Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa Paradis is back on stage at KOKO, London, on 1 October 2026. A singer and actor since her teenage breakthrough with Joe le taxi, she has built a singular path between pop and French chanson. Early on she worked with Serge Gainsbourg for Variations sur le même t’aime, while opening a parallel career in film. Her tours have often been captured on live albums, markers of an artist who treats the stage as a place to reshape her songs rather than repeat them.

Over the years she has shifted textures without losing her melodic thread: the sparkling pop of Divinidylle, the collaborative energy around -M- on A Monster in Paris, then the finely written Love Songs produced by Benjamin Biolay. At KOKO, she draws from this catalogue, from first hits to more recent material, with arrangements that move between acoustic lightness, subtle grooves and intimate ballads. A seasoned band supports a voice that favors nuance and phrasing over excess, for a concert that reconnects London with one of France’s most enduring pop figures.