Yann Tiersen is a Breton musician. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter. Tiersen is often mistaken for a composer of soundtracks, himself saying "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical background", but his real focus is on touring and studio albums which just happen to often be suitable for film. His most famous soundtrack for the film Am�lie was primarily made up of tracks taken from his first four studio albums. [More at Wikipedia]

June 23rd, 1970 in Brest (Age 54) as Yann Pierre Tiersen