Dear Margot,
What are the essential traits of Margot Sergent, the artist? French born, classically trained, I feel like a traveler both in time and in music. I feel like a world citizen. I am passionate about music and see it as an emotional door opener. Songwriting is the most poetical storytelling tool. Improvising offers a limitless playground full of possibilities expressing one’s inner voice. Cabaret is a tradition I found to be a wonderful meeting space of different influences: French songs, American standards, Brazilian MPB. It belongs to well-known and less known poets/songwriters and of course jazz from the most traditional swing to free style. It so happens that I have a classical harp background and a jazz education for both voice and harp. That has brought me to shows such as “The Piaf Experience” where |
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