Madeon

Madeon impresses me because he was clearly a prodigy who actually grew up well. Hugo Leclercq was barely a teenager building those intricate French electro tracks, and child-genius careers in music can curdle fast. What I respect is the trajectory from Nantes bedroom producer to a Los Angeles-based artist who kept evolving his sound rather than coasting on early viral fame. There's a craftsmanship to his production that feels almost architectural to me, layered and precise. He's one of those rare electronic acts I'd file under songwriter first, button-pusher second, and that distinction matters more than genre labels suggest.

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Name (English)

Madeon

Name (Japanese)

マデオン

Reading

までおん

Born

May 30, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

Occupation

disc jockey / record producer / songwriter / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

• Official sitehttps://www.madeon.net
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/madeon/
• Xhttps://x.com/madeon
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1355154

Tags

• Loire-Atlantique
• disc jockey
• record producer
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.