1. Bruno Blum is mostly known for his work in the reggae, Caribbean music, rock music and African musics fields, and works as a cartoon and comic book artist, illustrator, visual artist, photographer, video director, writer, journalist, music historian, interpreter and speaker.
Bruno Blum gradually embodied an adventurer-musician globe-trotter figure, a free-spirited, astute lyric writer and a remarkable guitar player, as well as a historian of English-speaking popular music, photographer and skilled graphic artist.
Bruno Blum has released several French songs albums in a wide variety of styles.
Bruno Blum is known, among other things, for his work with the press-acclaimed Asmara All Stars and on Serge Gainsbourg's two studio reggae albums, which he has produced new mixes of, as well as dub and deejay versions in 2003.
Bruno Blum released his own dub work, much of it done in Jamaica, on his Sophisticated Love album by Dub De Luxe.
Bruno Blum's abounding, dense world often includes a touch of humour, and his art complements his Jamaica, Nigeria and USA-inspired music.
Bruno Blum created Human Race Records, a vinyl record label in Jamaica.
Besides his extensive work as a lyric writer, Bruno Blum has completed a master's degree in music, musicology, creation and society and speaks worldwide on the history of reggae music, African musics and other rock and blues culture-related subjects as well as veganism.
Bruno Blum has published many cartoons, illustrations and comic strips in several of his books, in UK comic books and newspapers as well as a long list of French magazines, including Best, Actuel, L'Environnement Magazine, Panda Magazine and Hara-Kiri.
Bruno Blum has published illustrated travel books and many satiric cartoons.
Bruno Blum had opened offices in five countries as Tony Blum moved to Toronto in Canada, where his son joined him during the 1974 and 1975 summers.
Bruno Blum's father produced the first feature film by Jerome Savary Le boucher, la star et l'orpheline.
Bruno Blum got to meet and know his parents' colleagues and friends, including directors Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ridley Scott and actors such as Pierre Desproges and Jerry Lewis, but he was not interested in advertising.
Bruno Blum made the earliest known recording of a then unknown band, the Police, with a hand stereo recorder at London's Roxy Club on March 3,1977.
Bruno Blum was to be the first French journalist to write about the Pretenders, Devo, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Madness, Motorhead and the then-unknown Stray Cats, which he put up in his London squat as they first arrived from New York City.
Bruno Blum drew their original logo, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom's tattoo showing a drum set bearing his name.
Bruno Blum's Rock and Roll Comics book is a testimony of his rock artwork and photographs from this London phase.
Bruno Blum was a militant ecologist since the age of fourteen, and after discussing the matter with Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde, he went vegetarian like her, a theme he would later sing about in his songs "Clementine Is a Vegan" and "Les Andouilles" and write much about in his animalist, 2016 autobiography De Viandard a vegane.
Bruno Blum then became a DJ at the London Marquee Club as an occasional replacement for his girlfriend, DJ Mandy Hermitage.
Bruno Blum came back to live in Paris after a busking episode in Nice in the summer of 1982 with Nice-born photographer Youri Lenquette on second guitar.
Bruno Blum then recorded a few demos of his compositions in 1986 with a five-piece version of Les Amours not including the vocal group.
Bruno Blum became the first French musician to have played, produced and released a dub record.
In 1990 Bruno Blum played onstage with Willy DeVille and joined Bo Diddley live at Le Casino de Paris.
In 2011 Bruno Blum translated Kim Gottlieb-Walker's Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae photo book to which director Cameron Crowe contributed.
Bruno Blum played several shows with his new vegan group Cabaret Vegane formed in 2015, featuring young female singer Gojy Gojy, who stars in the Clementine est vegane video, to which artists Mandryka, Pascal Le Gras and Invader contributed.
Bruno Blum translated three books that year: Roger Steffens' definitive Bob Marley biography, Norman Mailer's Hipster, street artist Invader's Invasion Los Angeles for which he wrote a four-page introduction.
Bruno Blum contributed to several of his fellow artist friend Invader's books in the following decade.
Bruno Blum translated bluesman Robert Johnson's award-winning biography Up Jumped the Devil in 2020.
Bruno Blum published two vegan humor, cartoon books, showing an ability to deal with entirely different subjects.
In 2023 Bruno Blum was sued by the French Hunters National Federation president Willy Schraen for a caricature published in his satirical cartoon book Humour Vegane Extremiste, resulting in a trial won by the artist.