1. Matthieu Chedid was born on 21 December 1971 and is a French multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter.
19 Facts About Matthieu Chedid
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Matthieu Chedid has performed in the 2005 stage musical Le soldat rose and is part of French-Malian band Lamomali.
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Matthieu Chedid's father Louis Chedid is a singer from a family of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, of Maronite and Greek Orthodox Christian background.
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Matthieu Chedid's brother Joseph "Selim" Chedid was born on in 1986 and is a French singer and a guitar and drums player.
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In 1978, at the age of six, Matthieu Chedid lent his voice to the chorus of his father's hit song T'as beau pas etre beau alongside older sister, Emilie.
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Matthieu Chedid has collaborated with a number of artists, both on stage and in the recording studio.
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Early into his solo career, Matthieu Chedid was the opening act for Texas concerts.
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Matthieu Chedid has recorded with NTM, Sinclair, Billy Ze Kick, Brigitte Fontaine, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Paradis, and Johnny Hallyday.
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Until 2008, Matthieu Chedid was in a relationship with French actress Audrey Tautou.
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Matthieu Chedid created -M- as means of overcoming his shyness on stage and as a way of distancing his work from that of his father and grandmother.
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Matthieu Chedid won his first Victoire de la Musique awards for Male Artist of the Year and Concert of the Year.
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Rumors circulated before the release of his 2009 studio album, Mister Mystere, that Matthieu Chedid had decided to drop the character -M- to record and perform under his given name.
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The music video for the first single, "Le Roi des ombres", showed Matthieu Chedid burning a tiny effigy of his alterego.
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Matthieu Chedid worked with Toumani Diabate and Sidiki Diabate on a collective album, Lamomali, released in March 2017 The album features many well regarded names from the world music scene, such as Philippe Jaroussky, Oxmo Puccino, Youssou N'Dour, Seu Jorge, and Fatoumata Diawara, lending a mesmeric world music flavour to it that celebrates cultural diversity and world peace.
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Matthieu Chedid is mostly known for his on-stage persona -M- whose signature hairstyle is reminiscent of the letter M and was initially achieved using hair wax.
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In promotional material and music videos for his 2009 album Mister Mystere, Matthieu Chedid is seen with natural hair instead of the signature M-shaped hairstyle.
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The lyrics of some of the songs, and the music video of Le Roi des Ombres ending with Matthieu Chedid burning a tiny effigy of the -M- character, led to speculation about whether he would abandon his alter ego.
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Matthieu Chedid eventually kept performing the character, showing his natural hair or wearing M-shaped wigs or helmets.
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Matthieu Chedid holds the gold place in number of Victoires de la Musique awards, with 13 awards.