Lea Maria Fries, born in 1989 in Switzerland, began with piano before shifting
to jazz vocals at 14. From 2009 to 2014, she studied at the Lucerne School of
Music under Susanne Abbuehl and others. In 2010, she reached the semi-finals of
the Montreux Jazz Festival's vocal competition as its youngest and only Swiss
participant. After graduating, she moved to Berlin in 2014, exploring new
musical textures for four years, then settled between Paris and Switzerland.
Fries has performed with Dutronc & Dutronc, Eric Legnini, and others.