While living in France, she signed a contract with a modeling agency at the age of seventeen and went to New York. After staying in America for seven years, she made a sudden comeback and decided to become a singer, under the influence of Tracy Chapman's song "Talkin' Bout a Revolution".
While taking singing lessons, she also starts writing song lyrics leaves her modeling career in America, and returns to France. While she was working on music, she coincidentally met Malik Ndiaye, the producer of Ayo and Grace, and that day her music career officially started.
Imany, who is of Comoros origin, was born in 1979 in the Martigues region of France. Imany was a successful athlete and had a shapely body thanks to the sports she did. At the age of seventeen, Imany went to New York signed a contract with a modeling agency, and worked as a model for a while.
He is a fan of Tracy Chapman, Nina Simone, and Lauryn Hill. Despite the producers' efforts to direct her towards Rhythm and Blues, she insisted on Soul, Folk, and Blues. Her first album, "The Shape of a Broken Heart", released in 2011, won the "Disques d'Or" (Gold Record Award), which is given to best-selling albums in a short time. But she made her name known the most with her song "You Will Never Know".
Nadia Mladjao (born 5 April 1979), better known by her stage name Imany, is a French pop-soul recording artist of Comorian descent. Her debut album, The Shape of a Broken Heart, which was released in 2011, reached platinum status in France, and Greece and triple platinum in Poland.
Then her songs 'The Good The Bad & The Crazy' and 'Don't Be So Shy' became very popular and took her to a shining point all over the world.
Undoubtedly, Imany should not be perceived as a super-voiced woman whose only songs are remixed. She touched the hearts of music lovers with her deep voice, soul, and folk and blues-inspired compositions and became famous worldwide.
While describing the music of this deep-voiced woman, this song would be incomplete if we did not mention "Voodoo Cello", which is a truly magnificent album in which she interprets the songs she loves with 8 cellists...
“Voodoo Cello” consists of classics and recent popular hits that Imany has internalized for a long time, which sometimes touch our hearts and sometimes make us dance. The album includes 12 mesmerizing interpretations that are spontaneous, direct, and raw, unpolished but made to feel like crystal. The album starts with Jacques Brel's immortal "If You Go Away" and ends with Cat Stevens' "Wild World". You can start listening to "Voodoo Cello" right now to hear the immortal songs of names such as Elton John, Imagine Dragons, Ed Sheeran, and Bonnie Tyler, from Imany's magnificent and deep voice that touches our hearts...
Imany's beautiful voice makes us experience such beautiful emotions that we have difficulty in discovering. There is neither a strong sadness nor a heavy tone in her voice, everything is just right and in the right dose. In her songs; Touching on many topics from love to the struggle for women's rights, from climate change to political struggles, Imany takes us to different stages of life with her songs to which she adds the voice of her heart.
However, Imany has a song that is always number one for me... I think the lyrics of "I've Gotta Go" are perfect for flying... I can never leave without listening to this song...