Clarisse Albrecht

Clarisse Albrecht is a French and Cameroonian recording artist, singersongwriter, actress and former model. Clarisse is an independent artist, coproducing her music. Shes a multilingual singersongwriter, performing and writing in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. She currently lives between France and Dominican Republic.

Clarisse Albrecht was born in Rueil Malmaison, France to a French father and Cameroonian mother. She split her childhood between France, GuineaBissau and Mozambique. Growing up, Albrecht was listening to a lot of different musical genre160 soul, RampB, funk, pop, Brazilian music and African music such as Makossa, Marabentta or Congolese Rumba. In the early nineties, her family went back to France. While in highschool, she started to sing in a gospel choir as a soloist and chorist. While studying Cinema at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Paris, she joined, as a background vocalist, a band performing SoulFunk covers. She soon left the band to focus on creating her own musical identity. In 2004, she went to Brazil where a friend wrote to her a poem where he describes her as a Mulata Universal. Albrecht came back to Paris with that nickname in mind, inspiring her to write her own songs in Portuguese, the language of her childhood in Mozambique. She started to work on her own songs with her longt

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