KAAS CHANTE PIAF at Cirque Royal

A native of Forbach in Alsace, France, the youngest child of seven, she fully deserves her success. Because of her unique vocal timbre, of course, but also because she has managed to improve that timbre over the years with hard work and tenacity, as if cutting and polishing a rough diamond.
Although she shot to fame in 1987 with "Mademoiselle chante le blues" (Madam sings the blues), her career can be said to have started much earlier.
When she was 7, her family were already amazed by her voice, curiously husky for a little girl's. Her mother, a great music lover of German extraction, soon realised that Patricia had tremendous vocal talent. While her father, a miner, laboured down in the pit, Patricia justified his sacrifice and devotion by combining hard work at school with her passion for singing. A child prodigy, she appeared on stage for the first time when she was eight. At fêtes and street parties, in bars and on radio talent shows, she performed brilliant versions of songs by Claude François, Dalida and Sylvie Vartan. Then at 11, she became one of the regular performers at the Rumpelkammer Club, Sarrebruck. She appeared there for 7 years, dazzling audiences with her deep timbre and mysterious air, reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich.