French folk-pop chanteuse Pauline Croze entered the world in the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Sec on May 4, 1979. During adolescence she took up the guitar, and by age twenty she had become a fixture on the neighborhood coffeehouse scene, where she built a catalog of original songs written with Señor Holmes alum Quito. Early in 2003 she formed a songwriting alliance with Edith Fambeuena and Anne Claverie, veterans of the Etienne Daho-sponsored outfit Les Valentins. Before the year closed she secured appearances at festivals such as Les Transmusicales and placed the track “Larmes” on a compilation disc bundled with the influential French music journal Les Inrockuptibles. Having spent the opening months of 2004 on the road alongside Miossec and Lhasa, she joined the Wagram roster on her twenty-fifth birthday and issued her Frambeuena-produced self-titled debut album in the first part of 2005. That record achieved both critical and commercial recognition, bringing Victoires de la Musique Award nominations for Breakthrough Act and Album of the Year. In 2007 she delivered her follow-up, Un Bruit Qui Court, on which Croze blended electro-pop textures with her established acoustic folk leanings. Her third full-length, Le Prix de L’Eden, appeared in 2012.
