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Artist
Vendredi sur Mer
12+ albums
swisselectronicfrenchswitzerlandfemale vocalists
about
From Geneva, Switzerland, although her nationality is usually defined as Franco-Swiss. Her name is Charline Mignot, but artistically she is known as Vendredi sur Mer. Coming into the world in the mid 90's, Charline grows up with a very introverted view of the world around her. As she grew up and wanted to explain her surroundings in her own way, she moved more and more towards the arts, fashion and photography, and it is in the latter that she dedicated her studies. In his quest to make his own mark and push his own boundaries within the aesthetics he used for his photographs, he eventually started writing songs. The first time was with the idea of using self-made music for her photo shoots, knowing that music would help set the mood within the shoot. That's how her first song, "Est-ce que tu t'en souviens", was created. Their style is quite distinctive, having been described as dream-pop, electro-pop, electro-ambient and even "space-disco". The marriage of Charline's art and direction caught the attention of Swiss and French producers, including Lewis Ofman, who produced her most listened-to single, "La femme á la peau bleue", in 2016, a song that became famous in the fashion world as the official music for one of Sonia Rykiel's 2017 collections. Mignot's voice is always soft, as if she were singing from a reverie. She uses a spoken voice in all her songs, which come across best as storytelling about women, sensuality, love and heartbreak. In some interviews she has expr
