Valerie Chane Tef

TÈR LABA…elsewhere. The one we come from, the one that shapes us, to which we always return, and Valérie’s, Reunion Island, the island where she was born. Through this new project, she reconnects with her roots and, above all, her mother tongue through song, reinterpreting old “Séga” songs that rocked her childhood, but also by introducing us to her compositions, co-written with the talented Flo Vincenot, a Guadeloupean pianist. She also sought elsewhere in Clément Belmonte, a Guadeloupean trumpeter, and Yannick Lavary, who, like her, represents Reunion Island. Artists rooted in their culture and eager to serve delicate, touching, danceable, and falsely naive music. It is therefore the freedom to be oneself that is defended in Tèr laba, the right to be multiple, the right to be from here, and elsewhere...
Singer, pianist, bassist, composer, Valérie Chane is a multi-instrumentalist, quickly recognized as a dazzling Creole jazz pianist and a key figure in contemporary Creole jazz music. She released two albums on the Aztec Musiques label (the Malavoi group's label): Muzik pou lo Kèr and Nout Souk, both playlisted on RFi, FIP, France Inter, France Musique, and France Outre-mer. She has appeared alongside Mino Cinelu (Miles Davis' percussionist), Thierry Fanfant, Dédé Saint-Prix, Omar Lye Fook, Géraldine Laurent, and Joby Valente.