Brisa Roché
Brisa Roché is an American singer-songwriter who sings primarily in English, occasionally in French, and who has spent much of her life residing in France.
Early life and career
Roché was raised by an artist mother and initially her adventurer father, then her stepfather.Growing up with her family and surroundings in a small, electricity-free cabin, shared with her mother and stepfather in Arcata, northern California, music played a major influence in Roché’s life. It was a childhood neighbour who introduced her to the drums, which she later swapped for the guitar.
At 16, Roché moved to Seattle to be with her ailing father, at a time grunge music was coming to the fore in the city. She found escape from her personal challenges by immersing herself in Seattle's music scene, playing in a local band, the Amazing Dimestore, having traded her acoustic guitar for an electric one.
Following her father's death, she moved to Paris, and began busking at age 18 in the Paris Metro. The founders of Glazart club in Paris then noticed Roché, which consequently led to opportunities to start singing in the jazz clubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where a few years later she was discovered and signed to Blue Note.
Roché has performed folk, garage, psyche-pop, soul and electronica. Her first album, The Chase, was released 5 October 2005 in Paris; reviewing the album in Billboard, Aymeric Pichevin wrote, "A PJ Harvey fan, Roché delivers jazzy tunes with a punk spirit." In 2016, Roché released Invisible 1. She returned to the United States in the course of writing her fourth album, which Rolling Stone described as "succeed in capturing the essence of pop in order to restore it to a song that was both pure and sensual."
Discography
Albums
- 2003: Soothe Me
- 2005: The Chase
- 2007: Takes
- 2010: All Right Now
- 2016: invisible1
- 2018: Father
- 2019: Low Fidelity
- 2021: Freeze Where U R
- 2022: BRMD
- 2023: ''Hero Palo''