About Me
Elise is a Belgian singer. Next to performing jazz standards, French chanson, wedding music and many other styles she creates and performs her own music. Her music is an intriguing mix between Jazz, Soft R&B with a touch of pop. Although she likes everyone to experience her songs with their own interpretations, all her songs are straight from the heart with meaningful but emotional lyrics. With the melodies and harmonies, you can definitely notice her background in Jazz. In April 2019 she had the honor to work with music producer George Holliday, founder of “Made on the Road”. Together they created the song “Soleil Dans Ma Tête”, released the first of March 2021. The song is the perfect mixture of jazzy chords, sweet melodies and some honest but for a lot of people relatable lyrics. Overall positive summer vibes!
Elise’s affinity for music goes back a long way. At the age of six, she started taking ballet and music lessons where she learned to play the clarinet and took vocal lessons. Her dedication to music was already quite impressive at the age of fifteen. Prioritizing music by going to a music art school. In 2014 she got accepted at the Conservatory of Maastricht for jazz vocals, where she successfully graduated the Bachelor program in July 2018.
While studying at the Conservatory of Maastricht, Elise had the opportunity to study privately with Sabine Kulich (2009 winner of Montreux Jazz Voice Competition) and performed in Master Classes with Sheila Jordan and Cyrille Aimée.
From 2018 until 2019 Elise proceeded studying music with the main subject “music producer” at Syntra Genk. As a singer-songwriter she found herself limited without any knowledge of recording and producing. Now she continues on writing and producing her own songs, in future she’ll be working with various artist of Belgium.
As a singer she opened a jazz jam at Café de Zwaan in Maastricht for two years. She performed at the Cross Currents Festival with the band La Mezcla Loca (2017) with headliner Jacob Collier. Elise was the backing vocal of various artist, with Leona Philippo Magisch Cultuur Festival Maastricht 2017 and Belle Pereze in Harmony 2017.
Elise is a passionate educator, next to performing and writing music she has been a vocal coach for many years. She compares singing to training for a marathon. You can’t learn how run a marathon in one day. Learning to master your own voice is such a great skill to have.
She’s curious what the future has in store for her!