Our 1time guest Cynthia Abraham engages in the exercise of #SessionLive for the release of his 2th album Unison (Abraham Trio).
Lulled to music since birth, Cynthia studied piano and flute. Very young, her passion for singing and the performing arts took her to jazz. After a solid academic training, she completed her apprenticeship with a Diploma in Musical Studies, and graduated from the Didier Lockwood Music Center in a professional course. At the same time, Cynthia is forging a scenic experience as rich as it is varied at the CREA (Center d’Éveil Artistique): musical, opera, French song, jazz, under the direction of Didier Grojsman.
Over the years, Cynthia begins to compose and gets involved in different groups. She broadens her repertoire towards soul, gospel, song and then takes an interest in Latin, Brazilian and Caribbean music … Fruitful encounters allow her to juggle these different styles and to always experiment with new formations, new scenes. .
His influences range from the big names in jazz (Bobby Mc Ferrin, Dianne Reeves, Gretchen Parlato) to funk tenors like Stevie Wonder, through unmissable vocal groups (Manhattan Transfer, Take 6). The soulful voices of Jill Scott, Eryka Badu and D’Angelo showed him the way. More recently, his paternal roots have nourished his compositions with artists such as Kassav, Jean-Michel Rotin, Jean-Claude Nemro.
In 2015, Cynthia released her first album Small voices with his compositions, in Quintet. Following this, she created her solo project, “Seule en Scène” and continued her residency “Carte blanche” at the Baiser salé for the 5th consecutive year. At the same time, this young singer-musician acquires a great experience alongside very different artists such as “Gospel for 100 voices”, Emmanuel Djob, the “Moov Live Show” on Radio France, Doc Gyneco, or Matt Pokora. She collaborates with artists whom she particularly likes; Pierre de Bethmann, Munir Hossn, Arnaud Dolmen, she is a backing vocalist for Chantae Cann, recorded Karl Jannuska’s disc, Mario Canonge, and joined the group of bassist Christophe Wallemme in 2017.
In 2018, she won the 1st prize of theUnisa International Jazz Voice Competition in South Africa. A journey that will mark his career as an artist.
Today, guided by the idea that the voice is an instrument in its own right, the young singer, barely in her thirties, seeks to put her voice at the service of the music of other artists, to live the nourishing experience of the “sidewoman” .
She also leads these personal projects head-on, starting with her project “Seule en Scène”, but also her family group Abraham Réunion. They release their 1st album of the same name in 2020, with his siblings of musicians. She is also the soprano of the vocal group SELKIES who are releasing their first EP Koulèr peace in 2017 and his 1st album Incantation in 2020.
In the spring of 2021, she released two singles Let it go and Watch dance from his next album Solo UNISSON which sees the light of day on October 15, 2021.
Songs performed at RFI by Cyntia Abraham solo (percussions, vocals):
– In a ring Live RFI
– Misyé Mende Feat. Sonny Troupé (from the album Unison)
– Watch Dancing see the clip
His : Mathias taylor and Benoît Letirant.
Then we get Ottilie [B] for the exit of (Living in our ropes).
Ottilie [B] initiates, produces and participates in various projects combining singing, writing, composition, Computer Assisted Music (MAO), theater, dance and performance. His musical, artistic and educational research is based on experience, presence, curiosity and the pleasure of sharing, in a close bond with the spectator. In her creations, she questions herself on how to update oral traditions and embody digital forms and sounds to (re) put technological tools at the service of the human, musical plurality, poetics, the intimate.
Exchange and collaboration are the driving forces behind her approach and push her to travel and be inspired by human, artistic and geographic encounters. Its lineage is rooted in three continents: Europe, Asia, Africa. In 2012, she joined the IN / EX cooperative in Marseille and became artistic director of her song-electro-vocal project: Ottilie [B].
His first song-electro opus O2 stories (Label: Internexterne – Du Vivant dans nos Ropes / Distribution: The Other Distribution) is elected Coup de Cœur of the Charles Cros Academy. It will be followed by a live performed by Nicolas repac, Ottilie[B] then grows his project and continues to dream the song, in version 2.0.
His second creation :Passage: was selected for Talents ADAMI (Festival Off Avignon 2017). The album was also voted Coup de Coeur of the Charles Cros Academy. She received the 1st professional prize and the 1st public prize of the “Young Talents 2018” competition – Jacques Brel de Vesoul Festival. With this live, she traveled the stages with more than 80 solo and trio concert dates.
In 2020, Ottilie [B] creates Heart, driven by its questions on the origin and function of music, language and the link between early songs and current sound processing techniques. She records her third album Heart (Label: Du Vivant! / Distribution: The Other Distribution). Initially scheduled for April 2021, the release of the disc is postponed to August 20, 2021.
For several years, Ottilie [B] develops mediation workshops for “disabled” audiences (prisons, nursing homes, hospitals, foster homes, social children’s homes, etc.) and intervenes to support creations (school, amateur practices, stage presence) . Giving her artistic gesture a social dimension becomes for her a real commitment and a necessary contribution to her practice, to her art (… of living).
Woman artist and producer, she founded Du Vivant Dans Nos Cordes, a company / production structure dedicated to live performance and artistic action in the Hautes-Alpes region, where she has lived for 15 years.
Songs played from the album
– Final feat. Oriane Lacaille see the clip
– Path of Silence.