“As an opera student at McGill University in Montreal, Alarke developed an interest that didn’t necessarily correspond to her studies: electronic music. It took moving to Brooklyn and embarking on a career as a gypsy jazz singer to finally bring electronica into the mix....” – The Washington Post

BIO

Alarke, also known as Mary Alouette, is a Los Angeles-based house and dance pop singer, songwriter, music producer, DJ, and artist coach. Fans often describe her as Lady Gaga meets Portishead meets Madonna.

Alarke has been performing professionally in pop, electronic, jazz, opera, theater, and film for 27 years and has taught thousands of musicians for 16 years. Her albums have won the Grand Prize in the Washington Area Music Association’s Songwriting Competition, New Artist of the Year, and Best Debut Album.

She was an Artist-in-Residence at Strathmore and with the Brooklyn Arts Council. She received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance with special studies in Digital Composition from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Canada.

A web3 enthusiast, she has DJed at FWB FEST (see Washington Post article in which she is on the initial photo), led an FWB City Keys Event, is one of 25 select creators in the Lens Protocol Creator Cohort, and sang opera and pop on the Songcamp x Friends With Benefits songwriting camp single produced as an NFT, Artifactual Memories. She’s a member of a number of DAOs including FWB, Songcamp, Arkive, Refraction, Arpeggi, ChillRx, Venice Music, HiFiLabs, Async, and more.

Alarke also coaches musicians in artist and professional development with her platform SupremeSound.Life.

Select performances:

• Rainbow Room at the top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza

• Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage

• Apollo Theater's National Tour

• Carnegie Hall

• U.S. National Mall

• Sofar Sounds

• Strathmore

• Blues Alley

• Rockwood

• Live film scoring at Nitehawk Cinema

• Major League Baseball - Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards and Washington Nationals at Nationals Park

• Major League Soccer - DC United RFK Stadium

• Fabrica de Arte (Havana, Cuba)

• EA Games’ Boogie Superstar

Favorite experiences:

• creating a month-long solo artist retreat and writing and recording jazz and hip hop albums with artists in Cuba

• volunteering as the music director at the Ritsona Refugee Camp in Greece with I Am You Humanitarian Aid with Broadway, film, and television talent and crew

• singing Gypsy jazz music and residing with Romani Gypsy musicians at the Festival Django Reinhardt in France

• apprenticing as a mixing engineer and producer for multi-platinum producers artists in New York City, including A$AP Rocky with Daniel Lynas, Alex Dadras, and Frans Mernick

• performing in Carmen in the Washington Opera under the baton of Maestro Placido Domingo

• singing at Carnegie Hall with the Choral Arts Society of Washington and the New York Philharmonic

• studying and performing opera in Austria with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz and Italy with the Schlern International Music Festival

• serving on the grant panel with the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities to award fellowships to musicians

• working on a vineyard and living in the historic Château de Paraza in the south of France

Recent mentors:

• Laura Escudé of Electronic Creatives and Transmute (Kanye West, Jay Z, Logic, The Weeknd, AlunaGeorge, etc.)

• DiViNCi, controllerist for Ms. Lauryn Hill

• Spiderhound (producer and A&R for Producer Dojo)

• Amber Horsburgh with the School of Deep Cuts

MIXTAPE: LIKE JELLY

HOUSE + ELECTRONIC

GYPSY JAZZ + INDIE JAZZ ELECTRONIC

(LIONHEART: GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON AREA MUSIC AWARDS)

CLASSICAL

Press

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“Alouette has all the best qualities — original songwriting, respectful nods to traditional sounds and an effervescent stage presence.” – Cathy Fink, GRAMMY Award winner

“Alarke’s performances draw you in with their soft, hypnotic qualities, turning each song into a dialogue between her and the audience.” – Brooklyn Exposed

“I suppose now that technology is so portable, it was only a matter of time until someone tried incorporating electronic elements into gypsy jazz. But that’s not everything Mary Alouette does. With a voice that sounds wild but always in control, this ex-opera student’s sound is too multifaceted to be pigeonholed in a few sentences. Gypsy/Jazz influences intersect with old style French ballads and wicked trip hop/ambient tracks – and sometimes all these ingredients get mixed together.” – The Deli Magazine NYC

“Echoes the likes of Billie Holiday” – Baltimore Magazine

“The [Angel] track is a trip hoppy number, landing somewhere between Tricky’s intense musical whiffs and some kind of new-age-that-doesn’t-suck placidity. A song about a good, but also weird, trip in the tub, nothing sounds better than that right now…” – The Deli Magazine NYC

“Her vocals adapt to both traditional and modern sounds. She can project power with her opera-trained voice, and also express vulnerability on stories of love and loss. She exudes a sense of mystery, whether she is singing her own complex lyrics or a cabaret song in French.” – Allentown Morning Call

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