May 20: Zaz: Jazz et la Chanson (premiere)

If your livelihood depends on the people in the street, which is the case when you earn your money as a street musician in Paris, you’d better find out what your audience wants to hear. If you’re able to enthrall audiences from as far off as Siberia and Egypt with songs made famous by Edith Piaf, you must have embraced the true soul of chanson. And if, even after climbing the Mont Blanc, you still have the energy to sing and jam at the peak, then the sleepless nights of show business will leave you unharmed. It is unusual to find all these qualities combined in one person – but the French vocalist Zaz has them all! May 20 – 21:30 CEST: Zaz: Jazz et la Chanson Born in 1980 in Tours in the Loire Valley, the French chanteuse Zaz revives the genre of the French chanson. In this Baloise Session from Basel, Switzerland, Zaz gives the music all its original impact, lending it new expressions, and infusing it with her charming nonchalance, backed up by her extensive and varied stage experience.