Hyphen Hyphen

Hyphen Hyphen is a French electropop band from Nice Masséna in Nice, South of France. They chose the term Hyphen from Ancient Greek (''hyph' hén'') standing for "in one" through the looking-glass.

Santa and Adam are childhood friends, and met Line and Zac in high school.

In March 2011, Hyphen Hyphen self-released their first extended play titled ''Chewbacca I'm Your Mother''.

The band has taken part in many national and regional music contests. They notably won the Prix du Jury of Les Inrocks Lab, and the Biennial of Young Creators from Europe and the Mediterranean.

In 2012, they released their second EP ''Wild Union''. The first elements from their current visual identity began showing with these projects, including tribal signs. They would later use the term ''Wild Union'' to describe the bond they formed both within the band and with their ever-growing audience.

After many performances in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Hyphen Hyphen started performing all over France including high-profile festivals such as Printemps de Bourges as finalists, and Rock en Seine.

In 2013, Hyphen Hyphen won FAIR, ''détours'' ADAMI, and Best Live of OÜI FM radio. They participed to Solidays and Eurockéennes de Belfort.

''Times'' and ''HH'' (2014–2020)

On 18 September 2015, their debut album ''Times'', with all tracks written, composed, arranged and produced by the then four members, was released in France. They recorded the voices of ''Just Need Your Love'' at Villa Coco Beach.

In Conservatory of Nice, they study plastic arts. The group designs the visual of their album covers.

On 12 February 2016, Hyphen Hyphen won the Award for ''Revelation Scene'' (Best New Live act) at Victoires de la Musique, the French Music Awards, with their memorable performance of ''Just Need Your Love''. In September 2016, the film director Jalil Lespert chose this music for his short movie ' (Paris I love you) featuring Astrid Roos.

In September 2017, the band released the fifth track from ''Times'', ''Closer to You'', as a single. The song was then featured in Armani ''Sì Passione'' Perfume featuring Cate Blanchett.

On April 7, 2018, Hyphen Hyphen performed at 30th Chorus festival in La Seine musicale, Île Seguin.
On 25 May 2018, Hyphen Hyphen released their second album ''HH'' and went on tour for over one and a half-years. They performed more than 150 shows all around France, Belgium and Switzerland. The album has been recorded in Studio Atlas Paris.

On 7 January 2019, the second track from ''HH'', ''Like Boys'', was used in Yves Saint Laurent's ''Rouge Volupté Shine'' lipstick. On 22 March 2019, the single ''Lonely Baby'' featuring Kiiara was released internationally. In the following April, ''Like Boys'' was featured in Lacoste's ''French Panache'' perfume.

''C'est La Vie'' and solo project (2020 – 2025)

During the years 2020–2021, the band began the writing and production of their fourth album, '. They wrote and autoproduced most of the songs during lockdown. The album was recorded in ICP Studio, Brussels, where the band also recorded their first album ''Times'' in 2015.

On 21 June 2022, the band performed a batch of new songs in a rainy Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, during the Summerstage Festival.

Hyphen Hyphen released the first single of their new album on May 13, 2022, titled ''Don't Wait for Me''. Two weeks later on May 30, the band released the single ''Too Young'', which was chosen by the French TV network TF1 and FIFA to be the official anthem for UEFA Women's Euro 2022.

In September 2022, the band officially announced their new European Tour ''C'est La Vie Tour'', with performances in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg beginning in January 2023.

On 2 December 2022, Hyphen Hyphen released the album's third single ''Call My Name''. The band did an intimate-release performance for the album in Paris. This show marked the comeback of the band on-stage with new songs.

On 6 January 2023, prior to the launch of the tour, the band released the fourth and final single from the album, called ''Own God''.

On 20 January 2023, Hyphen Hyphen release their fourth album ' (That's life!).

The tour begins in Europe.

Hyphen Hyphen surround themselves with the producer Glen Ballard. He is the coauthor of ''Don't Wait for Me''. He introduced the band to the mixers Mike “Spike” Stent (''Too young'') and Dan Grech (''Call my name'').

