\u00c9milie Satt<\/strong> and Jean-Karl Lucas<\/strong>\u00a0met each other\u00a0in a Parisian bar in 2008. Then, the two\u00a0songwriters\u00a0have never stopped composing songs together. In 2013, they\u00a0formed Madame Monsieur<\/strong>,\u00a0a unique electro pop duo on\u00a0the French music scene, and they\u00a0released their first EP\u00a0entitled\u00a0Malibu Ep<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The duo doesn’t like to be pigeonholed\u00a0and doesn’t hesitate to mix genres:\u00a0inspired by French music<\/strong>, Anglo-Saxon pop<\/strong> and urban music<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00c9milie and Jean-Karl have worked in collaboration with rappers like Youssoupha\u00a0and Disiz, the jazz trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf, and other artists with whom they released their second EP, Tandem<\/em><\/strong>, in November 2016.<\/p>\n 2018\u00a0marks a turning point in the history of Madame Monsieur:\u00a0in addition to the release of their first studio album Vu d’ici<\/strong><\/em> at the end of April, a concert in Paris this summer and a tour in November, the duo won the TV show Destination Eurovision<\/strong> with the song “Mercy<\/strong>” which is the true story of a girl born on a humanitarian ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n After their qualification in the\u00a0second semi-final of Destination Eurovision, noted by a jury of French and international professionals, Madame Monsieur won the final thanks to the public votes<\/strong> (28.10%). So, the duo will represent France on Saturday 12 May<\/strong>\u00a0at the Eurovision Song Contest\u00a02018<\/strong> held at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.<\/p>\nFrench contestants at Eurovision Song Contest 2018<\/h5>\n