Loizeau was born in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, near
Paris, France. Her father, Pierre Loizeau, was French, and her mother, Eliza Hutchinson, was British. Her maternal grandparents were actress
Peggy Ashcroft and barrister
Jeremy Hutchinson. Around 1980, when she was five years old, Loizeau began to learn piano. After studying classical music for many years, she turned to studying philosophy and then theatre in
London, then worked assisting composer and stage manager
Georges Aperghis. Loizeau cites
Georges Brassens,
Bob Dylan and
The Beatles as her primary influences. Besides
Bach and
Franz Schubert, she also loves
Renaud. She has also been influenced by
Tom Waits,
Nina Simone and
Randy Newman. At the end of 2001, at the age of 26, Loizeau began to perform at a small Parisian cabaret, which became for her a one-person cottage industry, printing flyers, doing publicity. She then began to collaborate with like-minded artists such as
Vincent Segal,
Franck Monnet,
Nils Tavernier, Jean-Louis Foulquier. She signed with at the age of 31 (their first French artist) and released her first album ''L'autre bout du monde.'' She later performed at the Comedia, where she sold out for three weeks straight. == Discography ==