Caroline Loeb

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine and having spent part of her childhood in New York, Caroline Loeb has built a career at the crossroads of song, theatre, cinema and directing. In the 1980s she was part of a French pop current tinged with new wave, arty flair and casual elegance, first with the album Piranana in 1983 and then Loeb C.D. in 1986, which includes "C’est la ouate," the song that became her most identifiable hit. Her writing and performance rely on a spoken-sung phrasing, a taste for ironic lyrics and a pop-variety aesthetic strongly marked by the decade. From the 1990s, Loeb devoted herself more to directing and musical shows, working notably with Michel Hermon, Judith Magre, Alain Chamfort and Weepers Circus, while continuing to work as an actress and writer. She returned to recording with Crime parfait in 2007 and ... aussi ! in 2009, before extending her stage work into more autobiographical and literary forms, focusing on George Sand and later Françoise Sagan. In 2019 the album Comme Sagan confirmed this move toward a softer, more narrative and theatrical French chanson, continuing a trajectory in which Caroline Loeb makes pop, text and stage converse.