Oklou, the world star that France has not seen coming

Udoes not giantly molded in a red heel emerges from an arid Californian soil. Meanwhile, Leaning against her, Billie Eilish, military hood, steel blue look, and nonchalant poses. However, On the cover of Vogue Dated to the month of May, the 23 -year -old pop queen is the goal. Similarly, And in the pages of the magazine. Furthermore, when asked what enthusiasts her, a fuse sentence: “Oklou makes me love it too much. Nevertheless, Honestly, this is the first to be enthusiastic like that for a long time. »»

In France. the name intrigues, we wonder: who is this Marylou Mayniel, alias Oklou, singer-author-composer discreet 32-year-old who came from Poitiers, that Caroline Polarchek, Rosalía and now Billie Eilish tear? Long unknown to the general public, she rose, in January, in the world top 10 oklou, world star france not Spotify with Choke Enoughhis second album. While the solicitations flock. she disappears, turns off her phone, gives birth to her first child – and earth in the calm of her house in Aubervilliers, faithful to a rare method in this environment: advancing in biases, without forcing.

To understand this phenomenon that the French media have not seen coming, we went up the track. From Poitiers to Los Angeles, via London and Paris. Lycée Victor-Hugo, first groups, soundcloud, associative radios, concerts in cellars. Those who saw her start tell a patiently woven trajectory on the fringes of the circuits. Because what the market celebrates today, in the […] Read more