Fakear is Théo Le Vigoureux - an uncannily suitable name for a young producer whose energy is seemingly limitless At 24 years old, Fakear has already taken his globally-tuned dance music across the world, playing shows from London to Tokyo, supporting Bonobo and selling out Paris’ prestigious Olympia in 2015The journey that’s led to 2016 and his debut album, Animal, has been three years and 4 EPs long One of them reached the top 10 in France, and his music has drawn the attention of MIA, AlunaGeorge, DJ Snake, Annie Mac, The FADER and ODESZA - one of many peers who’ve asked Fakear for remixesBut the real journey, of course, goes further back Le Vigoreux was born in Caen, Calvados, Normandy - an ancient part of France, and the same place William the Conqueror came from His parents were musicians too, and they raised him on a steady diet of of Maurice Ravel symphonies, and songs by Ismael Lo and Cheb Mami
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