Adèle Castillon


Adèle Castillon du Perron is a French singer and actress. She was the singer in the French pop duo Videoclub from 2018 until 2021. As an actress, she appeared in the French comedy film Sous le même toit, and the French thriller School's Out.
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Life and career

Early life

Castillon was born in Angers, France on 24 October 2001. She has two siblings. As a child, Castillon started making YouTube videos and had theatre training, though she did not consider that these two correlated with each other and did not intend to use YouTube for her career prospects. For the Dissemblances media, she made her first interview of the French actress Léa Seydoux. At the age of 15, with some friends, she interviewed the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India.
In 2017, she played Violette Hazan in the movie Sous le même toit directed by Dominique Farrugia.
In 2018, she played Clara in School's Out directed by Sébastien Marnier.

Group Videoclub

In 2018, Castillon met Matthieu Reynaud and formed Videoclub, over their shared love of 80s nostalgia. Their channel had amassed over 20,000 subscribers before posting anything, to the suspicion of YouTube. Due to Castillon's popularity on the site, their music quickly went viral there, as well as on TikTok and Spotify.
In 2019, in Milan, Adèle Castillon laid all her cards on the table to sing Amour plastique. The English singer Anna Calvi invited the group Videoclub to open her concert at Circolo Magnolia during Unaltrofestival. Noisyroad reported that Castillon expressed, "siamo ancora giovani, speriamo di crescere sempre di più", reminiscent of a Lewis Carroll tale where the cards walk. At the end of the slideshow, starting with Anna Calvi, the four cardinal points were inscribed on Adèle Castillon's petite robe noire : The Moon, The Sun, The Stars, and The Soul. These framed the Three of Swords Italian Tarot Card, which depicts three swords piercing a heart symbolizing the experience of heartbreak.
Back in Nantes, Castillon approached film director Sirine Mamoun to film her at the location where Amour plastique was shot by director Julie Reynaud. C'est drôle, the façade of the video club on Street Saint-Pierre began to age and fade like The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Castillon said: "L’écrire m’a permis de mieux me comprendre et d’exorciser tout ça."
Hand in hand, amidst emotional turmoil, Castillon helped a big red heart on legs to walk again, symbolizing healing and personal growth after betrayal in relationships. Between the Préfailles rocks and Rue des Roches grises close to Le Rocher d'Enfer, the archangel Gabrielle fell, becoming one of apostate demons of the warrior Adèle Crève-cœur.
On 31 March 2021, the group was dissolved, when Castillon and Reynaud ended their relationship.
In May 2021, before the release of their album Euphories, Videoclub announced the disbandment of the group and that they would each be pursuing solo projects.

Solo career

On 10 June 2022, after splitting from Videoclub, she released her first song "Impala".
On 7 April 2023, she released her second single called "Rêve".
On 16 June 2023, she released the single "Alabama", the song is her third single as an independent artist.
On 20 october 2023, Castillon launched her first album PRD: Pleasure Risk Dependency.
On 31 May 2024, Castillon released "Ce Soir", which features rapper Gazo.
On 24 July 2024, in Seine-Saint-Denis, Adèle Castillon served as a torchbearer, relaying the flame for the 2024 Summer Olympics. On the eve of the opening ceremony, she and Gazo invited the audience at Parc Georges Valbon to a free concert in La Courneuve.
In 2025, Castillon released her second album Crèvecoeur. 'Nothing but that'.
She is currently signed to Columbia Records.
In the summer of 2025, on the enchanting Grall stage, Adèle Castillon delivered her first performance at the biggest French festival: the Vieilles Charrues.
She said that her grandmother will be proud because she lives not far from the Brocéliande Forest, in the heart of rainy Central Brittany, where the festival took place. So, Adèle Castillon changed the lyrics of PRD to end with 'the Bretons'.
In Arthur Rimbaud's Charleville-Mézières, Adèle Castillon opened the Cabaret Vert Festival. Festival-goers recognized her typical silhouette, from her boots to her black sunglasses. For Lèche_vitrine_demo1.wav, Adèle Castillon played the clavier alongside Florian Robin. She transformed the audience into a giant choir. She noticed two teenagers, Lucida and Garance, by their cardboard signs. She invited them onto the Zanzibar stage to sing Impala together. Finally, Lylian Szpira delivered a drum solo causing a sensation.
On 29 January 2025, her name was written in giant red letters on Boulevard des Capucines in Paris for her first performance at the Olympia Hall.

