Marina Kaye is a French singer, songwriter and composer. Most famous for the hit "Homeless", she has released the EP Homeless in 2014 and the album Fearless in 2015. On October 20, 2017, she released a second album, Explicit. This becomes a gold disc.
Marina was born in the 9th district of Marseille to a French father and a stay-at-home mother of Algerian origin. Then she grew up in the town of Allauch, and studied at Yves-Montand college, which she left at the age of 15 to go and work on her album in London. On her YouTube channel. She started posting videos of covers on the Internet at the age of ten On 14 December 2011, she won the sixth season of the French talent showLa France a un incroyable talent, the French version of the Got Talent series when she was just 13. She sang Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain from Adele and Firework from Katy Perry. After her victory, she decides to stop singing. Her classmates and some adults in her school keep "looking for lice" 13. It was her meeting with Jan Erik Frogg that made her change her mind. In 2012, she opened for the French musical comedy Adam et Ève: La Seconde Chance. She also released a number of covers online and opened for Thirty Seconds to Mars at Palais des Festivals de Cannes and for Florent Pagny tour Vieillir Ensemble and in 2014 for 5 of Lindsey Stirling's concerts in France.
First album : Fearless (2015)
She gained significant recognition with Homeless taken from her similarly titled EP Homeless. The single topped the SNEP French official singles chart. On 18 May 2015, she released the album Fearless recorded in London and New York which includes the song "Freeze you out" written by Sia. The album went triple platinum in France. In 2017, she will play in Papounet, a French comedy directed by Dominique Farrugia.
Explicit (2017)
On September 14, rapper and singer Soprano announced the tracklist for his album L'Everest which will be released the following month. The title Mon Everest, is a featuring with Marina Kaye. On October 20, 2017, she released Explicit her second album shortly after releasing the official clip for On My Own and Something.
Personal life
She participates in the album Balavoine, released in January 2016 for the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Daniel Balavoine, using the title Only the very best. She performed at the South by Southwest festival in Texas in March 20168. She will also do a duet with rapper Soprano on the title Mon Everest. On January 7, 2017, she sang for the first time in French on television, taking over the title Vole by Céline Dion on TF1, in homage to Grégory Lemarchal. A few months later, on October 20, 2017, she released a second album, Explicit. This becomes a gold disc. She had a well-publicized feud with her father after he said on his own Facebook that his daughter was under immense psychological pressure and isolated from the realities of the world. He also blamed her for changing her name as an attempt to cut herself from her roots. She retorted that she was shocked and hurt by these declarations and said this was a continuation of what she described as a "traumatic childhood" in her youth, adding that her own father just wanted to destroy her career, to which Dalmas responded: « What father would like to destroy his children and their future? »
