Bob Sinclar is a figment of the imagination of "Chris The French Kiss" the
31 year old Paris DJ behind club hits like "Gymtonic", "The Ghetto" and the
recent smash "I Feel For You". "Bob is an alter ego for me" he says. "It
was important for me to have fun and relive that disco era. So I wanted to
invent a character who was like a porn star or a disco hero or a spy - a
James Bond parody, but cool, like the Fonz". "I was into music from the
first time I saw a DJ play two records together at Le Palace. It was the
happiest time of my life : hearing Todd Terry "Can You Party" and Eric B
and Rakim, "I Know You Got Soul", ?So I got into hip hop". In 1994 Chris
started the influential Yellow Productions, with his friend DJ Yellow.
Signing artists like Dimitri From Paris, they were the first French label
to branch out into the funky disco groove that we came to recognize as the
mid 90s French sound. By 1998 he was moving away from acid jazz with his
own Bob Sinclar project and released his debut LP on Yellow, causing
dancefloor hysteria with the Jane Fonda - sampling "Gymtonic" and the deep
soulful groove of "The Ghetto".

Now, two years later with "Champs ElysÈes" he's moved on to a more
sophisticated sound that's aiming for more than just dancefloor popularity.
"The first album was just a set of tracks", he admits now. "I hurried to
get it out. It was not thought out as an album. This album I did over one
whole year from A-Z". And it shows.