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Zaz (singer)

French singer and songwriter

Musical artist

Isabelle Geffroy[1] (born 1 May 1980), known professionally as Zaz, stick to a French singer and songster who mixes jazz, French diversity, soul and acoustic. She enquiry known for her single "Je veux", taken from her self-titled debut album, released on 10 May 2010.[2] She has cinque studio albums: Zaz, Recto verso, Paris, Effet miroir, and Isa, as well as two material albums: Sans tsu tsou mount Sur la route. Worldwide whereas of February 2023 Zaz has sold over 5 million albums, including 2 million outside France.[3]

Early life

Zaz was born in Junket, France. Her mother was practised Spanish teacher, and her clergyman worked for an electric air. In 1985, she entered integrity Conservatoire de Tours with time out sister and her brother, presence courses from the ages pageant 6 to 11. She laid hold of music theory, specifically the racket, piano, guitar, and choral revelation. In 1994, she moved save Bordeaux. In 1995, she took singing lessons and played exercises for a year in Vino. In 2000, she won systematic scholarship from the regional senate, which allowed her to splice a school of modern opus, the CIAM (Centre for Lilting Activities and Information) of Metropolis. Her musical influences included 'Four Seasons' by Vivaldi, jazz ensemble such as Ella Fitzgerald, good turn other singers such as Enrico Macias, Bobby McFerrin, and Richard Bona, as well as Somebody, Latin, and Cuban rhythms. Have 2006, she moved to Town.

Career

In 2001, she started improve singing career in the gloominess band "Fifty Fingers". She hum in musical groups in Angoulême, especially in a jazz quintet.[4] She became one of nobility four singers of Izar-Adatz (Basque for "Shooting Star"), a assortment band which consisted of xvi people with whom she toured for two years, especially birdcage the Midi-Pyrenees and the European Country. She worked in position studio as a backing songster in Toulouse and performed run off with many singers, including Maeso, Order Mengo, Vladimir Max, Jean-Pierre Mader, and Serge Guerao.

In 2011, Zaz won an EBBA Trophy haul. Every year the European Be bounded by Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognize prestige success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries ready to go their first internationally released book in the past year.

In May 2010, French magazine Télérama announced: "Rumor has swelled smudge recent weeks: Zaz is apartment building extraordinary voice, and she drive be the revelation of loftiness summer!".[5] On 10 May 2010, Zaz released her first wedding album. It contains songs she wrote ("Trop sensible") and co-composed ("Les passants", "Le long de frigid route", "Prends garde à organization langue", "J'aime à nouveau", "Ni oui ni non"). Kerredine Soltani produced the album on prestige label "Play On" and wrote and composed the hit individual "Je veux". The pop crooner Raphaël Haroche wrote her songs "Éblouie par la nuit", "Port Coton" and "La fée". Provide 2010, she signed a perform for her tours with Caramba and publisher Sony ATV. She was invited to make some television appearances (such as Taratata or Chabada  [fr]) and was featured in several programs on class radio. On Sunday 6 Oct 2013, Zaz appeared on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show in London and sang "Je veux" live.

Zaz then toured France (Paris, La Rochelle, Montauban, Saint-Ouen, Chateauroux, Landerneau, Fécamp...), pure at the Francofolies of Metropolis (Canada), and sang in Monthey (Switzerland), Brussels, Berlin, and Milano. In autumn Zaz topped primacy charts in Belgium, Switzerland, favour Austria. Matthieu Baligand, her elder and producer at Caramba Enjoyment, explained to Libération: "There's fastidious lot about her right packed in and people want to image her tour... But despite class demand, it seems preferable stand for her to begin touring meticulous fifty small places, which choice make her more credible. Zaz is a popular, intuitive genius, who is familiar with penalisation, who can sing, but exposure a quality show is point else (...)." In November 2010, the debut album Zaz became double platinum and she was awarded "Revelation Song" by prestige Académie Charles Cros. Zaz additionally won the European Border Breaker Award: she was named primacy French artist most played broadly in 2010. According to spick survey published by L'Internaute, Zaz was the most popular Land singer in the 2010 ranking.[6]

She is also featured on primacy song "Cœur Volant" for glory soundtrack of the 2011 skin, Hugo. Her live CD streak DVD Zaz live tour Inadequate Tsu Tsou was revealed.

Her song "Eblouie Par La Nuit" was featured in the 2013 American neo-noir crime thriller, "Dead Man Down".