Musical style and influences

Castillon's musical style draws inspiration from that of Billie Eilish.

Discography

TitleDetails
"Plaisir Risque Dépendance"
YearTitlePeak Chart PositionsAlbum
YearTitleFranceAlbum
2022Impala—Plaisir Risque Dépendance
2023Rêve—Plaisir Risque Dépendance
2023Alabama—Plaisir Risque Dépendance
2023C'est Drôle—Plaisir Risque Dépendance
2024Ce Soir 76Crèvecoeur EP 1
2025Je me demande —Crèvecoeur EP 2
2025It might never end —Crèvecoeur EP 2
2025Rien qu'ça —Crèvecoeur EP 2
2025Oh non :(—Crèvecoeur EP 2

Filmography

Music videos

Reference IMDb and her Youtube channel.
YearTitleDirectorFeaturingDOP
2022ImpalaAlice MoitiéMiléna Leblanc, Paul Mirabel
2023RêveAdèle CastillonCélestine Forget, Claire Beuret, Clémence Villechavrolle, Lola Bée, Lola Daniel, Mira Gouled, Nina Blanc-Francard, Tina RozenAndré Chemetoff
2023AlabamaFrancesco PetroniAminata Diagne, Loup Lélass, Claude Payen de Lapierre, Alice Lemonnier, Nana Kadidia, Jean-Désiré Augnet, Dave Nsaman OkebwanHugo Carlier
2023C'est DrôleSirine MamounPiano by Antoine Berquet
2023SensationsAntoine ChapusAminata Diagne, Loup Lélass, and the audience at Gaîté Lyrique, Paris on 26 October 2023
2024GabrielleJack LoweBen Coughlan
2024CrèvecoeurJosselin FaconAdèle Crève-cœur. Laura Passalacqua as Art Director
2024À la folieAdèle CastillonAminata Diagne as Art Director. Choreographer: Amel KhaiesAdrien Lallau
2024Ce SoirMario RoudilGazo

Personal life

Foreword: Notice from the album PRD is a piece composed by Benoît Heitz also known as Surkin. It is not a song but a recording of voices.
The introduction of each concert features a phone call from Castillon's father, Benoît Castillon Du Perron talking to his daughter in this note. He wrote a book over the course of ten years, titled Mourir avec la rivière.
Castillon disclosed in Paulette Grisoni's podcast "La leçon" that the couple had already separated prior to the breakup of the group Videoclub. She also described a difficult split, including her estrangement from the family of her ex-boyfriend and former partner, Matthieu Reynaud. Castillon shared the reason for the breakup on TikTok but deleted the videos a few days later.
Unlike her father, she appreciates dinosaurs. On her arm, there is a tattoo in shape of dinosaur with the caption: 'J'ai vraiment la grosse tête'. She also likes race cars.
She hates spiders: it is not directly her but Adèle Crève-cœur who is featured in the eponymous animated music video directed by Josselin Facon.
One night, she added another tattoo in English: 'I'm trying to figure out,' beneath her dinosaur tattoo. She doesn’t remember why she chose it. She will eventually remove it. That evening, she felt like she was in another world:
Like a Tibetan cat, "Adèle Castillon has already lived a thousand lives."
Either she grew up too fast, like the Disaster Girl, or she survived multiple medication overdoses, the "night, very late," in slow motion, bathed in the hypnotic bluish glow of her computer before heading to school. She gets help to wean herself off.
She rediscovers the desire to create the PRD triptych: Pleasure Risk Dependency.