Departures of note

Pascal Dequatremare, known professionally as Tristan, was a French singer and painter born on August 3, 1958, in Paris. He first gained attention in the mid-1970s as a member of the Parisian punk rock group Guilty Razors, which released one single in 1978 before disbanding.

In 1980, he co-founded the urban art collective Les Musulmans fumants with César Maurel and Philippe Waty. The group held their first exhibition in 1981 in Paris's Marais district and remained active until 1990. Under the stage name Tristan, he launched a solo music career in 1988 with the release of his hit single "Bonne, bonne humeur ce matin." The music video, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, featured a young Vincent Cassel as an extra and included several of Dequatremare's own paintings.

He released his only studio album, "Les femmes et les enfants d'abord," in 1991 through Disques Dreyfus, but it failed to achieve commercial success. He briefly worked as a morning show host on M6 in the early 1990s before abandoning his music career to focus entirely on painting. He maintained a studio in the Croix de Chavaux neighborhood of Montreuil. Dequatremare died on August 4, 2026, in Pau, one day after his 68th birthday, from a fast-moving cancer.