As a child, Laura Cahen learnt to play the piano and guitar, wrote her first songs at an early age, and did what she almost had to do as the offspring of a highly musical family: create. Nevertheless, it took many years before she became known to the wider public as a 27-year-old artist with her debut, “Nord” (2017), and promptly released one of the most exciting art-pop albums that France would see in the 2010s. A delicately balanced timbre, incredibly adventurous arrangements that lie somewhere between pop and nouvelle chanson, classical sounds, and jazz characterise Cahen’s stylistic language, which she has presented at Deutschlandfunk Kultur as well as in the Kantine am Berghain. Diversity is written into Cahen’s artistic DNA. Her subsequent albums – “Une Fille” (2021) and “Des Filles” (2023) – also show the French singer and guitarist to be a true poet with a penchant for eclecticism. At the same time, however, there is always an idiosyncratic, friendly melancholy that transforms her songs into something different every time you listen to them.