Olivia Ruiz

On January 1, 1980, Olivia Ruiz, real name Olivia Blanc, was born in Carcassonne, Aude. Although the apprentice singer didn't make it through the rounds of the TV talent show Star Academy, she nevertheless realized her ambition to break into the music world after years of practice. In 2006, the album La Femme Chocolat proved a real success, earning the character singer a Victoire de la Musique award for her song " J'traîne des pieds". Olivia Ruiz repeated this performance three years later with the album Miss Météores. This major success was followed by the live recording of Miss Météores Live (2010) and an interlude with the EP Olivia Sings for the Red Star, in which she covers a handful of jazz standards. In 2012, the singer conceived independently, from writing to production, Le Calme et la Tempête (No. 15), a fourth collection recorded on a tablet in Cuba and finalized in a Los Angeles studio. This chapter, which concludes her affair with Mathias Malzieu, lead singer of the group Dionysos, is followed four years later by À Nos Corps-Aimants (ranked no. 26) and its single "Mon corps, mon amour". Olivia Ruiz has won the Globe de cristal three times (2007, 2010 and 2013) and four Victoires de la musique awards. She is also an actress, short-film director and novelist, and recorded her sixth album La Réplique (2024), which reached No. 22 on release.