Axel Bauer

Live à Ferber is a live album released in June 2017 recorded live at the Ferber Studio in Paris. This album includes some of his greatest hits started in 2013 . The videos of the recordings are visible as episodes on the artist's YouTube channel.

At the same time, he left Universal and became producer. In 2010, he participated in the opera rock Dracula composing the single "in trance ... ylvanie" with singer of BB Brunes, Adrien Gallo. End of 2010, again with Zazie, they perform a new duet: Double Axel.

In 2006 he signed with Polydor, worked on "Bad Cowboy" produced by Dan presley (The Breeders). With Franck Pilant on guitar with whom he started the album's composition and pre-production, Drummer Geoff Dugmore (Killing Joke, Johnny Hallyday), bassist and former boxer Gabriel Barry. The album was recorded live in Ireland at Grouse Lodge Studios. For the video of "Tu me Tues" Axel, Gabriel and Franck incarnated a band of urban cowboys penetrating the city on horseback in search of their alter egos.

À ma place" was not included on Zazie's studio album, but only on Bauer's Personne n'est parfait on which it appears in an extended version, then on Bauer's best of La Désintégrale (2003).

In 2003, the live version performed during Zazie's tour was added on her live album Ze live!! and in the collector edition of La Désintégrale. The song, as well as the music video (on the DVD), were also available on Zazie's 2008 greatest hits Zest of.

In 2003 released his first best of "La désintégrale".

Invited by Zazie, he joined the troupe of the "Restos du cœur". Triumphing at the Olympia in 2002, he created the surprise entering the stage with a string orchestra and electro-rock musicians.

Mid 2000s he identified a real need to put artists at the center of negotiations with producers. Together with Kent, Issam Krimi and Suzanne Combeaud they set up the GAM (the guild of the artists of the music) of which he is made president. Many artists respond to the call. He then participate actively in the Lescure and Pheline missions and the GAM will be a signatory of the Schwartz agreements. In 2015, the GAM is at the initiative of a worldwide organisation called IAO (International artist organisation)

Simple Mortel, his third album was released in 1998. However, the record company finds the album out of format, the songs are too long for the radio and although having received a good reception in the press, they have decided to ignore it.

In 1991 he had a son, Jim Bauer, with the singer and actress Nathalie Cardone. He wrote a biography " Maintenant tu es seul".

After a few years spent in the UK, Axel left EMI, returned to Paris and signed with Mercury (Universal). In 1990, "Sentinelles" was released, produced by Ben Rogan (Polnareff, Daho, Sade). An unpolished blending of disparate genres such as rock or electro with multiple collaborations whose song "Éteins la lumière" will become a success (gold record). The catchy, sharp and melodic guitar riff on the song remains a classic. Axel then leaves on the road for a long tour with excellent musicians such as bassist Phil Spalding, on guitar Pierre Jaconelli or drummer Mathieu Rabaté .... The audience discovers the singer but also the guitarist emeritus that he has become.

Having become a star at a young age, Axel feels the need to refocus and find himself. In the early 1990s, with his friend and bassist Laurent Griffon, they went to the Sahara desert to experience an ascetic life. an immersion in the Tuaregs of the Ténéré world. In the school of life, lost in the immensity of the desert, he realizes that there is nothing in this world where one is very small.

The following year, he became the first French artist to sign at EMI international. He settled in London and began recording his debut album with director Dave Bascomb, producer of Tears for Fears. The album "Les nouveaux Seigneurs" was released in 1987.

He submitted his demos to Philippe Missir, artistic director of Mondio Music, who accompanied him in the elaboration of the "Cargo" demo on which Michel Eli, the director of the label immediately signed Bauer. The song came out at the end of 1983 with Manu Katche on drums and Bauer on guitar. Michel Eli, who wrote the lyrics, was inspired by film Pépé le Moko with Jean Gabin. The cover of the single refers to the poster of the film Querelle by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "Cargo" sold more than a million copies, earning a Gold record for Bauer.

Axel Bauer (born April 7, 1961) is a French singer, composer, guitarist, and actor, born in Paris. A figure of the French rock scene, he was discovered in 1983 with the song "Cargo". Several times awarded a gold record, he has sold three million records and performed nearly 700 concerts in France and Europe.