Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas fascinates me because she refuses to sit in one genre, folding pop, jazz, cabaret, and chanson into that smoky, low, unmistakably grown-up voice. From her commanding 1988 debut onward she sold over 20 million records, and the French and German honors she's collected show how she crossed borders that music rarely does. What I admire most is that she never chased trends; she built a world and kept polishing it. Hers is the kind of voice that suits cigarette smoke and late nights, the sort of artistry that simply doesn't fade no matter how the times change around it.

Name (English)

Patricia Kaas

Name (Japanese)

パトリシア・カース

Reading

ぱとりしあ・かーす

Born

December 7, 1966 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Horse

Origin

Forbach, Moselle, France

Occupation

actor / singer / recording artist / musician

Awards & achievements

• Officer of Arts and Letters
• 2003 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1991 Victoires de la Musique – Female artist of the year
• 1988 Victory for the female variety revelation

• Official sitehttp://www.patriciakaas.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/patriciakaasoff/
• Xhttps://x.com/patriciakaas
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Kaas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159704

Tags

• Moselle
• actor
• singer
• recording artist

Last updated

2026-06-23

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