Marc Gros Cannella

Marc Gros Cannella (France) is an author, composer and performer. Born in Saint-Etienne on 10 March 1995 into a family originally from Sicily, Marc Gros Cannella lives and works in Paris since 2020. He oscillates between writing – literature, poetry and songs – and composing – a mix of pop music, rap and electronic culture – under the pseudonym Fils Cara, or in collaboration with other performers, film and live performance. Alongside his studies in Sound Design (Centre Factory, 2015) and Anthropology (Université Lumière Lyon II, 2016), he regularly posts music on the Internet.

His project at Villa Medici
As part of his residency at Villa Medici, Marc Gros Cannella will explore the notion of ‘Solar Grunge’ – a narrative and musical genre whose initial intuition emerged during the making of his first album, Amaretto (Microqlima, 2023).
The Figues de Barbaries project will take the form of a continuum between the creation of a new repertoire (demos for a future record) and the gathering of text and sound material for a collection of short forms (poems, short stories, notes) in which he will continue his research into Sicilian folklore, rock and medieval philosophy, which cross, maintain or hinder the writing of his own body with its insular heritage and French culture.

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