Tanya St-Val

Creole culture is mixed, the music of Tanya St Val as well. Emblematic figure of Zouk and Soul Zouk, Tanya St Val, singer artist born in Guadeloupe, is a formidable interpreter of the greatest standards of the Biguine, her version of “La Guadeloupéenne” of Al Lirvat with the group Malavoi will mark the minds. She signs 3 albums with Mercury including "Soul Zouk" and leaves for London to meet the arranger Joe Dvorniak. The first single "Tropical" will remain ranked in the Top 50 for 14 weeks. The singles "Soul Zouk" and "C’était la nuit " will follow, co-written with Simone Shwartz Bart. In 1993 she made her first American tour. The biggest names in French song are interested in it. Johnny Hallyday embarked her on his European tour in 1994, Michel Sardou offered her to ensure her first part at the Olympia in 1995. She was also asked to join the "Autour du Blues" team alongside Francis Cabrel, Denys Lable, Michael Jones, and many more. Project on which participated Jean-Jacques Goldman and Beverly Jo Scott the blueswoman from Alabama. In 1994 at the release of her album MI, Tanya never ceases to surprise with new sounds in her music, which earned her her rich and numerous collaborations. With more than fifteen albums, major signatures including Sony Music, the creation of her own label Netty Prod in 2000, an incalculable number of hits, followed by numerous prizes and awards Tanya confirms her talent alongside West Indian stars. , Caribbean, national, international and global. Without forgetting his remarkable participation alongside the Neg 'Mawon, Bisso Na Bisso. Tanya tries her at the cinema, in a telenovelas, created by Jean-Luc Azoulay in 2007. She takes her first steps as an actress in "Titane" telefilm directed by Daniel Mossmann in 1995 alongside Valérie Mairesse. We also find her as an actress in the role of Winnie Mandela, musical "Sowéto" written by Serge Bilé in 2008. She continues with a new television experience by hosting the program "Mode in the Caribbean" broadcast on all premieres of the France Television network. In 2007, Tanya created her brand of fashion accessories "Kréyol Line" and in the same vein opened her stores "TSV BOOTIK". Tanya loves being on stage, she left her voice imprint on the most famous of them. She has to her credit... 3 Olympia, 1 Zénith, the SOB'S, the Casino de Paris, the Trianon de Paris, the Café de la Danse. She also opened for Lionel Ritchie in Guadeloupe in 2009 without forgetting of course his many tours on the African continent, the Caribbean, the West Indies, Guyana and Reunion. During a concert on the island of Goré in Senegal Tanya shares the stage alongside Youssou N'Dour, Angélique Kidjo and Jacob Desvarieux. Enriched by her many collaborations, Tanya's music is a real Caribbean musical patchwork for a World Music scene. Several times invited to the emblematic Route du Rhum including that of the 40 years with 2 meetings one in Pointe à Pitre and one in Basse-Terre. The Pointe à Pitre Îlot Jazz Festival in 2012 accompanied by the famous pianist Alain Jean Marie under the artistic direction of Jean Christophe Maillard. In 2013, Jazz in the South Festival in Saint Lucia, in 2014 the Gwadloup Festival and the Gamboa Festival in Cape Verde where the much regretted Césaria Évora performed. In 2017, the Festival Haïti en Folie in Montreal and a Congrès de la Francophonie in Quebec. As well as the Festival de Fort de France, the Festival de la Dominique and the inevitable annual meeting "Limié Ba Yo", around the commemoration of slavery, Place de République in Paris. In 2018, Biguine Jazz Festival in Martinique accompanied by musicians of the new generation and under the musical direction of Jonathan Jurion. A talented pianist with whom she collaborates on the Moon part of her latest album "Voyage", a World Music part with Jazzy influences. We find a liberated Tanya in love with her music. In 2014, Tanya was awarded the Medal of Knight of the National Order of Merit to honor all of her work and her career. Tanya, a true International Ambassador of Caribbean music, invites us into a multicultural universe with her greatest hits revisited that cross time without aging and spreads her music in the many countries where she enjoys performing. It's hard to resist when TSV invites us into its creative universe, between tradition and modernity with jazzy influences. Today, Tanya introduces us to her recent collaboration "Tu ne m'aime plus" a Jazz Island project to a Bossa Nova tune.