- Known For
- Sound
- Born
- October 6, 1968
- Place of Birth
- Provins, Seine-et-Marne, France
Dominique A
born at 5;35 pm Dominique Ané (born 6 October 1968), better known as "Dominique A", is a French songwriter and singer. Born on 6 October 1968 in Provins, France, Dominique Ané is the only child of a teacher and a homemaker. He was passionate about literature and music from a young age. He was interested in the punk music of the time, but at the age of 14, at the beginning of the 1980s, he started to appreciate the dark romanticism of the new wave movement. After his baccalaureate, he studied humanities for a year, and, at the same time, did a range of odd jobs, including his spell as a utility man for an FM radio station in Nantes, where his family lived. At around the age of 16, he started up a band, John Merrick, named after the hero of the film The Elephant Man, a movie by David Lynch. The foursome recorded a vinyl album of somber, tormented songs and gave a number of concerts in t…
