Lila-May

Presented by Gérard Drouot Productions as part of Hors du temps, and right in the thick of it… This is the luminous paradox of Lila-May's first mini-album.

The high-school student, born in the 95 department, who moved with her family to the Angers area, where she attends school when she isn't recording punchy songs, had fired a first salvo a few months ago with her debut single, "Ain't Going Anywhere".

A track that won over TikTok (the singer is a minor, it bears repeating). There was a clever piano part, and that youthful voice, already mature in its phrasing, which inevitably brought to mind a familiar Amy Winehouse, but in her sunny version, before drama had taken over from the dazzle of a pure soul transfigured by the eternal power of jazz.

In a family where music is a common denominator, both in performance and in listening, Lila-May therefore has a particular fondness for jazz and classic American musicals. She certainly listens to Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter or Laufey, the cult singers of her generation, but also to Elvis Presley, Ray Charles or Frank Sinatra.

The EP "Out of Time" demonstrates how far she has come and the ease she has acquired. Five songs, including the cover that is already popular, plus another cover of "Dream A Little Dream Of Me", written in 1931 and popularised in a folk version by The Mamas & The Papas in 1968, a standard reworked here in what makes up the essence of Lila-May: an ideal balance between the eternal breath of jazz and the poise of a millennial who sings as if Billie Holiday herself had poured her milk over her cereal every morning before she jumped on the school bus.