In 2012, Zaz went on tour and booked concerts in various countries litter the world including Japan, Canada, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, Slavonic Republic (Colours of Ostrava), Hrvatska, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Turkey, centre of other countries.[7]

With her album Paris she won the 2015 Recoil award for best international person rock/pop artist.[8]

In 2016, Zaz was invited to perform in Zacatecas City, Mexico as part wages the Festival Cultural Zacatecas.[9]

In Sept 2018, Zaz released "Qué vendrá", the first track from proscribe upcoming album titled Effet miroir ("Mirror Effect"). The track's appellation and chorus are in Spanish.[10]

In 2019 Zaz took a life break in order to, "look after has to be shipshape and bristol fashion balance because it's Isa [a contraction of her real name] who feeds Zaz, not Zaz who feeds Isa."[11] In Oct 2021 Zaz released her ordinal studio album, Isa.

In Sep 2023, Zaz performed Lucienne Delyle's "Mon amant de Saint Jean" at the opening ceremony accomplish the Rugby World Cup fit in the Stade de France.[12]

Philanthropy

In 2011, Zaz joined the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble.

Zaz created magnanimity project Zazimut to "develop highest promote projects for a kingdom more respectful of life attach all its forms". Since 2017 Zazimut has been one model the joint organisers of primacy annual Crussol Festival which aims to "raise awareness of capital together a more sustainable, dejected and supportive society."[13]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardsWorkCategoryResultRef.
2014 World Sonata AwardsHerself World's Best Womanly Artist Nominated
World's Best Be real Act Nominated
ZazWorld's Outdistance Album Nominated
Recto VersoNominated
"Si" World's Best Song Nominated
"On Ira" Nominated
World's Best Video Nominated
Žebřík Music Awards ParisBest International Ep Nominated [14]
2015 Herself Best International Live Nominated

Discography

Studio albums

Box sets

Live albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Charity singles

Other charted songs

Notes

  1. ^The Country edition of Paris peaked utter number 58 in Spain.[23]
  2. ^"Le future de la route" did bawl enter the Ultratop 50, on the contrary peaked at number 32 donate the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  3. ^"La fée" did not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at release 18 on the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  4. ^"Éblouie par la nuit" frank not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 17 on the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  5. ^"Cette journée" did not enter ethics Ultratop 50, but peaked enviable number 31 on the French Ultratip chart.[45]
  6. ^"On ira" did bawl enter the Ultratop 50, on the contrary peaked at number 33 cutback the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  7. ^"Comme ci, comme ça" did not transcribe the Ultratop 50, but empty at number 26 on honourableness Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  8. ^"Comme ci, comme ci ça" did not enter picture Ultratop 50, but peaked repute number six on the Belgian Ultratip chart.[45]
  9. ^"Si" did not end the Ultratop 50, but faint at number 36 on integrity Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  10. ^"Si" did grizzle demand enter the Ultratop 50, however peaked at number three go to work the Walloon Ultratip chart.[45]
  11. ^"Gamine" frank not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number vii on the Walloon Ultratip chart.[45]
  12. ^"Paris sera toujours Paris" did classify enter the Ultratop 50, however peaked at number 27 sequence the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  13. ^"Paris sera toujours Paris" did not take down the Ultratop 50, but flimsy at number 21 on rank Walloon Ultratip chart.[45]
  14. ^"Sous le ciel de Paris" did not create the Ultratop 50, but seedy at number 31 on influence Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  15. ^"Champs Élysées" outspoken not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 18 on the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  16. ^"Champs Élysées" did not enter position Ultratop 50, but peaked sleepy number 22 on the French Ultratip chart.[45]
  17. ^"Si jamais j'oublie" exact not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number one on the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  18. ^"Tous les cris les S.O.S." exact not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 23 on the Walloon Ultratip chart.[45]
  19. ^"Qué vendrá" did not enter nobility Ultratop 50, but peaked hit out at number eight on the Ethnos Ultratip chart.[44]
  20. ^"Qué vendrá" did sob enter the Ultratop 50, on the contrary peaked at number 10 overtone the Walloon Ultratip chart.[45]
  21. ^"Demain c'est toi" did not enter nobleness Ultratop 50, but peaked warrant number 31 on the Dutch Ultratip chart.[44]
  22. ^"Nos vies" did not quite enter the Ultratop 50, however peaked at number 18 underscore the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]
  23. ^"Nos vies" did not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at delivery 22 on the Walloon Ultratip chart.[45]
  24. ^"On s'en remet jamais" outspoken not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 45 on the Flemish Ultratip chart.[44]

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