Pascal Guyon is a French musician, producer, songwriter and mixing engineer who contributed to three Grammy nominations. Guyon is also a coder and public speaker.
Life and career
Guyon started his professional career as a mixing engineer at seventeen years old. He became a classical and jazz piano teacher by nineteen, teaching at two french conservatories while performing with various bands. Pascal started collaborating with international artists such as
Timbaland
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's artist D.O.E. and
K-pop
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boy band
TVXQ
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in 2008.
Guyon worked on "
Spirit
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* Spirit or tincture, an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol
* Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, ...
" by
Leona Lewis
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and “
The Point of It All” by
Anthony Hamilton within his first two weeks in Los Angeles.
He has been making music for elite artists and brands all over the world :
Raheem DeVaughn,
Rostrum Records
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,
Wynter Gordon
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,
Jane Zhang
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,
Kim Tae-yeon
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,
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
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.
In 2015, Guyon was a member of the judging panel for
Music Tech Fest
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Its origins go back to 2012 when founder Michela Magas established Music Tech ...
's hackathon in Scandinavia along with
Owsla
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artist Phonat. Pascal occasionally writes songs with
Forbes 30 Under 30
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Nanxi Liu, co-founder and CEO of
Enplug
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En ...
.
In 2017, Guyon programmed a "proof of concept" educational video game allowing instant monetization at no cost to the player by leveraging blockchain technology.
In 2020, Guyon was a featured speaker at Campus Digital organised by Le Barreau De Paris, an event about the future of the music industry, law and technology.
Pascal has been collaborating with
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
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as a software developer.
Selected music credits
*2020 "How Can I Fail" by NoTrace, featured in the
NBA 2K21
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video game
*2020 "Fighter's Spirit" by NoTrace, featured in the
NBA 2K21
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video game
*2020 "Making a Monster Out Of Me" by
Katherine McNamara
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featured in the TV show
The Stand (2020 miniseries)
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on CBS All Access
*2017 "Rescue Me" by
Kim Tae-yeon
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*2014 "Vadonatúj érzés" by
Gigi Radics
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Hungarian singer who is best known for participating in A Dal 2013 and 2014 and being one of the judges on the Hungarian X-Factor.
Career 2012: ''Megasztár''
In February 2012, Radics was chose ...
*2014 "Get Out Of My Life" by
Jane Zhang
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*2011 "Putting it Out There" by
Wynter Gordon
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*2011 "Blow Your Speakers" by
Big Time Rush
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*2009 "Why I like you" & "Love Disease" by
Super Junior
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*2009 "Turn It Out" by D.O.E.,
The Marc Pease Experience
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*2008 "You're my melody" by
TVXQ
TVXQ (stylized as TVXQ!), an initialism for Tong Vfang Xien Qi (), is a South Korean male Pop music, pop duo consisting of Yunho, U-Know Yunho and Changmin, Max Changmin. They are known as in Japanese releases, and are sometimes referred to as ...
, album
Mirotic
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The ...
*2008 "She's Gone" by
Anthony Hamilton
*2007 "Here I Am" by
Leona Lewis
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French male songwriters
French songwriters
Male songwriters
French record producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)