Born Nadia Mladjao in 1979 in Martigues, of Comorian descent, Imany grew up in a family of ten children and left at 17 to work as a model in the United States, where she lived for seven years. Tired of that career and moved by Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution,” she turned to music upon returning to Paris in 2008. Her debut album, The Shape of a Broken Heart (2011), carried by the single “You Will Never Know” and steeped in soul, folk and blues, was certified platinum. Her deep, distinctive voice later led her to compose the soundtrack for the film Sous les jupes des filles (2013).