Biography

Along her classical studies, she meets Christiane Legrand (French singer and sister to Michel Legrand), and makes her débuts in a Parisian cabaret “le canotier du pied de la butte”, and soon takes the path of Music Hall performing as leading showgirl on the stages of French casinos.
She loves (from a very early stage) musical eclecticism and nurtures herself through the mix of styles.
Musical Comedy takes her onto the stage of l’Olympia, songs to the Hotel de Ville of Paris, Palais des Glaces, Théatre du Gymnase and the Sentiers des Halles, the a cappella vocal quartet “parisan way” brings her to Tokyo and Osaka (2005, 2006, 2007), the operetta to the Opéra Comique for three waltzes Trois Valses (directed by Jean-Louis Grinda) and La Périchole (Directed by Jérome Savary in 2006 & 2007). Her path comes across this of Delphine Productions for her first recording.

In 2007, she creates with her friend and director Stéphane Ly-Cuong, the musical show “C’est toujours ça de pris ! (i.e. “C’est toujours ça de pris !” that can be translated into well at least that’s something!”) inspired from the title of a famous song by the french Music-Hall artist Marie Dubas. They mix the universes of Lyrical singing and cabaret by exploring the repertoire of the songs of Yvette Guilbert, Marie Dubas and Yvonne Printemps. The show was played more than a 100 times in tiny theaters in and outside of Paris, during the Off festival in Avignon. Vanessa was accompanied by the pianists Tristan Michel and Stéphanie Fontanarosa.

During one of these performance in 2011 she meets FY Solstice. The record Company FY Solstice prints her first featured record “Les Anges Musiciens”, released in September 2012. The artistic director is Jean Jacques Cubaynes.

In 2013 and 2014, she is Eurydice in Orphée, the popular opera by Daniel Tosi, and is invited by the Festival Déodat at Severac together with the pianists François Michel Rignol and Stéphanie Fontanarosa. With the art company «Transe Express”, its giant dolls and drums, she flies to the festival of Riga in Latvia, the International Deventer Op stelten in Netherlands and the Picadilly Circus Circus in London.

In 2015, she is Julie in the Opera “Messidor” by Daniel Tosi. With the company “Transe Express”, she sings for the celebration of the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong, then in Dublin at the Galway International Arts Festival. This same year, she enters the IsdaT (Higher institute of Art, Toulouse) and unveils her work of musical creation in a workshop the “Fabrique du Mirail”.

In 2016, she continues her work at the IsdaT (Higher institute of Art, Toulouse), and takes part to the creation of a sound installation by Hélène Maigné taking place at the Musée des Augustins (Toulouse) performing the Folk Songs of Berio.

She gets her degree in vocal performance from IsdaT in 2017, and carries on her writing work and musical creation work.

In 2018, 2019, 2020, she extends her contract with the art company “Transe Express” for the opera in the street and follows the show across the world (Taiwan, Turkey, Romania, Germany, Colombia, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Thailand).

The year 2019 is dedicated to the creation of Dialog #2 and Dialog#5 based on the theme of “Movement, Music and transversality” made possible thanks to the encounter of Elsa Marquet Lienhart and Carole Fives.

In 2019, she also takes part to the new creation by the “Transe Express” company: “Les Pervenches” (i.e. The Periwinkles). The creation is performed in June 2020.

In 2020, and 2021, she composes, performs and produces “Cascades” an album of 11 Electro Jazz songs, recorded by a trio composed of herself, Rémi Ploton (Keyboard and Machines) and Nazim Aliouche (Percussion and Guitar).

In 2021 and 2022, she collaborates with the collective “Resonances” and composes 6 songs for women’s voices to be sung a cappella to illustrate the collective’s wood sculptures, painting, numerical artworks, poems and installations.

2022 is a year full of creations and collaborations, she travels the world with the Giant Dolls of the Trance Express: in Dubai EXPO 2020, on the island of Procida for the celebration of the Italian Capital of Culture 2022, at the international festivals of: Novid Sad Serbia, Porsgrunn Norway, Cuneo Italy, Super Bloom Munchen Germany, Island of Rhodes Greece, Melechen Belgium…

In 2022, she sings in the new creation Le Banquet des Temps Futurs at the Festival Aujourd’hui Musiques Archipel Theater Perpignan with composers Alex Augé and Franck Garcia.

In 2023, she released the album Cascades with Inouie Distribution and continues his solo and collaborative writing work, great shows are on the way.

Translated by Armelle Cozic