At the recent Victoires de la Musique awards, FS-favourites Olivia Ruiz, Emilie Simon and -M- got a statue. See pictures here, watch that nice little getup Olivia is wearing.
Ten years ago, Teri Moïse was the big winner at the Victoires. The year before, her single Les Poèmes de Michelle was a big tune, and sold over 200,000. On her untitled first album she got help from produver Etienne de Crécy. Nicolas Godin from Air plays guitar on Poèmes. That first album is still a soulful chanson gem, great lyrics too. Teri has Haitian parents, but lived in South Central, Los Angeles. She studied at Berkeley, but also literature at Sorbonne Paris. After a short period back in LA, she returned to Paris, and made a name for herself as a songwriter. I heard a rumour she was the girlfriend of Philippe Ascoli, the boss of the French Source label. In 1999, her even more soulful second album (again without a title, nice one) was released. The first song from that album has that great sixties plopping-bass-sound (Teri plays bass herself). The rest of the album is nice, but not as good as her debut-album. After the second cd, she kinda faded away, I guess, 'cause I could not find any recent news.
Teri Moïse - Les poèmes de Michelle
Teri Moïse - Il sait
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