My Name is Claude

My Name Is Claude is the classical-meets-electronic pop project of singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Claude Ferland. Growing up in Montreal, Ferland began playing violin at age six and started piano soon after. In his teens, he absorbed the works of Charles Baudelaire, André Breton, and André Gide, writers whose melancholy viewpoints shaped his own. During the late '90s, Ferland was a member of the electro-pop group SAS-31. By 2005, he had moved to Berlin and played with another electro-pop outfit, Love Love Love, who appeared on 2007's Berlin Insane compilation. Aro...