Mademoiselle K
is a four-person French rock band currently signed with EMI, as of July 2007. The band takes its name from its leader, Katerine Gierak, [1] and so the K
is for Katerine.
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Early days
At age four she had decided to take music as her only path when she saw a guitarist in the
Bois de Boulogne in
Paris. Her mother then signed her up for early music classes when she was five years old. She said in an interview that she had wanted to learn the
piano, but since she and her family couldn't afford one and also didn't have the room for a piano, she instead learned the
recorder.
At about the same time she had also started studying music including
scales,
rests and other
music theory. In her school she had met a music teacher of the name Annick Chatreux. According to Mademoiselle K, Annick explained to her that there are no barriers between music based on genres, and that music was simply music. This advice helped Mademoiselle K to be open to all types of music including
jazz,
classical etc.
For her general culture exam in school, she had listened to
CDs of different genres. At that time, she had also started performing live as a
guitarist but not a singer. She had even started writing lyrics but she didn't set them to music straight away.
She had received her first guitar at age of 8 and she's been playing guitar ever since. She had even won a prize in classical guitar.
After she finished her secondary school, she chose musicology and started to compose her lyrics and also started to sing. At this time she was trying to qualify as a teacher. But she failed her exam and so at this time Mademoiselle K was determined to make it into music. At this time she wrote the song
Ca sent l'Eté
which came to be included in her first studio album Ça me Vexe.
After failing her exam, she started meeting musicians, playing for 50
Euro a night and sometimes for free. She had even started taking singing lessons and bought herself her first guitar, a
Fender Telecaster. She had started writing more and more songs and put them in demos.
She was unclear at first about the combination of Rock music and
French language, but seeing
-M- performing during her adolescent years, she was convinced that there was nothing wrong with the combination.
French Kiss Tour 2007
She took part in the French Kiss tour 2007 which was held in India to celebrate
World Music Day. The event started on the 20th of June and continued for a week until the 27th of June. The event was spread across nine Indian cities including
Chandigarh,
Pune,
Kolkata,
New Delhi,
Mumbai,
Hyderabad,
Chennai,
Thiruvananthapuram and
Bangalore. Along with her were French artists
Anais Croze and
Emily Loizeau.
Discography
Albums
:Ça me vexe
Her first studio album called Ça me vexe was released on 28 August, 2006 through the
EMI International label.
Tracklisting
#Reste là
#Ça sent l'été
#Ça me vexe
#Le Cul entre deux chaises
#Crève
#Grimper tout là-haut
#Jalouse
#Fringue par fringue
#À L'Ombre
#À côté
#Plus le cœur à ça
#Final
:Jamais la paix
26 May 2008,
EMI France
Tracklisting
#Le vent la fureur
#ASD
#Jamais la paix
#Maman XY
#Grave
#Pas des carrés
#En smoking
#Click clock
#Tea Time
#Alors je dessine
#Enjoliveur
#Espace
References
- Mademoiselle K-''Ça me vexe'' - Chronique album