After 30 years of stage experience and ten records, Isabelle Olivier listens to this legendary and universal song : Smile by Charlie Chaplin. One of the most beautiful melody in the history of music, accompanied with a text that has an astonishingly contemporary resonance. This idea of smiling even when one’s heart is wounded enables us to apprehend the times we are living in differently. That is what triggered her new 2021/2022 project: ‘SMILE.’

For her eleventh album, she composes and explores this notion of openness to the other to present ten personal compositions and four covers – from Charlie Chaplin to James Blake, Ennio Morricone and Cannonball Adderley. She will start performing at the PianoForte Foundation in Chicago, and is likely to play some songs with guests.