Ethan French
"I'm always looking for people with cool voices and he has a really cool voice."
- Charlie Puth, Grammy-nominated artist and producer
"The vocals are so sweet, the texture of his voice."
- H.E.R., Grammy-award winning artist
Jack (and master) of all trades Ethan French has many years of experience in performance and songwriting despite being just a teenager. Ethan has profound patience and intellectual endeavour; not satisfied with being 'just a pianist' he became a multi-instrumentalist, teaching himself how to play the guitar, bass, drums and even ukulele.
Ethan’s young catalogue is inspired by generational talents Jacob Collier and John Mayer, two artists who have never shied away from incorporating complex musical theory into a pop setting, encouraging him to do the same.
This was prevalent on "Say What You Want", Ethan's brilliant debut with Source. Highlighting his honey-soaked harmonies and sizzling chords, this single served as an introduction for Ethan to Australia and beyond. Listeners heard the track on triple j and local radio in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, and with additions to Apple Music's New Music Daily, Always Sunday and Jazz Scene: Australia and New Zealand playlists, the track has been streamed over 70,000 times in Japan, the US, the UK and Australia.
Latest single "By Then" tackles the perceived pressure of being creative 24/7. Beginning with a pulsating and tender verse before breaking into full-fledged jazz-funk, Ethan’s message is as much to himself as it is the listeners.
"I often find myself feeling quite uncreative in the periods between when I'm working on new tracks. I wanted 'By Then' to be a bit of an ode to that feeling as well as something to materialise the fact that those feelings aren't true." - Ethan
Stream “By Then” by Ethan French here or check out his One Room Music Video below.