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= Maxenss =

Maxence Lapérouse, known professionaly as Maxenss, is a singer-songwriter and YouTube content creator born on March 2 1995 in Nîmes, France. He rose to popularity by posting covers and original parodic songs on YouTube.

After releasing two EP’s with his band Fysh between 2013 and 2015, and one EP with rap group VSO in 2017, he released his first solo EP “@” in 2019, followed by his first studio album “@+”.

Early life
Maxence Lapérouse was born in Nîmes in 1995. He graduated secondary school with a literary Baccalaureate.

Beginnings on YouTube
Lapérouse started posting videos on YouTube in 2013 and released mainly absurd songs and covers. He continued doing so for several years, some of his most popular work being the songs La quéquette à Jacques Chirac and La chanson de la démonétisation. The latter consists in a series of curse words sung over a melancholic instrumental and was released in response to YouTube’s creators’ decision to demonetize some of Lapérouse’s videos. As of 2019, his music video for La chanson de la démonétisation had been viewed 13 million times. Circa 2015, Lapérouse met French content creators Seb la Frite and Sofyan Boudouni, who have been featuring in many of his videos ever since.

On November 30 2017, on the set of the French TV show “La France a un incroyable talent”, Lapérouse intentionally butchered British female singer Adele’s hit song “Hello”. His performance did not go unnoticed by the media. The same month, he co-signed the book “Turn the Page”, published by French publishing house Michel Lafon, along with YouTuber Squeezie. Lapérouse simultaneously featured in Squeezie’s videos (most notably in the music video for the song Placement de produit), as well as in videos from YouTubers McFly & Carlito.

Music career
In 2012, Lapérouse started a heavy metal band called “Fysh” with some of his classmates. Lapérouse would write and perform the band’s songs. Fysh’s self-titled solo EP was released in 2013. The next year, the band released a second self-produced project: the album “Imago”.

During the summer of 2017, Lapérouse posted the music videos for “Hello Haters”, a song that had been recorded in 2016 and co-written with VSO, a Nîmes-based rap group. VSO and Maxenss’s EP “Southcoaster” was released by Polydor later that year. Together, they performed at the “Francofolies de la Rochelle” music festival, in July 2017.

In 2019, Lapérouse announced the release of his first solo EP as well as a tour in France (one of the tour destinations being the “Three Elephants” music festival). The EP’s first single @maxoulezozo was released on Januray 11 2019, followed by Petit Poisson and Comment dormir avec ta voix dans ma tête, all three with accompanying music videos. Lapérouse’s first solo EP “@”, which features seven tracks in total, was released on July 19 2019. Four new tracks were added to the EP’s bonus version, which was released on October 11 2019.