I am an electro-pop singer, I’m French and I’m based in new York. There is so many things to do it’s kind of hard for me to say something. I’ve lived in many places and here I am releasing this album. Which is kind of a result of the different things I’ve done in my life so far, and different experiences as far as music goes and performing and living in different places.

I would say it’s a mix of electronic and live sounds. Meaning acoustic sounds, it’s somewhere between Bjork and Brazilian Girls and maybe French sixties pop.

No, they all mean as much. It’s a very…it’s about the moment , writing lyrics or writing music. Its almost like the last one that’s spoke is the always the one strongest because it’s the one that’s closest to your emotional state. Or the one that makes…of course its emotions and life experiences that make you write music or lyrics and of course the last song you wrote is the closest to you because you hear the words or the music and you can feel the same emotion that made you write the music. It’s always, in the way I would say, it’s always the last song that is the strongest. But I have no preferences, really.

I have many many goals and desires. Touring more, playing festivals, making another record. Making a big visual set-up for the show. That will probably happen on the next record because this is something … I come from a very dance and visual background so it’s an entire part of what I want to do. Just basically waiting for the opportunity that will allow me to realize my ideas. It’s not like, you know, with music you can basically, I mean of course it requires a lot of money, but you can always make music in like a home studio . but if you want to start to bring, say a beautiful visual production on stage. That’s one of my goals, to be able to put that together. And of course you know, writing more and more music.

I think we have have a very strong live show. It took a while to get together because it’s not the easiest thing to bring together electronic music and live music in a way that is really working. And it really took us like, two years to get where we are and it took me a lot of musicians. I am really lucky because I’m working with extremely talented musicians. One is from Canada and the other two are American, but I had a lot of drummers and bass players, but the band that I have now, that I have had for about a year and a half is really excellent. The live aspect is not really a big part of the writing so far. But it’s really something I’ve worked on and we’ve been touring. We’ve toured Europe and we really have…it’s one of our biggest assets. And I am coming from a theatrical background. I was a dancer at one point and I was an actress for quite a while in France, so I’m really coming from the performing side not only as a musician. I’m coming and singing my songs, for me it’s important to bring whatever it is that’s theatrical and I think I do it in a way that nobody really does it. My own way and I’ve had all these experiences and I think it is a very particular performance because there is a lot of movement and I don’t have a classic voice or a voice people usually hear. So I think it’s a mix of a really really strong band, and a lot of playing that makes the performance and we really enjoy doing it.

We were in Germany playing a festival. Really huge festival in august and that was really incredible. There was some really amazing bands. Like, twenty thousand people in a day and that was really great. There are lots of little moments when you go from stage a to stage b and just being on stage and doing a good show and being connected to the audience. I would say there’s been a lot of them and for me that’s what’s important.

Facing the state of the music business and having to do a lot of things, you know you start and you think somebody is going to pick you up and make somebody out of you and just going to see your talent and babysit you. And this really isn’t what happens, especially when you have a particular vision and a particular taste and you’ve…I’m quite stubborn and I have my own ways and it’s been a tough start, I have to say facing the…I would say sometimes the stability of this business and how to find a way around it. It’s been hard, but it’s been a very interesting challenge at the same time. I think (900) that’s actually one thing problems can bring you solutions and then you do things a different way and then it becomes more interesting. I have to say that it’s been hard. Like finding a way to put the record out and all of that. And a lot of unfulfilled promises from business people.

Just being alive, you know? And hearing other artists and being alive. Meeting people. Exchange with people.

Yes, that’s a big part of it. But also the writing. And personal relationships with people and the emotions and the beauty or disappointment or sadness or joy that everybody feels is what nourishes my creativity, I have to say.

It’s been good. I’m going to be honest with you, I don’t read the critics.

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It’s just hard to, all my friends are like, “You have to read them because 99% excellent,” but I don’t. I stay away from that. I just know that I’ve had a lot of notes on Myspace and people seem really into it. It’s my first full length album so it’s really, you know, I have had fans from the roads and obviously I have an audience in New York and we’ve a lot in Europe. I have an EP and this is really like my first official full length debut. I have released two records with another band before, but I have to say this project, it’s really the first full length thing coming out.

Extremely. It’s changing every day, every performance. I basically wrote and recorded the music before I released it live. Then I released these EPs and then I had a full version of the album and I started to play live and I realized there was something I could really bring with the live element, so by spending a lot of time at this club Nublu, where the Brazilian Girls started, I basically discovered, I wouldn’t say the melodic part, that hasn’t changed that much, but the rhythm part. The groove, and stuff that would be way more organic than the bass that was very straight. This made a huge change in the music, and you know, from the first time we played it live, until now it’s like, not completely different. But it has evolved and grew stronger in a very noticeable way.

I would say there is an interesting point, which is that I’ve collaborated with a lot of people, but at the end of the day I am the writer/producer and I play maybe 70% of the parts on the record. And I think it makes it interesting because, and I’m not denying the fact that really, some people have thrown incredible things to the music. My brother has programmed some of the electronic parts. There is another producer that u worked with on two songs and was somehow my mentor and introduced me to music programs. Then there is my ex-producer in Paris who really involved a lot of himself personally to push me to do this and amazing musicians. But at the end of the day I’ve really been the producer of the album in the way that I go home with the tracks and do the editing and I completely kind of build it from scratch and the only thing I didn’t get involved with was the mastering because they wouldn’t let me.

(Laughs)

But I mean, I always got one of the very old school incredible mixing guy, after trying three mixing people that I was not happy with and I went in ad mixed with Jason Corsaro. He mixed a bunch of 80’s Madonna records. He is really a serious guy and I was there almost every minute. I mean like, letting people do their thing, but I have a very precise Idea of what I want to hear. So I think that kind of what makes the music maybe very unique. It’s because it all comes from one source in a way. And I think sometimes collaborations can be magical but they can also be a bit distracting. Meaning that things can go in many directions. There is definitely I direction that is me and the interesting thing is that I wasn’t trained as a composer. I wasn’t trained as a keyboard player. I wasn’t really trained as a singer and all of that is kind of self-taught. I had had lots of others. I was trained as a cellist, I was in a musical environment. I was a dance. I have all of that in me, but I am coming from another way then maybe people who went to music school and know how to compose chords. I don’t know any of these things. I’m kind of handling it myself. It’s like when you have to do something different because you don’t know the tricks basically. And I think that’s what makes it unique in a way. And very often people tell me, ‘Oh maybe you should work with so and so and they would make songs for you,’ and I’m like, yah I would do that on the side, but for me the joy of doing this is to conceptualize the whole thing. I mean, I don’t conceptualize actually, but you know, putting all the pieces together and build every part of it. And I’m not really interested in somebody doing a commercial dance heat for me. I’ll only do it because I think it’s exciting and it would probably bring something to me, as a like, make me richer, because when you work with people you get a lot of material for yourself. I like to work with people, but it’s not like, oh I’m looking for the band or the producer who is going to make me a great product. People come back with these kinds of demands. There are two sides, people who tell me to never do this and other people are like, ‘why don’t you?’ I get somebody who is like a super strong producer. I’m actually looking for a producer for the next record. But I really want someone who can push what I am doing a little bit further, but not take it in another direction.

Yeah. It’s like in graphic design, some people have more techniques. I am very slow because I do everything. I am not a bad technician, but I am not amazing because, you can only be so many things. People have the specialty. But it’s a thin line between giving up what you really want to say and getting to say what you say.