Author, composer, musician, performer, actor and voice-over artist Antoine Tomé was born in Saint-Éloy-les-Mines, Puy-de-Dôme, on March 22, 1951. Drawn to the theater, he enrolled at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique, won a first prize in modern comedy and formed his own troupe, Les Colères d'Aristide. Music was another of his hobbies, and he played guitar and percussion. He first created the monocardon, a single-string instrument that he played at his drawing exhibitions. Arriving in Paris in 1975, he performed at the Théâtre de la Vieille-Grille and recorded his first album, Les Chants du Cœur (1977), featuring multi-instrumentalist Loy Ehrlich. After the album Innocence (1979) with Didier Lockwood and a performance at the Printemps de Bourges festival, he signed with the Flarenasch label and produced the diptych L'Amour Titan (1981) and Farniente (1982), two albums produced by Jean Mareska and subtitled Histoire du soleil et divagations autour de la Lune, tome 1 et tome 1 bis. With his new invention, the tricardon, and the introduction of onomatopoeia in the form of vocal percussion, Antoine Tomé created an original style for himself in the French chanson scene, which was undergoing a revival with the emergence of young songwriters at the turn of the 1980s. His next album, originally released under the title Perdre le Nord... Trouver le Nord (1984), was reprinted under the name Sur les Murs de la Ville, to promote the corresponding track. It was the last of these before several years saw the artist turn to dubbing voices for film, cartoons and video games. He returned to song in 1990 with the album Éternité, followed by a steady output including Voyage... (1999), Le Royaume (2000) and Vivant ! (2002) subtitled Contes, légendes et balivernes - tomes 1 et 2, then Romantik Tubes Volume Zéro (2011), Volume 1 (2017) and Volume 2 (2019).
