Tôt ou Tard (stylized as tôt Ou tard) is an independent French

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. It was founded in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

as a break-off from

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, and turned independent in 2002. The name of the label can be translated as "Sooner or later" in French. Vincent Frèrebeau heads the label, which has about thirty bands and artists signed to it (in 2005). In 2011, Wagram Music acquired a stake in the label and became its exclusive distributor. In September 2018,

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sold a 49% stake in Tôt ou Tard to

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. In 2024, a three-episode documentary about the label, released on YouTube, was directed by Benoît Toulemonde and Didier Varrod.

Artists signed

* Adé * Constance Amiot * Dick Annegarn * François Audrain * Mathieu Boogaerts * Françoiz Breut *

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* Da Silva *

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* Mohamed Fellag * Thomas Fersen *

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* Franck Monnet * Erza Muqoli *

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* Shaka Ponk * Roseaux * Albin de la Simone *

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* Vianney * Peter von Poehl * Patrick Watson * Wave Machines * Mentissa

Former artists

Stanley Beckford Stanley Beckford (1942–2007) was a Jamaican born mento singer, songwriter, and four time Jamaica Independence Festival song contest winner who recorded as a solo artist and with the bands The Starlights/Starlites, Stanley and the Turbines, ...

* Jeanne Cherhal *

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Pierre Perret Pierre Perret (born 9 July 1934 in Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne) is a French singer and composer. He lives in Nangis, France. Biography Perret spent much of his childhood in a café which his parents owned, where he learned to use jargon ...

* Gianmaria Testa *

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Former artists

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