Marc Rebillet

Marc Rebillet is an American electronic musician and YouTuber originating from Dallas, Texas and currently based in New York City. He is known for improvising electronic songs that feature comical lyrics. Rebillet primarily distributes his work through YouTube videos in which he uses a loop station, keyboard, vocals, and percussion instruments to produce his songs in his apartment. He also has released two studio albums, Marc Rebillet and Europe, and two extended play records, Loop Daddy and Loop Daddy II.

Rebillet started playing piano at age four, and studied classical music until age 15 while attending Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.He dropped out of Southern Methodist University after one year of studying acting. Rebillet then worked in other sectors for ten years, including in a corporate call center, while producing music unsuccessfully under the name "Leae".

In 2007, Rebillet was profiled on Fox 4 in Dallas after lining up to be first to buy an iPhone during its initial release. A woman paid Rebillet $800 for his spot in the front of the line, attempting to buy many phones to resell. The plan backfired because of the store's policy that only allowed one iPhone per customer.

Rebillet's professional music career began in 2016, when he began publishing YouTube videos of himself improvising songs in his bedroom, apartment, and hotel rooms. These videos began to go viral through Reddit and Facebook, generating a fan base. His first live shows took place in 2017 in bars in his native Dallas, Texas.He subsequently moved to New York to further develop his music career. Describing how his online presence quickly increased his fanbase, Rebillet told an interviewer:

It happened very, very quickly...the whole online thing just took off in this very aggressive way. Like, people around the world just started sharing my stuff on Facebook primarily, and my audience on Facebook went from 7,000 or 10,000 followers to, within a week or two, 50,000. Then it was 100,000. And it just kept climbing! And with that spike came all of these booking requests from all over the world that I really had no clue how to deal with or what to do with.

Starting in 2019, Rebillet has performed on tours in the United States and Europe. Rebillet's live shows are energetic, interactive, and almost entirely improvised, with very little material being repeated from show to show. Explaining his approach to performance, Rebillet said, "I think up a couple of ideas, make some observations through the day, think of something that’s germane to the crowd I’m playing to, I use those things as seedlings for song ideas." The Dublin Gazette called Rebillet "a man who’s thoughtful far beyond his output. A considered artist, having fun." The Irish Examiner called Rebillet a "DJ/comedian/one-person emotional meltdown" and called his live performance "unnerving and very engaging". Tyler Hicks of the Dallas Observer said that "few performers can match the zealous intensity".

In August 2019, Billboard named Rebillet as a "Billboard Dance Emerging Artist", writing that Rebillet creates "sexy hooks", "sensual R&B burners", and "hip-hop-tinged funk creations".

In December 2019, Shacknews awarded Rebillet the "Do it for Shacknews Award 2019", saying that he rose to a "surprising level of Internet notoriety" in 2019. Shacknews CEO Asif Khan wrote: "The popularity of his very experimental style to creating music is inspiring to the countless part-time studio musicians who are out there on the Internet. Marc's ability to build a community has lead to [sic] pockets of cheerleaders appearing all over the place these days."

Rebillet's music is defined by his use of a Boss RC-505 loop station, which allows him to layer his voice with keyboards, tambourines, and other hand percussion instruments. Most of his songs are improvised, and include elements of funk, soul, hip hop, and house music, as well as comedy skits. Nick Pagano described Rebillet's music as ranging "from soulful serenading piano ballads to funky bass licks to downright club bangers, and is always accompanied by his unique sense of humor". His lyrics tend to be comical, silly, or vulgar, enough so that he has been referred to as a comedian. Rebillet's "goofy", "nerdy", and "earnest" personality plays a role in his popularity.

Rebillet has mentioned Reggie Watts, Nina Simone, Madlib, and James Blake as sources of inspiration. Speaking about Reggie Watts, Rebillet has said, "I would not be doing this if he didn’t exist."

Solo albums

• Marc Rebillet (2018)
• Europe (2019)

Extended plays

• Loop Daddy (2018)
• Loop Daddy II (2019)

Singles

• Funk Emergency (2019)
• One More Time (2019)
• You Were There (2019)
• Work That Ass For Daddy (2019)

As Leae

• Pod 314 (with USooME) (2012)
• Rattlebrain EP (2013)
• week | ep (2013)