Tangora has a French-Italian back-ground; she grew up near Marseille in a family of music lovers passionate for jazz, Latin music and bel canto …
Singer, songwriter, composer, she is nowadays among “the most moving voices of jazz and sun shining music … There is in the voice of Tangora a suave mixture of contained lyricism, refined sensuality and carnal elegance. Her great rhythmic ease and her beautiful vocal technique here serve a music altogether festive, languorous and melancholic … “
Didier Lockwood.
Two great trips will definitely leave their mark on her sensitivity:
Brazil, the Caribbean, which captivated her by their aestheticism, melodic colors, their great composers.
As soon as she gets back to France, Tangora immerses herself in the melting pot of jazz, Afro-Latin Caribbean music and also attends the Oriental Music Conservatory of Paris.
The people she meets lead her to numerous collaborations on stage and on discography, as with : Brice Wassy, Manu Dibango, Maurane, Touré Kunda, Oliver N’Goma, Ivan Jullien, Emmanuel Bex, …
Tangora released four albums, in 1997 Etadam, in 2001 Ode to Ella and Colorada in 2005, with the complicity of her companion Claude Sommier, pianist and composer native of Martinique.
She affirms in these albums her taste for interbreeding poetic and musical writing and for expressing herself in Latin, Creole and English languages.
In 2009, release of Confluences : Modern resonances both in the arrangements and in the wish to interbreed tones, rumbas, sounds, biguine and jazz. She sings her range of compositions with a generous and sumptuous voice at the confluences of jazz.
An interbred jazz with Afro-American-Latin accents, a rich music full of sun and captivating rhythms that delights and exalts the public.
Warm, smiling and radiant, Tangora has made of music her banner, her way of life.
Her texts are odes to love, hymns to interbreeding, celebrations of life, delicate and sensual ballads … Poignant messages in a mosaic of colors that carry the soul of intermingling. She juggles with notes as well as with words … emotion, mellowness, intensity, she shares with her accomplices and brilliants musicians: Mario Canonge, Eric Vinceno and Tony Rabesson who form the main part of her group.
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