Zaho de Sagazan
Saw Zaho de Sagazan, French chanson’s new hope (first posted about her in 2022), perform yesterday in Amsterdam. Small venue, about 400 people. And immediatly bougth tickets for her upcoming show in March, in the bigger Paradiso venue (1500 people). Zaho will do a proper European tour in 2025, and I urge you to go. This 24-year old, who told us yesterday that she’d never been in love, made all of us in the Amsterdam Tolhuistuin fall in love with her. With her boomin’ deep voice, with her presence, her 3 fellow musicians (all synths and drums), her smile, her jokes, her struggles with the English language.
But mostly we fell in love with her songs, the intensity, the danceability, the mix of sensitivity and escapism: big beats, big emotions. An extended version of her majestic debut album is about to be released, this is a taster:
