Lewis Pierre Simon Delhomme (born 1997 in Paris, France) known professionally as Lewis OfMan, is a French synth-pop producer. He has released three EPs, Disconsolate, Yo Bene, and Dancy Party, and an album, Sonic Poems, though is known for the latter's single with Coco & Clair Clair, "Misbehave", and his collaboration with Carly Rae Jepsen, "Move Me". His uncle is Benoît Delhomme.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lewis Pierre Simon Delhomme |
| Born | 1997 |
| Origin | Paris |
| Genres | Synth-pop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
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Life and career edit
Early life edit
Lewis Pierre Simon Delhomme[1] is from Paris,[2] and has two siblings, Camille and Joseph,[3] who are much older than him.[4] His father, Jean-Philippe Delhomme,[5] is an artist who created a series of advertisements for Barneys New York in the 1990s,[6] his uncle, Benoît Delhomme, was a cinematographer who worked on films The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) and Cyclo (1995), their grandfather, Georges Delhomme,[7] helped create Lancôme and spent 29 years with the firm,[8] and Lewis' mother, Sophie-Anne,[3] spent time as the artistic director of Courrier International.[9]
Growing up, he wanted to be a perfumer, but found it too mathematical,[10] and spent much of his childhood on Sophie-Anne's phone, which contained a number of video games, including a rudimentary digital audio workstation. He then spent a period in New York,[4] at which, aged eleven,[11] he learned to play the drums; upon his return to Paris, he became the drummer for a band,[4] the Jools,[11] before buying himself a keyboard the following year.[12] He then began composing works on Sophie-Anne's iPad using GarageBand,[13] and his first EP, the Bandcamp-exclusive Disconsolate, was produced using the software.[12]
Career edit
SoundCloud, when you upload a track, it asks for the artist name and I was like, "Woah, what's my artist name?" I remembered my brother was playing this soccer video game where you create your own soccer player and he had our last name, which is Delhomme, on there in Español, which would make it, "Del Hombre." And he was like, "You know, in English, it's cool too. It's OfMan." And I was like, "Lewis OfMan, that's a cool name."[4]
OfMan in October 2022
Delhomme adopted the Lewis OfMan moniker around 2014;[12] SoundCloud had asked him what his artist name was, and he remembered that his brother had played a soccer video game in which his surname appeared in Spanish as "Del Hombre", prompting him to mention in passing that its English translation was "Of Man".[4] That year, he released his second EP, Yo Bene,[12] and later that year, he produced Vendredi sur Mer's debut album Marée Basse.[14] In 2021, he released another EP, Dancy Party,[15] and the following year he released Misbehave, a collaboration with Coco & Clair Clair, which Billboard likened to a version of Kesha's "Tik Tok" shot in the Emily in Paris universe; the song appeared on Delhomme's album Sonic Poems, which was released the same day[16] and was co-produced with Tim Goldsworthy, and contained eighteen voice notes.[13] He then released the single Nails Matching My Fit featuring Shanae, and in July 2022, he released Move Me, a collaboration with Carly Rae Jepsen, who had discovered Delhomme in September 2020 after a friend sent her a playlist; in an October 2022 interview with Paper, Delhomme stated that he wrote the song while living in Florence after spending a "special night" with someone, and that he wrote the track the day before a session with Jepsen.[17] In February 2023, Delhomme supported Jepsen on several shows on her The So Nice Tour.[18]
In October 2022, he released a remix of Superorganism's On & On, which later appeared on World Wide Pop – Reeeemix!, a remix album based on the band's World Wide Pop.[19] In June 2023, Delhomme released Highway, a collaboration with Empress Of, alongside a music video shot in Los Angeles and directed by Écoute Chérie, Delhomme's visual collaborator. The song came about after Delhomme met Empress Of in Los Angeles, set up a session with her, and used it to burn off a demo he had started while on holiday in Greece while listening to the psychedelic rock he was listening to as a teenager and 1970s Brazilian music such as Jorge Ben and Quarteto em Cy.[20]
In November 2023, he released the album Hey Lou, which Delhomme had also written in Greece, and which was a collaboration with Parisian singer Camille Jansen, with whom Delhomme had previously worked on her Louise EP in 2019; the song sampled a choir, as Delhomme was listening to Leonard Cohen's song So Long, Marianne and Death of a Ladies' Man at the time, and was released alongside a music video shot by Pierre Auroux at Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve.[21]
Artistry edit
Writing in June 2023, Rachel Brodsky of Stereogum described his music as synth-pop.[20] In an April 2017 interview with W, he stated that he was "really inspired" by Frank Ocean, Ennio Morricone, Lee Fields, and Jamie xx, further elaborating that:
Frank Ocean is the greatest artist I ever known, his way to create is incredible, all the contrasts and mysteries you can find in his music are very interesting, I really love his album Blonde and ever more the video album Endless, which is for me an incredible performance of talent and standards exit. Ennio Morricone, with his melodies, his choice of chords and sounds which are perfect, guides me a lot. Lee Fields have a special mood in his songs that I love, a really good energy that gladdens what you are doing at the moment you are listening to it. Finally, Jamie XX, because I feel in his music a huge part of spontaneity and sincerity, just groove and sounds experiment, I love that, he is not following a movement or something he really has his sound, and this is the artist goal for me.[12]
