Pianiste, chanteuse, auteure-compositrice, arrangeuse et productrice, Macha Gharibian commence à créer son propre univers musical en s immergeant dans la scène jazz de New York à 25 ans. D ascendance arménienne, après trois albums très remarqués sur la scène Jazz Française et internationale, son nouvel album la révèle sous un jour nouveau. Ode à la vie et témoignage du pouvoir féminin, elle emprunte son titre à un poème de Maya Angelou, et s’affirme résolument comme chanteuse avec son quatrième album Phenomenal Women, sorti le 24 janvier chez Rue Bleue/ Meredith Records (PIAS). Déjà récompensé par Télérama (TTTT).
Artiste de scène et de studio, elle compose aussi pour l image et le spectacle vivant.
Classically trained pianist, vocalist, singer/songwriter, composer, arranger and producer Macha Gharibian first discovered her own musical universe through immersing herself in the New York jazz scene. With Armenian ancestry, her music is an intricate blend of all her influences.
Her debut album Mars (2013), was an immediate success, followed by Trans Extended (2016) and Joy Ascension (2020), both critically acclaimed. Awarded by the Victoires du Jazz in 2020, Macha Gharibian has performed on international stages: Montreux, Ottawa, New York, São Paulo, Bogotá, Moscow, Yerevan, Beijing, Shanghai… From prestigious festivals to iconic venues like Salle Pleyel and Olympia, she has traveled the world with her music.
Borrowing its name from a poem by the great Maya Angelou, her fourth album ‘Phenomenal Women’ spotlights her voice as an ode to life and testament to feminine power. Captivated by a video of Angelou reciting her poem in London in 1987, Gharibian found herself urged to pay musical tribute to the poet, and to the strength of all women.
Influenced by the school of ‘natural vocalists’ in Nina Simone, Jeanne Lee and Joni Mitchell, Macha Gharibian’s luminescent energy leads her listener through a delicately varied tonal palette of celebration, prayer, joy, and melancholy.
