Peace of Mine

Laura Prince is a young woman full of mystery, at once sensitive, authentic and serene, yet determined.

Born to a Togolese father and a French mother, Laura was immersed from childhood in a world of a thousand colours and a thousand sounds, a mixture of classical music and African music, thanks to her music-loving parents.

It was the time when her father sang her Togolese nursery rhymes, which lulled her and sent her flying to this colourful country, full of sounds that evoked sunshine and joy. It was also the time when her fingers began to run across the keyboard of the little piano her mother had given her, the instrument of the intimate harmony she was to compose between the two worlds she carried within her.

Later, confronted with the painful fracturing of her family universe, she set off in search of sensations likely to soothe her. ‘I realised,’ she says, "that my ear was sensitive to the harmonies of everyday sounds - the whistling of the wind, the clinking of two glasses, the percussion of rain on sheet metal, the rumble of thunder, birdsong, the sound of a siren.

These are the sounds that brought me to music. They shaped the singer I have become.

Therefore, she decides that music will have no borders for her. She has only one wish to sail towards new dream and musical destinations

As a teenager, she started singing lessons and learned American harmony and musical notation. She composes her first songs and sings accompanied by the piano. Later, she attended the University of Nanterre and studied until obtaining a degree in ethnomusicology. Then begins a life, made of ups and downs, expedients and small jobs, but never music leaves it.

When Laura loses her beloved aunt, carried away by a brain tumour, it is an immense pain, but also an electroshock. From this day on, the alarm clock that announces the time to go to work may well ring! She will not get up! Will not go to her office as an assistant! Now it’s time for music, to which she wants to devote her time and energy! His life will be music or not!

Then comes the time of creation, with its joys and anxieties, its certainties and challenges. Laura feels ready to say, express and bring together all these fragments of herself, her intimate emotions, her sadness, her childhood fears, her sorrows and her heart joys. His!

She then solicits Grégory Privat, a renowned pianist and arranger who becomes her musical accomplice.
"Everything was fluid between us, she says. as soon as we started making music together"

At the Meudon studio, accompanied by outstanding musicians, Tilo Bertholo, Zacharie Abraham and Inor Sotolongo, they then develop Peace of Mine, Laura’s first album. His dream came true.

Listen to Laura talk about it: This album is the inner peace that carries me. conquered through my childhood fears, the mixture of my roots, my joys and my sorrows, and resulting from the confrontation to life, death and love. It is also my story. The one that inhabits me and I wish to share with them and those who will listen to me. This album is an invitation to travel to the address of all nomads, vagrants and exiles. I want it as a birth. Like the story of a young girl who becomes a woman”.