Lila-May

Presented by Gérard Drouot Productions. Out of time, and right in the thick of it… It is the luminous paradox of this first mini album by Lila-May.

The high-school student, born in the Val-d'Oise (95), who moved with her family to the outskirts of Angers, where she goes to school when she is not recording punchy songs, fired a first salvo a few months earlier with the inaugural “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, though already mature in its phrasing, which inevitably evoked a familiar Amy Winehouse, but in her sunny version, before tragedy had taken precedence over the dazzle of a pure soul transfigured by the eternal power of jazz.

In this family, where music is a common denominator, both in practice and in listening, Lila-May therefore has a particular fondness for jazz and classic American musicals. She admittedly 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 gained. 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 assurance 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.