One to watch: Léa Sen
The French-Martiniquan musician has made waves alongside Joy Orbison and Wu-Lu. Now she is becoming a star in her own right
Léa Sen’s name is one you might be familiar with as a featured vocalist. The French-Martiniquan artist moved to London aged 20, and it paid off: in 2021, her breathy but direct vocal on Joy Orbison’s Better was constantly on the radio, while her contributions to excellent records from Wu-Lu and Oscar Jerome were also remarkable. But on her own work, the 23-year-old’s output goes beyond that.
Sen, who grew up just outside Paris, is a multi-instrumentalist as well as vocalist – her parents gave her a guitar aged 15, and she taught herself to play via the internet (her vocal style comes from singing along to the pop, R&B and jazz she heard as a kid rather than any formal training). She wrote, produced, engineered and mixed her debut EP, last year’s You of Now, Pt 1. Its slightly off-kilter, dream-pop-leaning songs featured rippling melodies and her lithe, unpolished vocal fanned out over the top, weighing up the pros and cons of where she found herself in life.
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The French-Martiniquan musician has made waves alongside Joy Orbison and Wu-Lu. Now she is becoming a star in her own right
Léa Sen’s name is one you might be familiar with as a featured vocalist. The French-Martiniquan artist moved to London aged 20, and it paid off: in 2021, her breathy but direct vocal on Joy Orbison’s Better was constantly on the radio, while her contributions to excellent records from Wu-Lu and Oscar Jerome were also remarkable. But on her own work, the 23-year-old’s output goes beyond that.
Sen, who grew up just outside Paris, is a multi-instrumentalist as well as vocalist – her parents gave her a guitar aged 15, and she taught herself to play via the internet (her vocal style comes from singing along to the pop, R&B and jazz she heard as a kid rather than any formal training). She wrote, produced, engineered and mixed her debut EP, last year’s You of Now, Pt 1. Its slightly off-kilter, dream-pop-leaning songs featured rippling melodies and her lithe, unpolished vocal fanned out over the top, weighing up the pros and cons of where she found herself in life.
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