Homem-Christo has two children: a daughter and a son. The two still share a studio and equipment. Friend and collaborator Todd Edwards later clarified that Bangalter and Homem-Christo remain active separately. On 22 February 2021, Daft Punk released a video announcing their breakup. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Homem-Christo created a curated playlist called 'Star of a hero' for Italian brand MEDEA, containing tracks from the The Beach Boys, The Weeknd, George Duke, and Thundercat, among others. He contributed to the 2018 song ' Hurt You', a collaboration with The Weeknd and Gesaffelstein. Homem-Christo worked on the title track to Charlotte Gainsbourg's fifth studio album Rest, released in 2017. This would be Daft Punk's final production work as a duo, as Daft Punk announced their split via YouTube in February of 2021. Homem-Christo and Bangalter both contributed writing and production credits to the 2017 song 'Overnight' by Parcels. In 2012, he was featured on Tellier's album My God Is Blue on the track 'My Poseidon'.įollowing the release of Daft Punk's fourth album Random Access Memories, Homem-Christo and Bangalter collaborated on two tracks with The Weeknd, ' Starboy' and ' I Feel It Coming', with the former gaining the duo their first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the latter, co-written by Chedeville of Le Knight Club, peaking at number four. In 2010, Homem-Christo worked with Sebastian on the Kavinsky song ' Nightcall'. He produced Sébastien Tellier's 2008 album Sexuality. I may be working on a sample for Crydamoure, and maybe no one else can hear the difference, but we know. The Daft Punk material is more orchestrated and slightly different. Crydamoure is not so production oriented, even if it's not too far from Daft Punk. I know what Thomas likes, and he knows what I like.

When I make records for Crydamoure it's a different style than what may end up as Daft Punk music. Myself and Thomas have the same tastes in music. In regards to Crydamoure, Homem-Christo stated: Crydamoure published works by Homem-Christo's brother Paul de Homem-Christo, under the name Play Paul. They are the founders of the record label Crydamoure, named after a variation of the French phrase 'cri d'amour' or 'cry of love' in English. Homem-Christo is a co-founder of the group Le Knight Club, along with Éric Chedeville from Pumpking Records. There's balance there – completeness between us, yeah'. We're two-halves of one solid combination. He added, 'I'm more critical of everything we do. Regarding Daft Punk's creative process and working with Bangalter, Homem-Christo commented that 'he's much more of the tech guy than I am. Homem-Christo is credited for designing the Daft Punk logo in the liner notes of Homework. The two soon became interested in electronic dance music after going to a club in 1992.

It's like, you know, everybody wants to be in a band.' A negative review referred to their music as 'a daft punky thrash', which inspired Bangalter and Homem-Christo's new name. Bangalter felt that 'It was still maybe more a teenage thing at that time. The two and Laurent Brancowitz eventually joined to form an indie rock trio called Darlin', in which Homem-Christo performed guitar. It was there that they discovered their mutual fascination for films and music of the 1960s and '70s: 'very basic cult teenager things, from Easy Rider to the Velvet Underground'.

Homem-Christo met Thomas Bangalter when they attended the Lycée Carnot school in 1987. He was eventually given an electric guitar at age 14, and uses a guitar when writing music. Homem-Christo was given a toy guitar and keyboard at around seven years of age. He is the great-grandson of Portuguese poet Homem Christo Filho, and the great-great-grandson of Portuguese military figure Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo, who was forced into exile in France in 1910. Homem-Christo was born on 8 February 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He has produced several works from his now defunct record label Crydamoure with label co-owner Éric Chedeville. He is known as one half of the former French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas Bangalter. Guillaume Emmanuel ' Guy-Manuel' de Homem-Christo ( French pronunciation: born 8 February 1974) is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and composer.

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