Having established herself in just a few years as one of the most powerful and moving voices on today’s music scene, American singer and pianist Sarah McCoy, now a resident of France, is preparing a new ephemeral tour (September 2025- August 2026). In this unprecedented solo show, an intimate, acoustic piano-vocal performance, she will retrace her meandering life’s journey, continuing her quest towards her inner self and experimenting with new compositions for her next album.

Born in South Carolina into an Irish Catholic family, Sarah McCoy classically trained at the piano during her teenage years. At the cusp of adulthood, she couldn’t take it anymore and set off across the United States, leaving both the piano and the family yoke behind. It was during these years of travel that she discovered her voice. To avoid falling asleep at the wheel, Sarah sung at the top of her lungs thinking «Wait, does that sound good? I think that does sounds good? … Sing! Louder!». It was at that infamous New Orleans piano bar, The Spotted Cat, that she reconciled with the piano and spent five years as an artist-in-residence where she found a new and rare freedom of expression and musical experimentation.

It is there that in 2013 she was seen by the French documentarian Bruno Moynié who booked her first concert in France. After a noticeable performance at the Parisian festival Les Nuits de l’Alligator in 2014, she came back to play several times in France and decided to settle in Paris in 2017, the same year she is noticed by Chilly Gonzales (renowned for his Solo Piano albums and collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Drake and Daft Punk), during an opening concert at the Gaité Lyrique. Recorded at the mythical Studio Ferber with legendary producer Renaud Letang (Feist, Keren Ann, Charlotte Gainsbourg…) and Chilly Gonzales, her first album BLOOD SIREN was acclaimed by the press in France (ffff and “Best World Album 2019” Télérama, 4* and “Twenty best of 2019” Nouvel Obs) and in Germany (Vogue, Stern Magazin).

On her next opus, HIGH PRIESTESS (2023), the singer-songwriter shifted her Soul towards electro-acoustic and modern, even post-apocalyptic sounds, bringing her to the attention of a new contemporary music audience, while retaining the blues roots, brought over from Louisiana, of her first album adopted by the European jazz scene. In recent years, Sarah has toured with two musicians, Jeff Hallam (bass) and Antoine Kerninon (percussion), playing more than a hundred dates, throughout France, as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Benelux, the UK, Canada, the USA, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, including high-profile festival appearances (Montreux Jazz, Le Chorus, Les Nuits Sonores, Les Singulier. es du 104, Jazz à Sète…) and sold-out concerts such as La Cigale in Paris.

Sarah was also asked in 2024 to perform a cover of Led Zeppelin’s classic Kashmir on Philippe Cohen Solal’s 75010 compilation (Gotan Project), and original tracks, composed with Amine Bouhafa (César 2015 for Best Original Score for Timbuktu), for the films La Prisonnière de Bordeaux (by Patricia Mazuy with Isabelle Huppert) and Toutes Pour Une (by Houda Benyamina).