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Celsius X, Band.

Celsius X is a band, formed during the school years 2009/2010. starting as a school band only performing within the school itself on various opportunities. All band members are from the same school : The international school of Grenoble, Europole. The members are, in alphabetical order : Alexis Benoit, Alba Besson, Owen Jeffery, Marine Marcdargent, Mathieu Rumeau and Joshua Wildhorn, respectively at the guitar, vocals, drums, keyboard, bass and finally lead guitar. The international background in which in the band was formed has had an important influence on the band. The songs are written and thought in English, and covers are made of only English spoken songs. Among which have been performed songs by The Killers, Maroon 5, KT Tunstall, Adele, The Ceasars, Kansas, Shaka Ponk, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Boston, and many others. All the band members having very different musical tastes, it has allowed them to gain inspiration from a large panel of artists. But the genre is mostly revolving around rock sorts of riffs and structures, mixed with acoustic rythms and symbolic language.

The first single of the band was released in 2011 under the name "Mouthful of Cake", this is a song issued from a school project for which an album was to be created in order to fight poverty with music. It was made of songs in all languages spoken in the school and all the benefits were given to the charity organization Oxfam. "Mouthful of Cake", having received quite a success from the public, was pushed even further by the band members, it was uploaded to iTunes and Spotify with the same aim : give all the benefits to Oxfam but independently from the initial album called "Le Fossé". A music video was made to promote the song and illustrate the lyrics. It has received close to 2000 views on YouTube so far.

A second song has been written, recorded and mastered under the name "Afterlove". The song tells the story of a person that has recently been heartbroken by his/her lover. Its aim is to help the listeners that are in the same position. A music video has been filmed while the song was being worked on. It is due to release summer 2012.