A luminous voice delicately cracked, a hushed singing, an airy sweetness, harmonic discoveries, a melodic richness, constant bridges between classicism and modernity. Yorina has enough arguments to enchant the most diverse audiences. She is an instinctive woman who unleashes all the flavours of seduction with a certain form of abandon. She expresses her elegance, her singular writing and her bright hues with restraint. She asks for protection from the music in order to find herself better armed in the face of the raw forces of life.
Initially a seamstress by profession, she became a singer by happy accident. The switch goes back to 2015, the year she made the stage costumes for The Do. During an evening at Dan Levy's, the duo's male driving force - and producer of Jeanne Added, Thomas Azier and Laura Cahen - the guests were invited to sing a Beatles song. She follows the movement and instantly embraces the audience, including the main host. This is the starting point of an artistic alchemy that will last for a long time. Levy, the partner, the outstanding arranger, the one who will bring his knowledge and his touch to the final birth of the songs.
Knowing that Yorina gives the impulse to her songs through the piano. Knowing that she sings in English, not out of snobbery, but because of a multi-cultural mix (father Sicilian and blackfoot, mother German and Russian). A girl with a Slavic figure and an advantageous physique (model at Ford). A girl with a bipolar musicality, since she can also be found in Di Bosco, a Dj setting project with an exciting flexibility, capable of tending towards the most irresistibly crazy Italo-disco as well as of giving samples in the dynamics of Chicago's underground house. In any case, she is multiple in her musical infatuations, passing with a picnic appetite from Bill Whiters, a revered artist she has listened to since the age of 5, to Post Malone or Gracie Abrams.
Restrained by a change of label and the health crisis, Yorina waited four years to follow up the first chapter. If Dry Your Tears, an EP traversed by the torments of the soul (the disappearance of her brother at the age of 26) and a melancholy adorned with hope, was a blossoming, what is to come has all the makings of a flowering. Her new EP, Bliss & Grief, released in June 2022, plunges us into her dreamy universe with indie folk and synth pop accents, in which Yorina deploys a vibrant fragility and an essential letting go. Deep and bewitching.
