Adé – Live in Paris – Private Concert for RTL, Paris – January 30, 2023 – RTL Radio –
Staying in Europe – leaving Madrid and heading East – this time to Paris for a Private concert from RTL-FM, recorded on January 30,2023 and featuring Adé during her domestic tour to promote her debut album, So What?
Adé is the stage name for Adélaïde Chabannes de Balsac, who was formerly a member of Therapie Taxi, but left in 2022 to go solo.
In 2013, Adé formed Therapie Taxi along with Raphaël Faget-Zaoui, whom she had met performing a cover of “Jimmy” by Moriarty, when she was seventeen. In 2017, having expanded the band to four members with the addition of Félix Gros and Renaud Bizart, the band released its first single, Salope. From then until the band’s breakup in 2021, Balsac worked on two albums, Hit Sale and Exquisite Corpse, releasing a final EP Breakup 2 Shit in 2020. During this time, Balsac also participated in two tours – on in 2019, ending at Zénith Paris, and a second which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Adé cited a lack of creative freedom for her dissolving the band, wanting a “clean slate”.
After leaving Therapie Taxi, Adé created several songs in collaboration with other artists, in with Benjamin Biolay, for Parc fermé (2021), with Nolwenn Leroy for the album La Cavale (2021) as well as with Louane for the song Pleure (2020).
In April 2022, she released her first single: Tout savoir, followed by her 13-song début album So What? (French: Et alors?) on September 23, 2022, under the label Tôt ou Tard. The album was written during the COVID-19 pandemic, and contrary to the previous music she had produced in Therapie Taxi, is country folk and inspired by American country music – Adé travelled to Nashville, Tennessee to record parts of the album, wanting to experience an “american fantasy”, taking a road trip in the country after the album’s completion. In January 2023, Adé began a domestic tour for the album, performing in cities including Paris, Bordeaux, and Nantes, ending at the Printemps de Bourges. The album received positive feedback, with Balsac being named the “new cowgirl of French pop” by Le Soir.
Tout savoir achieved success, reaching number 5 on the French Singles Chart on October 2, 2022. The song had an accompanying music video, released on YouTube, which was directed by Stéphane Barbato and produced in collaboration with Warner Chappell Music France. As of May 2023, the video had received over seven million views.
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