Adèle Castillon

Adèle Castillon du Perron (French pronunciation: [adɛl kastijɔ̃]) is a French singer and actress. She was the singer in the French pop duo Videoclub from 2018 until 2021. As an actress, she appeared in the French comedy film Sous le même toit (2017), and the French thriller School's Out (2018).

Castillon was born in Angers, France on 24 October 2001.^[3] She has two siblings. As a child, Castillon started making YouTube videos and had theatre training, though she did not consider that these two correlated with each other and did not intend to use YouTube for her career prospects. For the Dissemblances media, she made her first interview of the French actress Léa Seydoux.^[4] At the age of 15, with some friends, she interviewed the Dalai Lama^[4] in Dharamshala, India.

In 2017, she played Violette Hazan in the movie Sous le même toit directed by Dominique Farrugia.^[4]

In 2018, she played Clara in School's Out directed by Sébastien Marnier.^[1]

In 2018, Castillon met Matthieu Reynaud and formed Videoclub, over their shared love of 80s nostalgia. Their channel had amassed over 20,000 subscribers before posting anything, to the suspicion of YouTube. Due to Castillon's popularity on the site, their music quickly went viral there, as well as on TikTok and Spotify.^[5][6] The group was dissolved on 31 March 2021, when Castillon and Reynaud ended their relationship.^[7] In May 2021, before the release of their album Euphories, Videoclub announced the disbandment of the group and that they would each be pursuing solo projects.^[7]

On 10 June 2022, after splitting from Videoclub, she released her first song "Impala".^[8]

On 7 April 2023, she released her second single called "Rêve" (Dream).^[9]

On 16 June 2023, she released the single "Alabama", the song is her third single as an independent artist.^[10]

On 20 october 2023, Castillon launched her first album PRD: Pleasure Risk Dependency.^[11]

On 31 May 2024, Castillon released "Ce Soir", which features rapper Gazo.^[12]

On 24 July 2024, in Seine-Saint-Denis, Adèle Castillon served as a torchbearer, relaying the flame for the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[13] On the eve of the opening ceremony, she and Gazo invited the audience at Parc Georges Valbon to a free concert in La Courneuve.^[14]

In 2025, Castillon released her second album Crèvecoeur (Heartbreaking).^[15] 'Nothing but that'.^[16]

She is currently signed to Columbia Records.^[17]

In the summer of 2025, on the enchanting Grall^[18] stage, Adèle Castillon delivered her first performance at the biggest French festival: the Vieilles Charrues.^[19] She said that her grandmother will be proud because she lives not far from the Brocéliande Forest, in the heart of rainy Central Brittany, where the festival took place. So, Adèle Castillon changed the lyrics of PRD to end with 'the Bretons'.

In Arthur Rimbaud's Charleville-Mézières, Adèle Castillon opened the Cabaret Vert Festival.^[20] Festival-goers recognized her typical silhouette, from her boots^[21] to her black sunglasses. For Lèche_vitrine_demo1.wav, Adèle Castillon played the clavier alongside Florian Robin. She transformed the audience into a giant choir.^[22] She noticed two teenagers, Lucida and Garance, by their cardboard signs. She invited them onto the Zanzibar stage to sing Impala together. Finally, Lylian Szpira delivered a drum solo causing a sensation.^[23]

Castillon's musical style draws inspiration from that of Billie Eilish.^[1]

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Foreword: Notice from the album PRD is a piece composed by Benoît Heitz also known as Surkin.^[32] It is not a song but a recording of voices. The introduction of each concert features a phone call from Castillon's father, Benoît Castillon Du Perron talking to his daughter in this note.^[33]

He wrote a book over the course of ten years, titled Mourir avec la rivière (English: 'Dying with the River').

Castillon revealed in Paulette Grisoni's podcast "La leçon" that the couple was already separated before the separation of the group Videoclub.

She also reveals a hard breakup, including her break with the family of her ex-boyfriend and ex-partner Matthieu Reynaud.^[34] Castillon revealed the reason for the breakup on TikTok, but deleted the videos some days after.

She appreciates dinosaurs.^[21] On her arm, there is a tattoo in shape of dinosaur with the caption: 'J'ai vraiment la grosse tête' (I really have an egghead like Humpty Dumpty).^[35]

She hates spiders:^[35] it is not directly her but Adèle Crève-cœur^[29] who is featured in the eponymous animated music video directed by Josselin Facon.

According to the French daily newspaper L'Humanité,^[36] her album Crèvecoeur is a tribute to her mother's name.^[37]

Adèle Castillon adores cats.^[21] On 7 December 2014, she opted for Nyan Cat (「にゃ」, which stands for meow) about the trailer of her YouTube channel,^[38] instead of Hello Kitty 「ハロー・キティ」 or Cheshire Cat. The newspaper Le Monde reports her channel is named 'Adèle ta chérie d'amour' (Adèle, your darling love).^[5]

The film director Elliot Aubin filmed her, crossing the river^[38] in the Japanese garden of Nantes, near the white Chashitsu 「茶室」, for the Mad Tea^[39] Party on Versailles island. A connection between Napoleon and Amour plastique is that this island is a result of the Nantes–Brest canal^[40] built under Napoleon’s orders. The first part of the trailer is more melancholic, with the cry of a black crow^[38] announcing the Crèvecoeur's mood.

One night, she added another tattoo in English: 'I'm trying to figure out,'^[35] beneath her dinosaur tattoo. She doesn’t remember why she chose it. She will eventually remove it. That evening, she felt like she was in another world:

Like a Tibetan^[41] cat, "Adèle Castillon has already lived a thousand lives."^[21]

Either she grew up too fast,^[4] like the Disaster Girl (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), or she survived multiple medication overdoses^[42], the "night, very late,"^[12] in slow motion, bathed in the hypnotic bluish glow of her computer before heading to school. She gets help to wean herself off.^[43]

She rediscovers the desire to create PRD: Pleasure Risk Dependency.^[11]

She likes race cars.^[44]

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• Adèle Castillon at IMDb