KIERAN THORPE

blurb in english

Kieran Thorpe is a French singer-songwriter and novelist, from Toulouse. He has spent the last 10 years travelling and performing across Europe – from rural anarchist bookshops to the stages of Cambridge Folk Festival and Glastonbury as songwriter and keys player with UK rock and roll band, The Buffalo Skinners. He is also trained baker and when not touring lives in the French countryside with his partner and son, restoring an old farmhouse where he plans to build an artist residency and studio. In 2021, inspired by the likes of James Taylor, Leonard Cohen and noir, existential novelists Pascal Garnier and George Simenon, Thorpe released his debut album A Room With A View, with an accompany series of short stories. 2026 sees him debuting tracks from a new album, across the UK, France and Germany.

bio en français

Kieran Thorpe est un chanteur-compositeur dont la musique s’inscrit dans la tradition des singer-songwriters des seventies à aujourd’hui. Formé à l'école des scènes ouvertes et autres hootenannies britanniques — l’équivalent folk des jam-sessions —, il est désormais installé en France, dans la campagne, au nord de l’Auvergne. Il a enregistré et publié à l’orée de l’été 2021 son premier album en leader, A Room With a View. Une aventure solo pour laquelle il s’est néanmoins entouré de douze musiciens interprétant des arrangements pour cordes, cuivres et harmonies vocales. Il présente désormais sur les morceaux de son deuxième album qui sortira courant 2026.

photo credits: Jonathan Bayol and Mathieu Lacout