Zine (songwriter)


Zine is a songwriter from Nice.

Life

Zine spent her first years in Tangier, where her parents lived. Her father is from Corsica and her mother has roots in the Occitan valleys She arrived in France aged 5, in the Drôme. Her musical background first comes from her parents and from her teacher at the Tangier Montessori school, who was ending the schooldays by grabbing his guitar and singing some songs. She started composing songs at 19, and then spent 2 years on the road to improve her musical bases by visiting Southern France, Poland, Switzerland and the Réunion Island, as it is visible in her first recordings.
Zine participated in festivals and international competitions such as the 2009 Liet International and « Nissa la bella ».
At the end of 2016, she wrote a song in Occitan to express the local artists solidarity with Valley of Roya people help to refugees.
In March 2017, she adapts a song of Jacques Dutronc's in Occitan to support the football team of OGC Nice.
In 2018, she publishes a book with the occitan text of the covers she uses to sing.

Discography