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Santalova

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I started to compose at the age of eight. I had a piano when I was nine as my parents did not know if I would fancy piano lessons for long. Since then I have never stopped writing songs in both French and English.

I was part of a band for the first time at the age of 16. This was my metal teenage time. I had a great time with the band; we have even played on a live TV show in France... I am not really proud of this as it was in the afternoon and only elderly people were watching! Obivously we lost the competition. Imagine a French metal band at 4pm in the afternoon on the beach, overcrowded with children and elderly people only!

The thing is, I could not really be part of this band as a composer and songwriter; I had always wanted to play my own songs with a band as just piano and voice sounded too boring to me. After my HND, I decided to go to Huddersfield to study business and marketing. This is where I met Clement. We met at a birthday party in Ashenhurst Student Village. He was on a work placement at the University as a studio manager. We naturally started talking about music. I had always wanted to find someone who could help me and arrange my music the way I wanted it to be, the way it could sound and look like me.

We hooked up the week after so he could listen to my songs. Apparently he liked it because 10 days later he had already recorded the first version of 'toi/moi'... But lack of inspiration, indecision and busy times put a distance between us. Then Laurent showed up, coming from France as well. He enrolled at the University to follow the same course as Clément (music technology). Introducing a real instrument and someone new to our music brought some fresh ideas.

Since then we have recorded 'Dans tes yeux', 'Alex' and 'Feed me'. It takes time to get a song fully done as we always want to improve it and find new beats and arrangements. Plus we do not have the same schedules and do not live in the same cities.

We are planning on making a demo of 5/6 tracks and conquer labels this summer. To be continued...


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/03/2007
Band Members:

Stephanie:
Born in Guérande (France) on 26/07/1984.
She studied trade and marketing in Nantes (France) and then in Huddersfield (UK).
She now works as a caseworker for the Department for Transports in Leeds.
Plays the piano, the voice and owns a violin but she does not know how to use it.

Popin:
Born in St Nazaire (France) on 7/02/1984.
He recorded 'Feed me' with Stéphanie. This song was born during a drunken night thanks to his Yamaha keyboard.
He studied Communication in Nantes. Now he is the press attaché for the ..Sabotage.. nights in Paris.
Plays the piano, the guitar, the voice and the computer.
Visit his own space, click here!

Clement
He was born in 1980 in a small town near Paris called Palaiseau, when he was 15 he came to scratching and turntablism and then to produce some classical hiphop music.
Now he is involved in santalova team (arrangement and beats) and also leads playerplease
Influences:
Britney Spears
Kate Bush
Cali
Madonna
Kelis


Sounds Like:

Lily Allen
Britney Spears
Gwen Stefani
Emilie Simon
Ashley Simpson
Anaïs
Madonna
Kelis


Record Label:

unsigned

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