Maud Elka

There's nothing whimsical about Maud Elka's music.
whim.
Born in Le Mans, she grew up in Angers before
moved to Paris to study law at
law studies at Assas. Instead of
become a lawyer, she ended up preferring
to defend music, HER music.

One day, she
a studio session, almost by chance
It just clicked, "a big slap in the face! I said to myself
this is exactly what I want to do with my life".
my life.

She told her parents that from then on it was
music and nothing else! Mum agreed,
Dad, not so much.
She took on many odd jobs to earn
her independence. She could have given up.
People whisper to her, here and there, that music isn't serious, that it doesn't pay the rent, that it's not worth it.
that it doesn't pay the rent, that it's a fad.
it's a fad. But she hangs on. It's what she
she wants. She feels it, she knows it.