Avril (French musician)


Fred Avril, aka Avril / Frédéric Magnon is a French electronic musician and film composer based in Montmartre, Paris.
As a singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist, he won international praise for his two albums that foreshadowed a strong link with cinema.
He got his start in film music in 2008 with Hong-Kong acclaimed director Johnnie To. His quasi-musical Sparrow's soundtrack was nominated at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, the film being a box-office hit in China.
Fred Avril won the Stockholm Music Award with Swedish film Sound of Noise" about "sonic bombing". He specialized in music for films and composed the score for the indie feature "The Lifeguard" with Kristen Bell, that premiered in Sundance.
In 2018 he composed the main theme for Netflix Original The Hook Up Plan. The music was uploaded by fans on Youtube and was viewed more than 5 million times throughout the world before being released by BMG records.
Other songs on different projects have featured singers Mick Harvey and Christophe. He co-composed with Marianne Elise the song in French box-office success Connasse, Princesse des cœurs introducing Camille Cottin.
But Fred Avril also writes classical arrangements, for example in I Am Not an Easy Man.
He won the Emile Award of the Best Soundtrack for an Animated Series with adult manga series Lastman.
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Cinema and Series

Personal Albums