MARGUERITE - to grow | LP

"la fée" (the fairy). That's the nickname her parents gave her, and it also lends its name to the opening track of marguerite's inaugural EP. Not quite a debut record, as it was preceded by the salvific tidal wave of "les filles, les meufs," but a coming-of-age story that sketches the contours of an immediately endearing personality, whose artistic demandingness shines through every note. Revealed on the show Star Academy, marguerite delivers this first EP, grandir (to grow), with disarming sincerity. As a singer-songwriter, she draws from the many blackened pages of her notebooks, spinning a narrative thread that allows for both intimate confession and universal connection. "These are six little pieces of me," marguerite confides about an EP whose title refers as much to the transformations of flowers as to Aldebert's lovely phrase: "to grow is to create first times."