Marie Foessel

Marie is an extraordinary performer who loves words as much as she loves music.In 2008, she won an acting prize at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Marseille. A multi-talented artist, she is not only an actress and singer, but also a composer. Inspired by the poetry of Fernando Pessoa, in 2015 she composed and recorded ‘Couronnez-moi’, a jazz album in French and Portuguese, with Bruno Angelini on piano and Xavier Desandre Navarre on drums (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_85gtjXrYY).

She loves singing in her mother tongue, French, and as a jazz singer she paid tribute to French composer Michel Legrand in 2006.

Her main musical experience is in a cappella music. Since 2016, she has been performing with the group Les Grandes Gueules A Capella. Alongside them, she has paid tribute to Henri Salvador and Charles Baudelaire in two vocal shows still performed today. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dxVh4X57CE).

Because Marie loves playing with the musicality of Latin languages, she is also the lead singer of the group Le Corou de Berra, where she sings in Italian and in the Nice dialect. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH_vcaB31kQ).

With this band, she recorded 3 albums : ‘Miedjou’ (which received the ‘Choc’ mention from Le Monde de la Musique), 'Calena' (Christmas songs from The french Southern Alps) and 'Maschi, femine, cantante' (a tribute to the Italian singer Fabrizio De André).