Born in 2000, Maud Paquis grew up in Switzerland alongside her piano and computer keyboards.
As a child, she spent her time drawing on her nintendo DS, building boats for ants, and composing her first songs. A few years later, she enrolled in her first formal jazz piano lessons in the music school EJMA in Lausanne, before continuing her studies and obtaining her Bachelor’s degree at the HKB in Bern.
Maud is a multifaceted musician — a pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, she does (almost) everything by herself.
Her writing process often begins at the piano, where she composes chord progressions and melodies paired with lyrics inspired by her daily life, in a tone that is both sincere and slightly offbeat.
During the Covid pandemic in 2020, Maud composed the material for her first EP Morphée, released in 2022. Spanning jazz, bossa nova, and pop aesthetics, the EP preceded the release of her debut album Circé in 2025, which propelled her onto the stages of the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz Festival, and ZKB Jazz Prize, where she was awarded the audience prize.
In her forthcoming EP, set for release at the end of 2026, Maud continues in this vein, digging deeper into her lived experience. Whether the result is lighter or a little more on the heavy side, her voice is her own, inhabiting a warm pop that invokes Clairo, Men I Trust, or even Mac de Marco, in French of course.
Her next two singles, “Internet,” and “Si tu savais,” will come out this year. The first tackles her relationship to screens and the digital worlds that were made available to her, for better or for worse. The second evokes her childhood hopes and dreams, the inevitable disenchantment of adulthood, and the evolution of her self perception, set to mellotron and arpeggiated guitars brimming with chorus
