Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is a French musician, producer and composer, born on 8 February 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is best known as one half of the French electronic duo Daft Punk, together with Thomas Bangalter. His parents ran an advertising agency in Paris, and on Sundays his father played rock records by Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. As a child he was given a toy guitar, and at fourteen an electric guitar, which he still uses when writing music.

Music and breakthrough

In 1987 he met Bangalter at the Lycée Carnot in Paris, where the two discovered their love of films and music from the 1960s and 1970s. Together with Laurent Brancowitz they first formed the indie rock band Darlin'. Daft Punk made Discovery (2001), Human After All (2005), the soundtrack of TRON: Legacy (2010) and Random Access Memories (2013), among others. With The Weeknd they made Starboy in 2016, their first number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2021 the duo announced its end.

Influence

Outside Daft Punk he founded the label Crydamoure with Bangalter and made music with Le Knight Club. He produced Sexuality by Sébastien Tellier, and later co-wrote songs for Charlotte Gainsbourg and Travis Scott. He himself prefers to stay out of the limelight. In this way he belongs to the producers who brought dance music and pop closer together.

Listening