Early life Eilera was born Aurélie Potin Suau in
Montpellier, France on 13 August 1986. She began taking
classical guitar lessons at the age of twelve. At the age of seventeen, Eilera began playing
electric guitar and experimented with
metal music. The band's name was later changed to Chrysalis and they released
Between Strength and Frailty, a demo distributed by French record label Adipocere Records.
2003 - 2011 Chrysalis disbanded in 2003, and Eilera and Tézénas focused on the side project, now known as Eilera. In 2003, they
self-released their first album,
Facettes. In 2004, the band Eilera signed a
recording contract with
Finnish label
Spinefarm Records. They worked with record producer
Hiili Hiilesmaa, cellist
Max Lilja, and drummer
Antti Lehtinen to record their first album for Spinefarm, an EP titled
Precious Moment (2005)
. In 2007, Eilera released her first solo studio album,
Fusion, which she had recorded with Hiilesmaa, Lilja, and Lehtinen.
2011 - 2019 Eilera began working independently after the purchase of Spinefarm by
Universal Music Group. In 2011, Eilera self-released the album
Darker Chapter… and stars. This featured Jan Sormo on Bass, Loïc Tézénas on Guitar, and Eilera's Vocals. After touring France, Eilera ended her collaboration with Tézénas and moved to
Finland, where she currently resides. In Finland, Eilera worked on new collaborations, including one with
Pariisin Kevät on a first album,
Meteoriitti, which featured French and Finnish songwriting and original compositions by Eilera. She also began collaborating with Celtic harp player
Lily Neill. They practised together at
Sibelius Academy and re-recorded many of Eilera's earlier songs, as well as the
Tori Amos song
Winter. Eilera began recording her next studio album,
Face Your Demons (2016), at
Finnvox with old friend
Tero Kinnunen of
Nightwish, but ultimately opted for a more intimate sound and recorded the remainder of the album live in studio. Five official videos were released in support of the album, three of them shot live in studio for the songs
Angel Made Temptress,
Deadly Together and
Your Way. The videos were shot by Eilera's friend Mitja Harvilahti, who collaborated with
Chilean visual artist David Letelier for two of the videos for "Face Your Demons" and "Male Female Balance." In January 2019, Eilera released an acoustic-based album,
Waves, with a photograph taken from the
Finnvox Studios in
Helsinki. She stated on Facebook that
Waves was a Franco/Finnish/Chilean collaboration. ==Discography==