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Piers Faccini is a British singer-songwriter, painter and photographer, born in 1970. He is one of ten artists selected by the Constantin Prize Jury for his album Two Grains of Sand, released in 2009.
Born of Italian father and English mother, Piers Faccini moves to France at the age of five. Part of his schooling is at the Eton College in England. He began playing publicly in London in 1997, then starting on the London stage, when he founded the group Charley Marlowe with Francesca Beard, first to accompany texts recited and then evolving in a melodic line. Soon joined by percussionist Frank Byng and guitarist Lucas Suarez, the band plays regularly in London and released an EP: This could be you. During this period he also produced soundtracks for the BBC and Channel. Charley Marlowe separated in 2001 when Faccini decided to produce his own music.
Released in 2006, his second album Tearing Sky is produced by JP Plunier, Ben Harper's official producer for which Faccini plays the first part, including on June 28 of the same year. The bassist Juan Nelson, who accompanies Ben Harper, and Adam Topol, playing the drums for the musician Jack Johnson, are present on this record.
Selected for the Constantin Prize, his third opus Two grains of Sand is also elected by the listeners of France Inter best album of 2009.
In his musical style and voice, there is an "obvious affinity" with Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. His No reply and his cover of The Partisan are good examples.
Piers Faccini has been painting since the early 1990s and continues his work as a visual artist in parallel with his career as a musician. In particular, he created the cut-out papers that adorn the covers and covers of his albums My Wilderness and Between Dogs and Wolves, and produced several of his clips, some of them using the stop motion technique (Missing words, Tribe, Rest the Tide. ..).
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