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Artist
Irma
12+ albums
female vocalistssoulacousticpopfrench
about
Irma is the stage name for three artists: (1) the emerging Cameroonian folk/pop/soul artist "Irma" , (2) Swedish actress and pop singer Irma Schultz Keller, and (3) Croatian crossover singer Irma Dragičević competing at Dora 2025. (1) Irma (born 1988 in Douala, Cameroon) is a singer-songwriter from Cameroon. She is now living in France. Irma is from a family with a musical background. Her father is guitarist and her mother was in a church choir. As a child Irma was performing at masses too. At age 15 she went to a high school in Paris to improve her school education. No doubt about it: Irma is part of a generation that can do just about anything. She’s capable of removing the blinkers of received ideas and transcending the boundaries between categories. And she was also daring enough to re-record her first album, initially entrusted to the greatly respected New York producer, Henry Hirsch, long-time musical partner of Lenny Kravitz. “We recorded in a place two hours from New York, in a chapel that had been converted into a studio. I thought it sounded good, but when I listened to it again back in Paris, I was pretty disappointed! Too many musicians around her, too many effects and not the emotion she was after. Driven by the audacity of youth, the 20-year-old Irma took the risk of re-recording in Paris. And it was worth it because the album reveals her personality, with her soft vocals and hazy aura, and shows a gentle modesty that is perfectly consistent with her barely
