Biography // Frenchy Music

Biography

Natacha Dumont, known as Frenchy, was born on December 18^th, 1990 in Cannes, France.
Half Italian, half French, Natacha had a peaceful childhood surrounded by the love of her family. Music has always played an important part in Natacha’s life.
Since her youngest age she has been taking piano, dancing and singing lessons while performing every chance she got at family and friends event. Apart from her musical interest, she was also fond of science.
Due to her excellent school records, she was allowed to graduate in science, one year ahead at age 17. She then started her undergrad studies in Chemistry at Valrose, University of Science in Nice, France. After 4 semesters, Natacha decided to devote herself fully to her music.

Her dream was to go to New York and study Music. In order to accomplish her dream, she started to work and managed to save enough money for her time abroad.
She arrived to New York City in January 2011. To make her stay truly memorable she decided to live with a Colombian host family, which became like her own.
They gave her “Frenchy” nickname, and it has stuck ever since. She chose to attend the “Vocal Workout Music School” in Soho and the “Sabella-Mills Voice Studio”. Attending two different schools allowed her to broader her technique spectrum and proved to be complementary.

As she continued her singing lessons she took part in numerous open mic nights in New York City. Those events allowed her to extend her musical network. Natacha got introduced to Diesel (Universal Music Publishing) and Marcus John Bryant (EMI Publishing), two major producers in the USA who showed an interest in her work and a potential collaboration. With them, she recorded her two first original songs “Do or Die” (June 2012 with Diesel) and “PS I love you” (June 2012 with Marcus J. Bryant).

After a year in New York, she decided it was time to go back to France. Instead of living in the South close to her family, she moved to Paris where music opportunities were more likely to happen.
After successfully auditioning at “L’Atelier du chant” she started attending the professional program of the school, which includes singing lessons, songwriting classes, acting classes…
At the same time, Frenchy is still working hard on her music. She performs in Parisian bars and restaurants while composing and singing new original songs, hoping that one day she will stand out!