Suzane

Born in 1990 in Avignon,^[1][2] Suzane grew up in Les Angles in a marriage made up of a nurse and a civil servant.^[3] Both instilled in her from an early age her interest in music, with the help of artists such as Fréhel, Édith Piaf, Barbara, and Jacques Brel.^[4] When she was five years old,^[5] she started classical dance^[6] and from the age of eight she studied singing and music theory.^[7] During her adolescence, she combined her arts course at the institute with the Grand Avignon Conservatory of Music.^[8] After the death of a friend of hers during class, she fell into depression and abandoned her studies.^[9]

During the following years she worked different jobs, such as a supermarket cashier or waitress in a diner in Montpellier.^[5] In 2014 she decided to move to Paris,^[3] to the 20th arrondissement, where she spent four years working in restaurants and bars.^[10] At the same time, she resumed her artistic career,^[11] took singing lessons and began writing her first songs.^[5]

In 2017, while she was still working at the bar, she met producer Chad Boccara, who gave her a chance after reading her lyrics.^[12] Colom decides to adopt Suzane as her stage name in honor of her grandmother^[3][13] and in 2018 she publishes her first two singles under her new pseudonym,^[14] “L'Insatisfait”^[15] and "La Flemme".^[16] That year she performs for the first time in public.^[3] Throughout 2019, she toured throughout the country, participating in 32 festivals^[12] (including the Festival des Vieilles Charrues) and performing more than 200 concerts,^[17] including some dates in China and Japan with the French Alliance.^[7][18] She became the French artist with the most performances in 2019,^[8] without having released an album until then.^[3]

In mid-2019 she signed with the 3e bureau record label, a subsidiary of Wagram Music,^[7] with which she released her first EP, Suzane.^[9] Two of the album's songs, "Suzane"^[13] and "Il est où le SAV?",^[8] had some success on the Internet.^[9] Her first studio album, titled Toï Toï, went on sale in early 2020.^[13] The title of the album refers to a German expression that brings good luck^[12] and contains fifteen tracks with texts on feminist^[13][10] and environmentalist themes.^[19] Suzane received great media enthusiasm,^[20] becoming the "sensation artist" of 2020.^[21] She performed as a headliner at the Olympia in Paris and at Le Trianon,^[13][6] in addition to being awarded "Best New Artist" at the 35th Victoires de la Musique ceremony.^[22]

In 2021, Suzane published a reissue of Toï Toï,^[23] which features new singles, including "Pendant 24 h" with Grand Corps Malade^[24] and "La Vie dolce" with DJ Feder.^[25] During the next few months, she continues with the tour while composing new songs for her second album, Caméo , released on November 4, 2022.^[26] Her three promotional singles were "Clit Is Good", " Belladona” and “A ticket pour la Lune”.

Suzane came out of the closet during her adolescence, being openly lesbian since high school.^[4] She is an environmentalist^[6] and feminist activist,^[13] committed to the #NousToutes collective.^[10] In the 2017 presidential election, she voted blank and explained that she had not found a candidate "who really listened to the people."^[3]