Born in Saint-Étienne, Bernard Lavilliers has always wanted to move and travel the world. A passionate fan of Léo Ferré and world music, he is committed to the oppressed and the music of the South.
He's taken millions of French speakers to jungles where the worst beasts are human, introduced them to poisonous girls in hotels on the other side of the world, and even taken them to antipodes on the Paris ring road or in sub-prefecture parking lots...
For Bernard Lavilliers is also a devourer of words, dazzled by the power of a language whose spells and powers he understood at an early age. A language he savors as much as an author as a performer, bringing the alliance of poetry and popular culture to an all-time high.
