Brisa Roché (born in

Arcata, California Arcata (; Wiyot: ''Goudi’ni''; Yurok: ''Oket'oh'') is a city adjacent to the Arcata Bay (northern) portion of Humboldt Bay in Humboldt County, California, United States. At the 2020 census, Arcata's population was 18,857. Arcata was first ...

) is an American singer-songwriter who has spent much of her life residing in France. She moved to Paris after the death of her father, an adventurer, and began busking at age 18 in the

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; the founders of Glazart noticed her and, a few years later, she signed with

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. She has performed folk, garage, psyche-pop, soul and electronica. Her first album, ''The Chase,'' was released in

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; reviewing the album in ''Billboard'', Aymeric Pichevin wrote, "A PJ Harvey fan, Roché delivers jazzy tunes with a punk spirit." In 2016, Roché released ''Invisible 1''. She returned to the United States in the course of writing her fourth album, which ''

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'' described as "succeed ngin capturing the essence of pop in order to restore it to a song that was both pure and sensual."

Discography

Albums

* 2003 : ''Soothe Me'' * 2005 : ''The Chase'' (Blue Note / Capitol) * 2007 : ''Takes'' (Discograph) * 2010 : ''All Right Now'' (Discograph) * 2016 : ''invisible1'' * 2018 : ''Father'' * 2020 : ''Low Fidelity'' * 2021 : ''Freeze Where U R'' (with Fred Fortuny)

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* * 1976 births 21st-century American singers 21st-century American women singers American expatriates in France American women jazz singers American jazz singers American women pop singers Jazz musicians from California Living people People from Arcata, California {{US-pop-singer-stub