Macha Gharibian

Pianist with a delicate touch--having been classically trained from an early age, singer, songwriter, composer, arranger & producer of her own albums, it was through immersing herself in the New York jazz world that Macha Gharibian has created her own universe, achieving a natural blend of all her influences : Armenian ancestry, a Parisian heart, and a New Yorker by adoption, and has forged a personal urban, crossover modern style. Music is a family tradition inherited from her singer/guitarist father.

Following up on from her first album Mars (2013), released to universal acclaim from the press which predicted “a bright future” (Libération) for Macha, her second album Trans Extended (2016) placed her music in the unclassifiable category, with a style which can only be her own, combining elements of oriental jazz with neo-classical and adventurous pop music.

Like a series of self-portraits through music and words, the titles on her third album, Joy Ascension (2020), together make up the manifesto of a free woman and an artist of her time. When her singing surges to the forefront of her atmospheric piano playing, her volcanic voice places her in the school of natural vocalists, this very exclusive club which ranges from Nina Simone to Jeanne Lee to Mélissa Laveaux.