Claudia Solal is an untamed and adventurous musician. As a singer, songwriter, she has been performing for over 20 years in France and abroad, on the most prestigious venues and festivals. Her singular collaborations, her numerous artistic experiences played a large part in building a unique and captivating vocal language, at the crossroads of written material and improvised songs. Off shore songs, as she likes to call them.

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After her highly acclaimed first recordings My own Foolosophy (with Baptiste Trotignon, 1998), Porridge Days (with Benjamin Moussay, 2005 – Charles Cros Academy’s Coup de cœur), and Room Service (with quartet Spoonbox, 2010 – ffff Télérama), comes Butter in my Brain, with Benjamin Moussay. Quoted as a masterpiece in Le Monde newspaper, the album receives a resounding welcome (2017 - ffff Télérama, 4 stars Jazzmagazine, nomination at the Victoires du Jazz 2018). Punk Moon (release date spring 2025) is an album of lunar pop songs that spotlights modular synth. In 2020, Hopetown (RogueArt - CHOC Jazzmagazine / ffff Télérama) marks the continuity of her collaboration with Benoît Delbecq which has begun in Chicago in 2015 with Katie Young, Tomeka Reid or Lou Mallozzi. A new duet album is in preparation.

The new trio Cérémonie de thé, with Hasse Poulsen and Simon Drappier gives its first concerts in 2024. All written in french, it is an ode to nature, between romanticism and post-modernism!

She also currently performs in a trio with Didier Petit and Philippe Foch (Les Ferrailleurs du ciel / Charles Cros Academy’s Grand Prix 2017, tours in Mexico, China, Korea, Baltic countries, Finland...), with Françoise Toullec (5tet La Banquise), Christophe Rocher (Ensemble Nautilis), in a trio with Jean-Charles Richard and Marc Copland.

Much in demand as a soloist and a sidewoman, Claudia has been heard in Yves Rousseau’s tribute to Léo Ferré in tandem with singer Jeanne Added, with pianist Jean-Marie Machado (5tet and orchestra), with clarinetist Jean-Marc Foltz and violinist Régis Huby, with her father Martial Solal (duo and Newdecaband), with Médéric Collignon, with contemporary singer Valérie Philippin, with Sylvain Kassap, or in Le Vent Nocturne by Diego Imbert (poems by Apollinaire) for strings and woodwinds, to name but a few.

She also has been involved in teaching since 1998 (workshops, master classes), and has run the jazz singing and improvisation class at Strasbourg’s Conservatory CRR from 2005 to 2023, as well as at the HEAR. She now teaches at PSPBB in Paris. She also composes for TV and theater, and lends her voice for radio and movies.