Himiko Paganotti

Himiko Paganotti (* 1974 ) is a French electro-pop and fusion musician ( vocals , composition ).

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Paganotti comes from a family of artists: Her mother is the painter Naoko Paganotti; her father Bernard Paganotti and her brother Antoine are musicians. She took ballet lessons as a child and began singing in her youth. She gained her first professional experience in the late 1990s as a background singer in the world music band Touré Kunda . At the same time, she joined the pop-rock band Monkey Toon , where she worked as a lead singer, but also began composing.

Paganotti worked with Sixun , Patrick Gauthier , 13NRV , Juan Rozoff, Régis Ceccarelli and Coco Mbassi . For seven years she was a member of the Zeuhlband Magma , with which various albums have been created since 2006. With the pianist Emmanuel Borghi, her life partner, she left Magma in 2012 to found the electro-pop duo Paghistree . Together with the guitarist John Trap they then worked in the trio Slug , with whom they recorded two albums. With Borghi, her father and brother, she founded the group Himiko in 2014 , which released the album Nebula in 2017 . She also worked with Céline Bonacina ( Open Heart 2013), Nguyên Lê , Sophia Domancich , John Greaves and can be heard as a soloist in Michael Mantler's Comment c'est .

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SURNAME	Paganotti, Himiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French electro-pop and fusion musician (vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH	1974