Tanya Saint Val and her beautiful music Videos

Updated December 31, 2012 7:55 AM

Born in 1966, Tanya Saint-Val grew up in the music world. When Tanya Saint-Val was still only a little girl, she was already imitating her grandmother singing operetta. Aged nine, she sang on an album of traditional music with her father, a guitarist, singer and professional composer.

After a spell with the Vikings de Guadeloupe, she joined the Daniel Forestal orchestra, where she met Dominique Zorobabel, a future singer with Zouk Machine. At the same time, she continued singing Ella Fitzgerald songs at local dances in Guadeloupe. She then met Pierre-Edouard Decimus, manager of the group Kassav, who introduced her to the French Caribbean recording studios, where she soon got regular work as a backing singer.

In 86, After several months touring with Experience 7 and Zouk Machine, she brought out her debut album, "Tanya Saint-Val", a deliberately zouk production which she followed up two years later with a second album with the same title.

Following a third solo album in 89, "Zouk a Gogo", which contained the hit single "Lanmou kreyol", in 91 she brought out "Soul Zouk", a subtle blend of zouk and soul with contributions by Jacob Desvarieux, Patrick Saint-Eloi, the ever-faithful Willy Salzedo, and Jean-Michel Rotin, to name but a few. The album put Tanya Saint-Val on the map outside the confines of the French Caribbean world, and was in the Top 50 (the French charts) for 14 weeks.

Tanya Saint Val and her beautiful music Videos

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