Avril (French musician)
Fred Avril Magnon is a French composer based in Montmartre, Paris.
As a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, he won international praise for two albums that showed a strong link with cinema.
Biography
Avril got his start in film music in 2008 with Hong-Kong acclaimed director Johnnie To. His quasi-musical Man Jeuk's soundtrack was nominated at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, the film being a box-office hit in China.Fred Avril won the Stockholm Music Award with Swedish film Sound of Noise about "sonic bombing". He then composed the score for the indie feature "The Lifeguard" with Kristen Bell, that premiered in Sundance.
Other projects featured singers Mick Harvey and late Christophe (singer). He co-composed with Marianne Elise the song in French box-office success Connasse, Princesse des cœurs introducing Camille Cottin.
In 2018, he composed the main theme for The Hook Up Plan. The music was uploaded by fans on YouTube and was streamed more than 5 million times throughout the world before being released by Bertelsmann Music Group.
Avril also writes orchestral music, such as I Am Not an Easy Man.
He won the Emile Award for Best Soundtrack for an Animated Series with adult manga series Lastman.
Discography
Personal albums
Now It's Spring That Horse Must Be Starving- ''Members Only''
Original soundtracks
Sparrow Sound of Noise Les Bêtises Cine Music Club Connasse, Princesse des Coeurs Lastman I Am Not an Easy Man Pearl Qui m'aime me suive- ''Plan Coeur''
Other records
Hollywood mon amour- Nouvelle Vague Album Bande à part arrangement and production
- Temposhark Invisible Ink Remix
- Olga Kouklaki, I U Need arrangement and production
- Stephan Eicher, L'Envolée composition and production p