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Do we like Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo?

Our score: 6 out of 10. Nothing harmful or dodgy turned up, but he gives so little away that the record is too thin to score higher.

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is the quieter half of Daft Punk, the French duo who built a whole career around robot helmets and keeping their faces out of the spotlight. That anonymity is a big part of why there's so little reporting on the man himself, as opposed to the act.

The duo called it quits in 2021, and in February 2026 a new video for “Human After All” landed to mark five years since the split. It used footage from their 2006 sci-fi film Electroma, and VICE noted that talk of an anniversary project is speculation only.

Most of the explaining about the breakup has come from his bandmate Thomas Bangalter, not from him. In a 2023 BBC interview Bangalter said they were “always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology”, and that the robot story had run its course.

On the harm check, we went looking for anything he has said or done about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, public health or the climate, and for the company he keeps. Nothing harmful came up in what we could open, and no court cases or allegations did either. That's partly because he almost never speaks publicly, so call it clean but thin rather than a glowing reference.

On the good stuff, we couldn't verify charity work or kind acts from sources we could open this time, so we're not claiming any. Several outlets' pages were unavailable to our tools, and reports of a solo album are unconfirmed rumour as far as we could see.