Paddy Sherlock — Showman bursting with energy, a charming Zebedee, a facetious crooner, and a solid trombonist — spent nearly 40 years on a fantastic adventure in Paris. Trombone in hand and an original song on his lips, he played and wrote for the top French rock band FFF (Epic/Virgin).

The band won two Victoires de la Musique (the French Grammys): one for Best Album and another for Best Live Band, and they headlined all the greatest festivals in Europe, including Glastonbury, Pinkpop, Eurockéennes, Roskilde, and Solidays.

Always in the thick of the Paris music and arts scene, Paddy and his band recorded a Christmas album for Charlie Hebdo, with all the now-ill-fated cartoonists and writers singing on the tracks. After the massacre, he sang at the funeral of his friend Charb, the editor of Charlie Hebdo.

He founded The Swinging Lovers and led the Neo-Swing movement in Paris, writing and creating a completely new modern repertoire that drove every Lindy hopper and swing dancer in the city wild.

He played the longest-running gig in modern Parisian history — 20 years at The Coolin, until the venue closed.

Paddy's most recent album, DUSK, was named Album of the Week by Rolling Stone Magazine and Album of the Month on FiP radio.

"As an actor, Paddy has played Estragon in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot — the first Irish actor ever to play the role in French — and H2 in Nathalie Sarraute's Pour un oui ou pour un non, which was performed for two consecutive years at the Avignon Theatre Festival."