Melaine Favennec is a multi-instrumentalist. He plays the violin and guitar, among other instruments. A theatre actor and composer of music for the theatre, he also made his debut in film with Brisures d’Abers (JL Le Tacon) and Un voyage immobile (Lejalé). He then lent his likeness to the graphic novel Les Yeux d’étain de la ville glauque , illustrated by François Bourgeon . He also paints and draws.

Born in 1950 in Quimperlé, Melaine Favennec was raised on the traditional songs and melodies collected by his father, Robert Favennec (founder of the Bagad Bro Kemperle ) [ 2 ] , and his father’s musician friends ( Polig Montjarret , Youenn Gwernig ) [ 3 ] . At a very young age, he learned to play the bombard and the bagpipes . Upon hearing the Celtic-sounding ballad ” Gates of Eden ,” he dreamed of following in Bob Dylan ‘s footsteps [ 4 ] . From the age of twelve, he began writing and performing songs in duets with his friend François Didier. In 1969, he co-founded the Théâtre du Temps Fort in Alençon and performed in four plays with a troupe. He returned to Brittany and relearned the bombard and the bagpipes. He participated in the creation of the legendary group Diaouled Ar Menez ( devils of the mountain ) in which he played violin from 1972 to 1975, and then occasionally since the group’s 25th ^{anniversary .}

He wanted to launch a solo career to express himself through song and spoken word. The year after his departure, in 1976, he released Basse Danse on the Névénoë label (which he managed from 1972 to 1979 with founders Gérard Delahaye and Patrik Ewen ). With his own show, he toured and performed as the opening act for Bernard Lavilliers , Archie Shepp , and Léo Ferré … In 1979, he released Chansons simples et chants de longue haleine .

In 1982, he signed with RCA for the release of the album Au secret déluge . He then experienced the 1980s revival [ 5 ] but continued to tour, including a notable appearance at the Printemps de Bourges festival . He was then considered a pioneer of a new trend in French song and received the SACEM award . In 1986, he performed his concert show La belle inutile until 1989, which marked the beginning of his collaboration with Yvan Cassar from Rennes and the show Trois = Plus , presented at the Tombées de la Nuit festival with a philharmonic orchestra . Meanwhile, in 1988, he released the album Melaine – Masculin Singulier , which included the song L’hélice .

In 1990, he participated in the Quarantièmes Rugissants festival with the Henri Texier Jazztet and the Bagad Bro Kemperle pipe band . He also released La chambre , a new album (with Yvan Cassar) which won the Prix de l’ Académie Charles-Cros and the Prix de la Création en Bretagne. In 1993, Présent d’Exil (again arranged by Yvan Cassar) was also critically acclaimed. In 2001, he released the solo album Nos îles, nos amours on the L’Oz Production label (recorded in 1999 with, among others, a string quartet and guitarist Dan Ar Braz ) and embarked on a tour with his two friends Patrick Ewen and Gérard Delahaye, forming the trio EDF, with whom he recorded the album Kan Tri in 2003. In 2005, he released another solo album, Hey Ho .

In 2012 , in Émoi des mots , Melaine Favennec set to music and recorded poems by Max Jacob taken from several collections, including Le Cornet à dés [ 6 ] , [ 7 ] .