Sebastien Bordeaux
Sebastien Bordeaux is an American Roots musician based out of Nashville, Tennessee. There he plays 2 weekly residency shows at the world esteemed home of country and traditional music, Robert's Western World, on lower Broadway w/ the Chris Casello Combo. Sebastien is known as a strikingly androgynous sounding singer, a deeply methodical and though provoking song-writer and a multi-instrumentalist whom plays acoustic guitar, lead guitar, upright bass, tenor banjo, trumpet, trombone, piano, drums and many more. Honing his unique soprano style voice, he does justice to the vocal tones of many artists like Hank Williams, Johnny Horton, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson and Elvis Presley. Many people have been noted saying, "Sebastien's voice takes me back to when i was a kid listening to old hillbilly music and blues records."
A Respected and Decorated Background
Sebastien is currently with Swelltune Records, preceded by the sought after Wild Records (hollywood/europe) label where he released his first debut album featuring his popular songs, "Black Magick," and "Wounds of a Fickle Heart."
Sebastien released a live album with Rockabilly band The Centuries from Los Angeles in early 2026. The Centuries also play w/ Deke Dickerson as his Whipper Snappers!
Sebastien is set to release his second album spring 2026 with Swelltune Records.
Sebastien grew up lower class with a single mom struggling as a sex worker, and part time with his father whom was constantly struggling with Schizophrenia and Bipolar illness. His father sparked his love for music, especially his taste for the old timey roots music which his music encompasses. Sebastien has 3 siblings, one of whom he watched struggle with Heroin addiction his entire life, bringing him much perspective into his adulthood. Sebastien's ethnic and ancestral background is French, Norweigian, Venezuealan and the Nez Perce tribe of Pacific Northwest.
Before his successes Sebastien would struggle to play regularly in his first professional band, putting 70-90 hours per week as an EMT on the Ambulance for 8 years.
Sebastien left behind his life-saving career after the stars lined up and he was asked to sign on to the Wild Records label. It was after this moment that things started to coincidentally fall into place.
Sebastien was shortly picked up and taken under the mentorship of American legend singer and song-writer Wayne 'the Train 'Hancock. During his years with Wayne, Bordeaux honed his craft and creativity and developed his own musical brand and style. Throughout his time spent on tours with Wayne Hancock, Sebastien would rally his own band and ride planes, trains and automobiles across the USA, Japan, Mexico and Europe.
Sebastien has played many notable festivals like Viva Las Vegas (USA), High Rockabilly (Spain), Rock Around the Atomium (Belgium), Viva Shimoda (Japan), Screamin' (Spain), and many others. He has also gained attention with international recognition in zine features like Germany's rock n roll magazine "The Unleashed." Sebastien was given national credit and respect by becoming a state of Arkansas Country Music Awards bass player nominee.
Sebastien spent many of his years experiencing different cultures, music, people, and lifestyles, even living an alternative life-style in a self built off grid solar powered school bus, where he chopped his own would in the blistering snowy hills of the Sierra Nevadas for warmth and raised his own chickens and garden to survive . He has aggressively cut his teeth with blue grassers of the Ozark mountains, Texas hillbilly swingers, French gypsy jazzers, California rock n rollers and Tennessee country troubadours.
Bordeaux has always surrounded himself by and been respected by authentic roots artists and legends. Notably, as he was summoned to Nashville, Tennesee to rub shoulders with and create music with the some of Nashville's greatest.
When interviewed by European media Sebastien was asked : "What matters to you the most when creating music and sharing it with others?"
Sebastien : "Authenticity. Without it, you're not being your true creative self. Without that, you aren't being human. Without that you can't feel. And without that you can't connect or unite others around the world through music and art."
When asked 'what authenticity is to him' Sebastien replies : "Authenticity is not making up your past , present or future in an attempt to immortalize some charlatan version of yourself. That doesn't help the common person. That doesn't fight the system. That doesn't give anyone anything genuine to relate to. The only people you're fooling is yourself and people that don't know shit about roots music. If you aren't authentic you never learn and you never grow. It's a virtue that comes of battle scars, getting beaten down, standing back up and from endurance. There's a lot of bad music and fake artists claiming false stakes about their heritage and past, and we know who they are in the music community. My goal is to be myself, make people laugh, dance, love, cry and help them plug into a real source of power through the music.
I've ridden in tour vans with the greats and I've held dying children in my arms. I've been loved and rejected. I've seen life come into the world and I have watched it drained from a person's eyes. Music has always been an escape. Come escape with me. Put down that needle, put down that bottle, make real friends and prioritize art, music and dance as proper outlets in your life."
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