One of the finest talents to emerge from the new wave of French chanson in the
1990s, and a mentor to the next, Thomas Fersen quickly won over the public with
his cleverly arranged, rhyming ritornellos. Indubitably Parisian, the author,
composer and performer was born on January 4, 1963, and grew up in a classical
environment with a piano-loving father. Introduced to rock music by his sisters,
the teenager received his first guitar at the age of fourteen and, with his
baccalaureate in hand, worked as a cable installer while honing a repertoire
that he unveiled in 1986 under the n...