Zaz

Zaz, born Isabelle Geffroy in Tours in 1980, won me over the instant I heard that husky, warm voice. She blends jazz, chanson, soul and acoustic textures into something unmistakably her own, and her breakout single Je veux, a defiant rejection of material wealth in favor of love, still lands like a gut punch. Winning a Music Moves Europe Award in 2011 confirmed she had reached beyond France. What I love is her refusal to follow trends; she sings on her own terms. You can hear the grit of someone who came up the hard way, and it makes the music ring true.

Name (English)

Zaz

Name (Japanese)

ザーズ

Reading

ざーず

Born

May 1, 1980 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

Occupation

singer-songwriter / recording artist / singer / composer / chansonnier

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Music Moves Europe Award
• 2011 Victoire de la chanson originale de l'année

• Official sitehttps://zazofficial.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/zaz_off/
• Xhttps://x.com/Zaz_Official
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaz%20(singer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167850

Tags

• Indre-et-Loire
• singer-songwriter
• recording artist
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.