Hubert Felix Thiefaine, born Hubert Félix Gérard Thiéfaine, is a French pop rock singer/songwriter. In 1978, he released his first album, Tout corps vivant branché sur le secteur étant appelé à s'émouvoir. In 1980s, his style became more rock, with the album, Soleil cherche futur, which found success with the track, "Lorelei sebasto cha", in 1982. He left his label Sterne, and recorded 2 news albums in the US, Chroniques bluesymentales (1990), and Fragments d'hébétudes (1993). In 2005 Thiéfaine released a more personal album album, Scandal mélancolique, in which he describes his past. In 2014, he released his seventeenth album, Stratégie de l'inespoir. Thiéfaine avowed influences includes poets such as, Rimbaud, Baudelaire ou Lautréamont and artists of the Beat generation.
