Marie Kiss la Joue

A singer from Lannion, Anne-Marie Quemper made a name for herself in the early 2000s under the pseudonym Marie Kiss la Joue. After studying fine arts in Rennes, she moved to Paris to study fashion design, while beginning to perform on stage with the Merci Simca group. Accompanied by José Tamarin, a musician who worked with the duo Niagara, she unveiled her retro-influenced songs under the name Marie Marie, then formed the all-female sextet Les Scies Sauteuses, whose repertoire oscillates between feminist songs, java and alternative rock, with a dose of humor. The revelation came in December 2000, when Marie Kiss la Joue took to the stage at the Transmusicales festival in Rennes, winning over fans and professionals alike with her gypsy jazz-influenced songs. This led to her first album, Henri, Valentin et les Autres (2002), released by EMI, which received extensive media coverage, including the tracks "Valentin " and "Y'a du monde au balcon". Three years later, Marie Kiss la Joue continued in this vein between chanson and gypsy jazz with the album Et Si, released on the Avel Ouest label, distributed by Coop Breizh. She left France for Argentina, and recorded her third album in Buenos Aires, the self-produced Embrasse-Moi (2009), which is steeped in tango culture, with arrangements by Nacho Cabello. Back in France, the singer created the show Buenos Aires with the Parisian trio Contempo. The song " Je vais sortir ce soir" (I'm going out tonight) was released in 2021.

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