashville - to a studio often used by Jack White… - in order to record vocals and mix the future album. A taster comes in the form a first 4 tracks ep (out in January 2011), smartly decked out in black and yellow - the colour of a Warholian banana -. When she sings, Lou Lesage has both the fragility of Cat Power and the electricity of Alisson Mosshart, two of her biggest influences. A song like Forgotten Child flirts with a certain climatic evanescence, while other tracks on the EP (such as the well named Dirty Looks) are of a more electric bent, evoking a brunette Blondie. Now known as a muse of the Parisian rock scene, as well as for her famously sulky pouting in the hit film Lol, Lou's surname may mean 'good girl' in French, but that doesn't mean she has to be one. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA Licens
