Jenny
The voice came first.
Singing was Jenny Renard’s first dream, even if dance became her first profession.
The story of Jenny Renard
The first dream
She had wanted to become a singer since childhood. When that path did not open to her, dance became her way onto the stage. At eighteen, she committed to professional dance training and went on to work on stages in Berlin, Vienna and internationally.
Returning to the voice
The original ambition never disappeared. Jenny began formal vocal training in 2009, grounded chiefly in classical technique. During a six-month engagement in Reno in 2011, she sang in every show, and the voice assumed an increasingly important place in her professional life on stage. After returning to Vienna, the balance gradually shifted from dance towards singing. She worked with bands and took part in a range of musical projects.
A defining encounter
Marlene Dietrich’s German interpretation of Jacques Brel’s Ne me quitte pas gave that change a direction. Jenny returned to the song repeatedly, listening to it and singing it until the idea of pursuing her own path as a singer came into clearer focus.
Chanson
Later, her vocal teacher drew her further into French chanson and introduced her more deeply to artists including Édith Piaf. Around 2016, Jenny began performing chanson in concert. What stayed with her was not simply the repertoire, but the immediate response it created between the songs, the singer and the audience. That exchange became the reason to develop chanson into an artistic direction of her own.
Today
Chanson in her own voice
Today, Jenny Renard presents chanson without sacrificing its distinctive sound or emotional directness, and without treating it as a period piece. Her current programme, La Vie en Rose, brings Paris, love, memory, loss and joie de vivre together in a concert evening with a dramatic life of its own.
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