Laika Fatien
Laïka Fatien (born June 6, 1968 in Paris ) is a French jazz singer who has also emerged as an actress.
Live and act
Fatien has a multicultural background. Her father comes from Ivory Coast , the mother is of Moroccan- Sephardic origin. She studied jazz at the Center d'informations musicales in Paris and at Alan Silva's Institute Art Culture Perception, and then met Antonio Hart , Roy Hargrove and David Linx . She became known with the big band of Claude Bolling ; then she worked with Sixun ( Lunatic Taxi ), with Julien Lourau , Steve Williams , Antoine Roney , Michel Bowie and Richard Galliano .
Together with Bolling and his big band, she appeared in 1996 in the musical A Drum Is a Woman , dedicated to Duke Ellington , directed by Jérôme Savary at the Palais de Chaillot . In the following decade she was engaged as a stage actress several times; She also worked for the cinema, for example in Aki Kaurismäki's Das Leben der Bohème (1992), in Claude Lelouch's film Hasards ou coïncidences (1998) or in Los Sobrinos del Capitan Grant by Paco Mir .
Her debut album Look at Me Now! was published by Body & Soul in 2006. In 2008 their album Misery, A Tribute to Billie Holiday (in memory of Thomas Shipp & Abraham Smith) was released on the Blu Jazz label , on which they accompanied the saxophonist David EL Malek as well as Robert Glasper , Daryl Hall and Gregory Hutchinson . The album received very good reviews, for example from Down Beat . With a contract with Universal Music Group , she released two more albums, first Nebula (2010), produced by Meshell Ndegeocello . In 2012 came her album Come a Little Closer , which she recorded in New York with Roy Hargrove, Graham Haynes and Ambrose Akinmusire . In 2014 she was involved in Ran Blake's album Cocktails at a Dusk .
literature
- Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli : Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . R. Laffont: Paris 2011
Web links
- Web presence
- biography
- Laïka Fatien at Allmusic (English)
- Laïka Fatien at Discogs (English)
- Laïka Fatien in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review of Look at Me Now , Jazz Times , December 2006
- ↑ Misery, A Tribute to Billie Holiday at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Meeting Come a Little Closer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fatien, Laika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz singer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |