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Tamia Valmont
also known as
Tamia
(born July 29, 1947) is a French composer and singer.
Biography
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Tamia Valmont made her stage debut at the Chateauvallon Jazz Festival with
Michel Portal
, in France, in 1972. She took then part of various musical trends: improvised music, contemporary music, theater, and discovered affinity with extra-European music.
She was commissioned in 1980 to perform solo at the
Paris Festival d'Automne
. On this occasion, she started using recording her voice successively on a multi-track tape to create what she called a "solo polyphony", a genre she would keep exploring in her career. In 1979
Tom Johnson
wrote an article about her in the
Village Voice
that lead to her first US tour. In 1990 she was invited to perform in Japan by composer
Toru Takemitsu
at the Tokyo Festival.
She collaborated with artists such as
Pierre Favre
with whom she recorded 3 CDs. In 2009, the writer
Nancy Huston
cited Tamia Valmont as her inspiration for the main character of her novel entitled
Fault Lines
.
She started teaching vocal technique and improvisation in 1973. She is currently teaching to professional singers and actors in Paris.
Discography
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Solo Albums
- 1978 :
Solo
, T Records
- 1981 :
Senza Tempo
, T Records
- 1999 :
Les chants de la Terre
, Universal Music
Collaborations with
Pierre Favre
- 1983 :
Blues for Pedro Arcanjo
, T Records-Gemini
- 1988 :
De la Nuit...le jour
, ECM
- 1992 :
Solitudes
, ECM
References
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- The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Oxford University Press 2007, By Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, page 221
- Fault Lines, Kindle Edition 2008, By Nancy Huston, Author's Note
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