In 2010, she signed a contract for her tours with Caramba and publisher Sony ATV. The pop singer Raphaël Haroche wrote her songs " Éblouie par la nuit", "Port Coton" and "La fée". Kerredine Soltani produced the album on the label "Play On" and wrote and composed the hit single " Je veux". It contains songs she wrote ("Trop sensible") and co-composed ("Les passants", "Le long de la route", "Prends garde à ta langue", "J'aime à nouveau", "Ni oui ni non"). In May 2010, French magazine Télérama announced: "Rumor has swelled in recent weeks: Zaz is an extraordinary voice, and she will be the revelation of the summer!". Every year the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognize the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year. She worked in the studio as a backing singer in Toulouse and performed with many singers, including Maeso, Art Mengo, Vladimir Max, Jean-Pierre Mader, and Serge Guerao. She became one of the four singers of Izar-Adatz (Basque for "Shooting Star"), a variety band which consisted of sixteen people with whom she toured for two years, especially in the Midi-Pyrenees and the Basque Country. She sang in musical groups in Angoulême, especially in a jazz quintet. In 2001, she started her singing career in the blues band "Fifty Fingers". Zaz performing with Benoit Simon at the TFF Rudolstadt festival in 2011 Her musical influences included 'Four Seasons' by Vivaldi, jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, and other singers such as Enrico Macias, Bobby McFerrin, and Richard Bona, as well as African, Latin, and Cuban rhythms. In 2000, she won a scholarship from the regional council, which allowed her to join a school of modern music, the CIAM (Centre for Musical Activities and Information) of Bordeaux. In 1995, she took singing lessons and played sports for a year in Bordeaux. She studied music theory, specifically the violin, piano, guitar, and choral singing. In 1985, she entered the Conservatoire de Tours with her sister and her brother, attending courses from the ages of 6 to 11. Her mother was a Spanish teacher, and her father worked for an electric company. Worldwide Zaz has sold over 5 million albums, including 2 million outside France. She is known for her single " Je veux", taken from her self-titled debut album, released on. Still with the Play On label, her next LP, 2018's Effet Miroir, reached the Top Five in France, Germany, and Switzerland.Isabelle Geffroy (born ), known professionally as Zaz, is a French singer and songwriter who mixes jazz, French variety, soul and acoustic. It included her highest-charting French single to that point, "Si Jamais J'oublie," which reached number 11. She followed it with the hit live album Sur la Route in 2015. The joyous results, released in 2014, resulted in Top Ten chart placings across Europe. Her third album, Paris, was conceived as a love letter to the capital and included a sequence of songs associated with Paris, including Cole Porter's "I Love Paris" (featuring Nikki Yanofsky) and Charles Trénet's "La Romance de Paris" (featuring Thomas Dutronc). Like her debut, Recto Verso went double diamond in her native France, and it was certified gold or platinum is several other European countries. One year later, she released her second album, Recto Verso. Her international following grew, and during 2012, Zaz toured throughout Europe, Japan, and Canada. Featuring a few songs written and produced by Raphaël, the album was well-received by critics and spawned the Top 40 single "Je Veux." As positive word-of-mouth spread, Zaz steadily rose to the top of the French albums chart the album eventually went double diamond in France. As Zaz, she made her full-length solo debut with a Play On-issued self-titled album in 2010. Her fourth studio LP, 2018's Effet Miroir, offered a less anachronistic and more contemporary pop-oriented sound.īorn Isabelle Geffroy on May 1, 1980, in Tours, France, she performed as a singer for much of her life. A French pop singer with a Gypsy jazz-influenced style and vocals that are often compared to those of Edith Piaf, Zaz made her chart-topping eponymous debut in 2010.
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