Gabrielle Verleyen

With her strong, velvety voice, Gabrielle Verleyen reconciles indie-folk and French text pop in a sound universe without borders, where melancholy and serenity rub shoulders to create an intimate, luminous landscape. This former shy girl, whose singing didn't dare go beyond the reassuring walls of her family home, discovered her voice as a passport at the ripe old age of 20. With a degree in Roman Languages and Literatures in her pocket, she escaped to Rotterdam to attend a world music conservatory. And it's her own universe that she creates, made up of personal experiences and influences (pop-folk, indie rock and Indian music). Some of her experiences are painful, and she recalls them in English, out of respect for their language. But when things happen here in Belgium, she dares to say them in French. In 2018, she headed back to Brussels, with a few compositions in her pocket and a lot of sadness linked to this departure. It was on this nostalgic soil that she wrote most of the songs on her first EP, "Le lac", released at the end of 2021, in which we discover an intimate and sincere cartography. Its first single, "Le renard passe", has been heard from Belgian radio stations to the international film American Night (Alessio Della Valle with Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch etc.). Another award for the young woman who had already won the 3rd final of F dans le texte in 2021. Today, she is preparing her first album, "Le Long de la Lys". This opus retraces the author's intimate and geographical journey to free herself from a toxic relationship and the gendered conditioning in which she grew up. The album, which takes its name from the Belgian river where Gabrielle grew up, is a logical follow-up to her seminal debut EP. With this collection, the singer's resolutely pop-folk universe is affirmed and purified to make way for uncompromising songs where the voice blossoms, emancipates and multiplies. Melancholy backing vocals, softly strung strings and the cottony sound of the trombone quickly reveal a landscape both nostalgic and full of hope.

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