Lila-May

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

The high-school student, born in the 95 and moved with her family to the area around Angers, where she goes to school when she isn't recording punchy songs, had fired a first salvo a few months earlier with a debut single, “Ain’t Going Anywhere”.

A track that won over Tik Tok (the singer is a minor, it bears repeating). There was a clever piano line to it, and that youthful voice, already mature in its phrasing, which inevitably evoked a familiar Amy Winehouse, but in her sunnier incarnation, before tragedy had taken precedence over the dazzle of a pure soul transfigured by the timeless power of jazz.

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

The EP "Out of Time" demonstrates how far she has come and the ease she has gained. Five songs, including the already popular cover, plus another cover of "Dream A Little Dream Of Me", created in 1931 and popularised in a folk version by The Mamas & The Papas in 1968, a standard revisited here in what constitutes 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 jumping on the school bus.