Calling his first album “Pause”, you had to think about it. But it took time for Ehla to release a first record that looks exactly like her. The singer, who does not escape the reference to her little sister, a certain Clara Luciani, has succeeded in imposing her musical views, and her style between pop and r’n’b. A choice carefully considered, and paying off.
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She sings it very well herself on her album, on the aptly named track Authorization : “It’s over, I don’t ask permission anymore, I’m going to go straight ahead without blessing“… And she confirms it, face-to-face: “I don’t want to let anyone decide for me anymore. In fact, I’m the sole decision-maker for my project, with my label and my music teams, but that’s it.“
Ehla, so it’s first of all an infinite patience. Passionate about music since her childhood in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhone), very close to her little sister Clara Luciani, whose career she happily sees take off. And she, who records her voice in her room, “sickly shy“, she confesses, now convinced that she has finally overcome some fears with this first album, Break.
In search of the perfect sound
A paradoxical title of a first disc with multiple sounds and producers, and which is the reflection of what makes the Provençale vibrate, landed a moment ago in Paris, in pursuit of a long evanescent dream. His eyes light up:Me, I have my dad who made me listen to a lot of music very early on, a lot of Motown, soul, funk […] That’s when we need music the most, when we’re teenagers“.
I was a teenager in the 2000s and there was a big boom in R’n’B in the United States and I remember the trip to college with my little CD player listening to Brandy or Aaliyah.
And in the search for the perfect sound, this music enthusiast was greatly inspired by the Canadian producer and DJ, Kaytranada: “It is a model for me, really, I am extremely a fan. He is someone who inspires me enormously. Indeed, I couldn’t put it in any musical category, it’s quite electronic, but there is a groove such that you could put it in R’n’B somewhere. I think I like the fact that I’m nowhere and you can’t tell ‘Hey, that’s it'”.
And if it took her a while to really find a way to be heard, Ehla is now perfectly in tune with her voice. Original and refreshing, it would have been a shame not to distribute it more widely.
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Hey, Break (6&7). Album available. In concert on June 6 in Paris (La Maroquinerie).