Under the name Lewis OfMan, he is since December 2023 on tour in France, Belgium, in the United States, Mexico and as well in Canada to promote his latest album Cristal Medium Blue.[22]
Discography edit
Studio albums edit
- Sonic Poems (2022)
- Cristal Medium Blue (2024)
EPs edit
- Disconsolate (2014)
- Yo Bene (2017)
- Dancy Party (2021)
Singles edit
As lead artist edit
| Title | Year | Album |
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| "Flash" | 2018 | Yo Bene |
| "Plein de bisous" (featuring Milena Leblanc) |
Non-album single | |
| "Attitude" | 2020 | Dancy Party |
| "Dancy Boy" | ||
| "Orphéon" | 2021 | Non-album single |
| "Boom Boom" | Sonic Poems | |
| "Too Much Text" | 2022 | |
| "Misbehave" (featuring Coco & Clair Clair) | ||
| "Nails Matching My Fit" (featuring Shanae) |
Non-album singles | |
| "Move Me" (featuring Carly Rae Jepsen) | ||
| "Highway" (featuring Empress Of) |
2023 | Cristal Medium Blue |
| "Frisco Blues" | ||
| "Hey Lou" (featuring Camile Jensen) |
Remixes edit
| Title | Year | Artist(s) |
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| "Summertime Sadness" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
2015 | Lana Del Rey |
| "Un Mec En Or" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
2016 | The Pirouettes |
| "Qui es-tu?" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Poom | |
| "Housse de Racket" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Le Rayon Vert | |
| "Swamp" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Futuro Pelo | |
| "La piscine" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
2017 | Hypnolove |
| "Pondikonissi" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
aglaska | |
| "Sao Paulo" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Julia Jean-Baptiste | |
| "Romeo" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Yelle | |
| "In your beat" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
2019 | Django Django |
| "Joy in repetition" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Keziah Jones | |
| "When trouble sleep yanga wke am" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Keziah Jones | |
| "Goodbye soleil" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Phoenix | |
| "Beautiful" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
2020 | Rhye |
| "TXU TXU" (Lewis OfMan Houseparty Remix) |
2022 | PPJ |
| "On & On" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
Superorganism | |
| "Bad Lil Vibe" (Lewis OfMan Remix) |
2023 | Coco & Clair Clair |
References edit
- ^ "Delhomme Lewis Pierre Simon". ASCAP. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Christine (11 October 2022). ""Sometimes with some people you just feel that you can express your feelings and open up." A moment with Lewis OfMan". C-Heads Magazine. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ a b The Cultivated Life: Artistic, Literary, and Decorating Dramas. Rizzoli. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8478-3217-0.
- ^ a b c d e "Lewis OfMan Is the Life of the Party". Paper. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Rose, Cynthia (4 May 2020). "Art In Quarantine: Jean-Philippe Delhomme". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Strom, Stephanie (17 September 1993). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; Barneys touts its new store on Madison Avenue with an eye-catching, artistic campaign". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Winters, Laura (5 December 1999). "FILM; A Risk-Taking Perfectionist Behind the Camera". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Afcinema (7 January 2024). "Benoît Delhomme, the eye, the hand... and beyond". Afcinema (in French). Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Planet Women". Jamaica Observer. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Mamedy, Ivica (14 June 2021). "A conversation with French electronic musician Lewis OfMan". Fucking Young!. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ a b "10 Essentials: Jean-Philippe Delhomme". GQ. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Why Everyone Is Talking About French Musician Lewis Ofman". W Magazine. 29 April 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ a b Daoui, Sarah (18 February 2022). "Lewis OfMan's Sonic Poems is a timeless ode to the emotional voice". Document Journal. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Rencontre avec Charline du beau projet Vendredi sur Mer | Les Inrocks". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ François; Charles (12 March 2021). "[Interview] Une discussion avec Lewis Ofman". La Face B (in French). Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Billboard Staff (18 February 2022). "First Spin: The Week's Best New Dance Tracks From Alesso & Katy Perry, Lewis OfMan & More". Billboard. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Pappis, Konstantinos (15 July 2022). "Carly Rae Jepsen and Lewis OfMan Team Up on New Single 'Move Me'". Our Culture. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Hollis, Patrick (23 September 2022). "Carly Rae Jepsen Birmingham 2023". Birmingham World. JPIMedia. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ Staff, BrooklynVegan (7 October 2022). "28 New Songs Out Today". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ a b "Lewis OfMan & Empress Of Share New Song "Highway": Listen". Stereogum. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Moir, Tammy (20 November 2023). "The irresistible arpeggiated synth riff that is Lewis Ofman's 'Hey Lou'". Happy Mag. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Lewis OfMan. "Official website Lewis OfMan, Tour dates 2024". lewisofman.komi.io. Retrieved 29 March 2024.