Karen Ann arrives in Israel this week for three performances • Her entire new album is in French, and she admits that speaking Hebrew on stage challenges her, and yet she is excited to "meet my audience in Israel"

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When she's not touring, Karen Ann wakes up in her home in Paris at 5:00 am to write. In her drawers, besides the songs, there are also soundtracks for movies and plays, one children's book and even an opera written and relaunched in about two years.

At 7:30 she restores her 7-year-old daughter and takes her to school. Until her daughter's return from school, the writing goes on and on. This diligent day-to-day routine teaches quite a bit about the causes of Ann Anne's success, which we so much love to consider as one of ours who "did it" in the big world. This week (February 26 - 28), she arrives for a short tour of the country, which includes three performances in Jerusalem, Zichron Yaacov and Tel Aviv, where she concludes two decades of musical work.

Ann (45) was born in Israel in recent years. She lives and works in Paris. Her new album, "Bleue", is all in French. "I've been living in Paris for almost four and a half years," she says. "My leg, which was also planted in New York - has had very little in it. My whole life was done in French. I couldn't pronounce it in a different color or language," she explains.

In such an era, is there still a meaning for an entire album?

"I grew up on vinyl records and CDs, on the first and second sides, a story that has a beginning, middle and end. A single is like seeing one painting or one photograph in an exhibition. "It makes you creative and renewed all the time. For me, every time I want to release a single, I make a record."

One of the duets in the new album is with rock legend David Byrne, soloist of the touring myrtle band. How is the connection formed between you?

"In 2011 at the end of my show in New York, I told my show manager 'What a section, in line 2 sat someone who is very similar to David Byrne,' which I am of course a big fan of. He replied to me, "He is not like this, he is." The next day Byrne complimented his blog, and I thought I passed out. A few years later, he contacted me and asked to perform my song Strange Weather in a duet with Anna Calby. I fell out of excitement. When the song Le goût d'inachevé (taste of something unfinished) was written as a duet for the new album - I was hoping Byrne would agree to sing it. He agreed, came to Paris and we recorded the song together in the studio. "

Which musicians are you listening to today?

"People expect me to give some list of up-to-date singer-songwriters, but I don't connect with music made in this area today. I listen to Snoop Dogg, Cardi Bee, Nicki Minaj and sometimes the Berlin Philharmonic. Habibi, and just thanks to this song is worth saying that there is a whole generation of young artists who are going to do us good on the soul. "

What are you planning on performing in Israel?

"There will be a little bit of all the periods, without a lot of arrangements. It will be an exciting meeting with the audience for me. It is still a little challenging for me to stand on stage and speak in Hebrew, because I am so used to English and French, but in any case I am very excited, I came to Israel to meet My audience. I really like to sing, but it's just a tool to tell something personal, to share a perspective on the world. "

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