Yael Naïm

Revealed to the wider public by “New Soul,” Yael Naïm has since forged a career far broader than that initial hit. A singer and musician based in Paris, she composes with David Donatien a repertoire that draws freely from pop, folk and soul. Their duo crafts songs that are both precise and expansive, where acoustic meets electronic and where every arrangement serves the essentials: clear songwriting and a voice with a distinctive timbre.

Across her albums, Yael Naïm has multiplied collaborations and formats. She has appeared alongside Feist, David Sylvian, Camille and Brad Mehldau, but also in more unexpected contexts, from a tribute to Coil to a creation with the dancers of Yoann Bourgeois. This taste for exploration nourishes a sensitive, fluid musical landscape, balancing earworm choruses with deliberate instrumental detours. Her voice, supple and precise, plays with nuance and breath, capable of stretching out or becoming almost whispered without losing intensity.

On 20 May 2026 at the Théâtre de Béthune in Béthune, Yael Naïm returns with a set that brings together the different phases of her career and a few new detours, driven by the enduring alchemy with David Donatien and a songwriting sensibility that continues to reinvent itself.