In July 2023, Santa performs ''Salted popcorn'', her love song in French from her first solo album ''Recommence-moi'', in a cloud ''above'' Brussels at the Summer Pleasures event before the final popcorn rain.

In August 2023, Hyphen Hyphen go on tour in North America. In Montreal, not so far from Le Plateau-Mont-Royal so called ' (the New France), Santa proudly deploys a rainbow flag — High With Her — in the prism of beams of light to celebrate "the love of the stage, à la française".

In June 2025, according to RTBF, Hyphen Hyphen no longer exists.

Santa sings in solo with her team. Adam manages the image. Line writes music and plays guitar and bass on stage for Santa.

The Santa's aesthetic shots by the photographer Ben Fourmi express confidence in her rebirth.

Closer to this reincarnation, call Line by her name: Kid Sophie.

Members

The three-member band is composed of:.
# Santa – lead vocals, guitar and synth. Santa is of both French and American descent, and the daughter of a singer. She trained with the vocal coach Guy Roche;
# Line – bass, drums, vocals;
# Adam – guitar, keys, vocals.

Drummers:
* Zac left the band in 2016;
* Zoé during the ''HH'' Tour;
* Axel during the ''C'est La Vie'' Tour.

Movie

Just Need Your Love

Development

Hyphen Hyphen wishes both the sea, and the desert as a hardship to summit the mountain.

On a Parisian roof for ''Call my name'', a mountain of TV broadcast the waves of the sea. It is so cold that the last Tyrannosaurus Rex would not survive to the glacial winter after that an asteroid collided with earth vanishing the starlight.

In contrast, German-based Parlophon finds Lanzarote, a hot and desertic island with camels in the atlantic ocean at four hours of flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle, beyond Spain at the level of South of Morocco. This Spanish island is enough large for the international César Manrique – Lanzarote Airport between the volcanos and the beaches.

In the beginning, the movie suddenly freezes like a photography by Fanny Schilchter featuring the human-made tree of life with four branches: Adam, Line, Santa, and Zac. During a few seconds, they do not move as a pillar of salt. They wanted to become statues on the sleeve of ''Times''.

Production

The movie is directed by John Poliquin and produced by Hervé Humbert for U-Man films. Oliver Millar is the director of Photography. Hyphen Hyphen writes the scenario.

Casting

The movie features:
* Samanta Cotta as Santa;
* Laura Christin as Line;
* Romain Adamo as Adam;
* Zacchary Sholtz as Zac both so near and so far from the trinity. He is the HH flag bearer;
* Kiara Kästle, actress and leading dancer.

Reception

According to Charts in France, a "human-like creature" with a "red cape" envelops the atmosphere of "mysticism and dark legends" on a burned volcanic planet hot under the surface. The quartet of Fantastic Four ride across the mountains of fire, verbatim ''Timanfaya''. They run on the red, ocher and black sandy dunes until the foamy white baptism of the ''young leaders''. They are their own gods. They light the moonlight between the giant moon and Famara cliffs.

Instinct magazine prefers the term of "Alien visitation".
For the Gazette of Lanzarote, "the video is a strange and alluring blend of science fiction and tribal themes, and probably the finest use of the island in a music video to date."

Discography

Albums

Track listing

EP

* ''Chewbacca I Am Your Mother'' (2011): ''Grace'', ''Epiphany'', ''Only One'', ''Baby Baby Sweet Sweet'', ''Never Ever'';
* ''Wild Union'' (2012): ''Major Tom'', ''Atlas'', ''Wild Patterns'', ''Mvt II'', ''Empty Fire''.

''Times'' (2015)

''HH'' (2018)

''C'est La Vie'' (2023)

Singles

*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

**Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts nor the bubbling under Ultratip charts, but was registered in the Ultratip charts as an extra tip.

Other charting songs

Songwriting

*2020: Ali – ''Paris me dit (Yalla ya helo!)'' – (Finalist for ''Eurovision France, c'est vous qui décidez!'' for selecting representative to Eurovision Song Contest

References

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Musical groups established in 2009
French pop music groups
French rock music groups
Organizations based in Nice
Albums produced by Guy Roche
Musical groups from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur