Pauline Paris honors the great poet Renée Vivien by setting thirteen of her most beautiful lesbian poems to music. To discover in a book-disc, Treize Poèmes de Renée Vivien, at Quart de Lune, illustrated in black and white by Elisa Frantz, with the first extract, the video clip of Chanson pour mon Ombre in musical selection of JustFocus. To hang notes on the beautiful words of Renée Vivien, Pauline Paris has used awake arrangements, which sometimes border on rock or bossa. This young lady doesn't care about the boundaries between genres, she even decided to explore them all, without setting any limits. Entering the Conservatory at the age of 8 to practice music theory and cello, her early taste for song led her as a teenager to Parisian bistros where she sang Verlaine and her first compositions. Pauline the Parisian builds her culture, taking advantage of her encounters that make her discover Art Tatum, punk or Vladimir Vysotsky. A very heterogeneous culture but marked by some lighthouses like Billie Holiday, Boris Vian, Catherine Ringer or Nina Simone. A perfect background that leads him to apprehend the literary work of Renée Vivien with perfect mastery. To convince you, here is the clip from the book-disc, for the title Chanson pour mon ombre. 
During her brief life, Renée Vivien published her first collection under the pen name "R. Vivien", a name that became, over the course of his publications, "René Vivien" and finally Renée Vivien. Prolific, she has been nicknamed the "Muse of violets", for her love of this flower. His first collection of poems, Études et préludes, appeared in 1901. His subsequent verses, including sonnets and hendecasyllables, sing lesbian loves and recall those of Baudelaire and Verlaine. Her poetry, of a thinly veiled autobiographical nature, aroused, like the works of Natalie Barney, a growing interest among a growing public. All that remained was to sing it and set it to music, it is done, and well done, thanks to the talent of Pauline Paris very comfortable in this delicate and powerful work. The clip of Chanson pour Mon Ombre by Pauline Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UnXb_9raDo digital link
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