Hen Yanni

A few chords strummed on the guitar, brooding and tormented vocals, her ebony black fringe concealing her piercing eyes here and there. Hen (pronounced “Ren”) Yanni sings of her trials and tribulations, her out-of-the-ordinary artistic career path and her long-sought salvation, found thanks to music. Less than a year after the release of Where Do We Go?, her EP lauded for its “intoxicating new wave ballads” (Harper’s Bazaar France) and “raw, tormented lyrics” (Libération), she’s back with Version Of You, a debut album filled with electro-rock songs which attest to the magnetism of her private and emotional universe. With its powerful sound, brutal lyrics and comforting mantras, this thirteen-track record summons her rock, folk and goth influences (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees). It dives head first and at full speed into the limbo of the 40-year-old artist’s past lives, until she ultimately and blissfully finds music. Written over a period of several years at the end of the previous decade, it retraces the incredible journey of this former actress and muse who travelled the world in order to finally build her very own, in a striking ascent from darkness towards light