Background
Clarisse Albrecht was born in Rueil Malmaison, France to a French father and Cameroonian mother.
Clarisse Albrecht was born in Rueil Malmaison, France to a French father and Cameroonian mother.
Clarisse is an independent artist, co-producing her music She"s a multi-lingual singer-songwriter, performing and writing in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. She currently lives between France and Dominican Republic.
She split her childhood between France, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.
Growing up, Albrecht was listening to a lot of different musical genre: soul, Rhythm & Blues, funk, popular, Brazilian music (MPB, bossa nova) and African music such as Makossa, Marabentta or Congolese Rumba. In the early nineties, her family went back to France.
While in high-school, she started to sing in a gospel choir as a soloist and chorist. While studying Cinema at Louisiana Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Paris, she joined, as a background vocalist, a band performing Soul-Funk covers.
She soon left the band to focus on creating her own musical identity.
In 2004, she went to Brazil where a friend wrote to her a poem where he describes her as a "Mulata Universal". Albrecht came back to Paris with that nickname in mind, inspiring her to write her own songs in Portuguese, the language of her childhood in Mozambique. She started to work on her own songs with her longtime friend Liberal Studies as co-composer and producer.
In May 2010, she released independently (digital download only) her debut single "Você Maine Dá", a deep-house tune with Brazilian music and soul influences.
The song has been aired on more than 33 countries and over 125 radios. lieutenant has been two times nominated at the MOAMAS 2011 (Museke Online African Music ) as Best African Diaspora Song and Afro-Fusion.
In February 2013, she released her second single "Não Posso Parar", a tune with a stronger Soul Music influence. On june, 22nd, 2015, she released her debut album entitled "Mulata Universal".
, directed by Ivan Herrera, directed by Ivan Herrera.