Opening # 12

BEN L'ONCLE SOUL This is the story of a music-mad guy from Tours who, in 2010, enchanted the whole of France with his vintage soul.

BEN L'ONCLE SOUL

This is the story of a music-mad guy from Tours who, in 2010, enchanted the whole of France with his vintage soul. A voice, a vibe, an intoxicating freshness. On the radio, on screen, on stage everywhere, Ben the soulman preaches the good word and carves his path along a fruitful decade: a live show at the Zénith de Paris, an album with the Californians from Monophonics, a personal reinterpretation of Sinatra, leading up to “Addicted To You” which in 2020 revealed a new Ben, now a father and determined to take control of all aspects of his artistic production. Thus was born Enchanté, his label, his home, which, by welcoming a close-knit small team, would change everything. Far from the marketing constraints of major labels, Ben resets the cursors where he wants them: priority to the love of sound as in the beginning and the exhilaration of creativity nourished by contact with other vibration shapers. Then came “Red Mango” (2022), a radiant Jamaican escapade, followed by “Is It You?” (2023), a spiritual gem forged in a live spirit with his faithful stage companions. After a major international tour of over 150 dates, and also the publication on his label of Linda Lee Hopkins’ aptly named “Spirit & Soul”, it’s time to reshuffle the cards, to combine the art of beatmaking with his desire to sing freely in response to the propulsion of a drum kit. By building “Sad Generation” with a golden duo of producer-multi-instrumentalists, Ben engraves a new audacious, thrilling chapter endowed with solid coherence, that of a young man in his early forties ready to cross the doors that his artistic maturity opens before him.

Mike l'Inspi

Mike l’Inspi is a singer-songwriter and performer based in Paris. A self-taught, French-Dutch Cameroonian artist, he creates a unique musical universe where African roots and French modernity intertwine. Self-taught on guitar, he develops an intimate and popular style that reaches an increasingly wide audience.