A brief stop in Paris tonight for a session/private concert by Adé – recorded at RTL2 studios on February 12th of this year.
Adé is a singer-songwriter who has become something of a phenomenon in recent years. Embracing several genres, she’s managed to gain a very large following, though she’s mostly been performing (and currently touring) around France and Belgium. So she’s not all that well known outside the French speaking world, which is a shame because her command of a sweeping sonorous voice is pretty spectacular.
A bit of information via Wikipedia about her:
Adélaïde Chabannes de Balsac, known professionally by her stage name Adé, is a French musician and singer of several genres, including folk-pop. Previously a member of the French band Therapie Taxi, in 2022 she began a solo career with her debut album, Et Alors?.
In 2013, Adé formed the pop rock band Therapie Taxi along with Raphaël Faget-Zaoui, whom she had met performing a cover of “Jimmy” by Moriarty, when she was seventeen. In 2017, having expanded the band to four members with the addition of Félix Gros and Renaud Bizart, the band released its first single, Salope. From then until the band’s breakup in 2021, Adé worked on two albums, Hit Sale and Exquisite Corpse, releasing a final EP Breakup 2 Shit in 2020. During this time, Adé also participated in two tours – on in 2019, ending at Zénith Paris, and a second which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Adé cited a lack of creative freedom for her dissolving the band, wanting a “clean slate”.
After leaving Therapie Taxi, Adé created several songs in collaboration with other artists, in with Benjamin Biolay, for Parc fermé (2021), with Nolwenn Leroy for the album La Cavale (2021)[8] as well as with Louane for the song Pleure (2020).
In April 2022, she released her first single: Tout savoir, followed by her 13-song début album So What? (French: Et alors?) on September 23, 2022, under the label Tôt ou Tard. The album was written during the COVID-19 pandemic, and contrary to the previous music she had produced in Therapie Taxi, is country folk and inspired by American country music – Adé travelled to Nashville, Tennessee to record parts of the album, wanting to experience an “American fantasy”, taking a road trip across the country after the album’s completion. In January 2023, she began a domestic tour for the album, performing in cities including Paris, Bordeaux, and Nantes, ending at the Printemps de Bourges. The album received positive feedback, with Adé being named the “new cowgirl of French pop” by Le Soir.
Tout savoir achieved success, reaching number 5 on the French Singles Chart on October 2, 2022.The song had an accompanying music video, released on YouTube, which was directed by Stéphane Barbato and produced in collaboration with Warner Chappell Music France. As of May 2023, the video had received over seven million views.
In 2022, Adé was nominated for two categories in the NRJ Music Award – Francophone Breakthrough of the Year and Francophone Video of the Year (the latter being for the music video of Tout savoir).
Okay – you got the background and the rundown – all that’s left for you to do is head over to her website, grab albums, tee-shirts and all kinds of stuff. Keep track of her whereabouts and cross your fingers, she heads over to the States to enchant everyone.
In the meantime, press Play and dive in. Adé is quite amazing.
