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Pyrénées-Orientales: how a song recorded on the Côte Vermeille ends up in New York

The talent of the young artist Charlotte Couleau has crossed the Atlantic and calls out to the American press. “Voyage” on the Côte Vermeille with this young performer.

Singer, songwriter and performer, Charlotte Couleau released her song Voyage July 1st. At the end of August, she was noticed by the New York magazine Interview music magazine, both for its interpretation and for the landscapes of the Côte Vermeille that accompany it.

The article is titled Singer, pianist, composer and performer extraordinaire. During the interview, the journalist describes Charlotte Couleau’s work as “remarkable repertoire of musical elegance”. He was also captivated by the scenery in the music video.

Voyage is a delicate piano-voice ballad on which the singer evolves against the backdrop of landscapes of the Côte Vermeille, before playing on the piano of the Belvédère cinema room of the green ray in Cerbère.

Charlotte Couleau indicates that the New York magazine discovered the clip via Twitter, the interview was then made in writing.

The singer lives in Toulouse. During the second confinement, images of the Côte Vermeille, of the sea, came back to him in force: “The pandemic is a real source of anxiety for artists”, she confides. The idea then came to him to write a song on these images. The clip was then shot in mid-June by Elian Robert, a director from Perpignan.

She has known the Côte Vermeille for three years now: “It was a total craze, I fell in love with the Pyrénées-Orientales. I fell in love with Cerbère and the Belvédère, so rich in history, which has an old Vogel grand piano. ‘seemed perfect to illustrate my song “. She hopes to return to the Belvédère: a piano-voice and lyric song concert has been scheduled for next summer.

Charlotte Couleau has a musical studies diploma from the Toulouse Regional Conservatory, a license in musicology, a bachelor’s degree in singing from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and a master’s degree from the Higher Institute of Siena. Currently, she accompanies on piano and voice a French slammer winner of the 2019 slam world cup. She is planning a lyrical recital tribute to Callas and in parallel continues her piano-voice compositions.

His new song I have a sun was released on Wednesday September 15 on Youtube. She talks about love and nature. Inspired by the Pyrénées-Orientales.

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