Irma is the stage name for two artists: (1) the emerging Cameroonian folk/p… Read Full Bio ↴Irma is the stage name for two artists: (1) the emerging Cameroonian folk/pop/soul artist "Irma" and also (2) Swedish actress and pop singer Irma Schultz Keller.
(1) Irma (born 1988 in Douala, Cameroon) is a singer-songwriter from Cameroon. She is now living in France.
Irma is from a family with a musical background. Her father is guitarist and her mother was in a church choir. As a child Irma was performing at masses too. At age 15 she went to a high school in Paris to improve her school education.
No doubt about it: Irma is part of a generation that can do just about anything. She’s capable of removing the blinkers of received ideas and transcending the boundaries between categories. And she was also daring enough to re-record her first album, initially entrusted to the greatly respected New York producer, Henry Hirsch, long-time musical partner of Lenny Kravitz. “We recorded in a place two hours from New York, in a chapel that had been converted into a studio. I thought it sounded good, but when I listened to it again back in Paris, I was pretty disappointed! Too many musicians around her, too many effects and not the emotion she was after. Driven by the audacity of youth, the 20-year-old Irma took the risk of re-recording in Paris. And it was worth it because the album reveals her personality, with her soft vocals and hazy aura, and shows a gentle modesty that is perfectly consistent with her barely disguised shyness. She did most of the takes herself from the mixing desk in a studio converted from a former cellar. She played around with the various tracks to recreate the private world of this young woman barely out of childhood and give us a sense of the atmosphere of the bedroom where she composed for many years.
Born in Douala into a family from Bangangté in western Cameroon, Irma arrived in Paris in 2003 to continue her secondary school studies. She was 15 years old and already showing some serious talent. This was the start of a new life for the teenager, who discovered the voices of neo soul and singers “with guitars” as she puts it, starting with Ben Harper’s ‘Live from Mars’, one of her favourite albums given to her by her mother and ‘Change the World’ by Eric Clapton, which she dug up from her father’s record collection. The young Cameroonian guitarist and songwriter redid songs by her heroes in her own style and started posting videos on YouTube in 2007: for starters, a cover of ‘Au Suivant’ inspired by seeing –M- and Camille’s version on the TV programme Taratata, followed by the Jackson 5’s ‘I Want You Back’, Yael Naïm’s ‘New Soul’, and Django Reinhardt’s ‘After You’ve Gone’. It didn’t take long for praise to start flooding in; lots of fans wanted to find out (lots) more. Wanted to hear some of her own songs. They got ‘Letter to the Lord’ with its original black-and-white clip, and it opens the album. “I describe the process of searching for inspiration. I write to the Lord asking him to send me some chords. A love letter,” she says, never shy with references to her faith which is “very important” to her. Later she posted the wonderful ballad ‘Somehow’, a piano-vocal number that concludes the collection, opening up new horizons for this singer-songwriter who had until now composed her own personal brand of mostly sweet, sometimes bitter songs on the guitar. Irma prefers the subtle charms of light and dark to the glaring lights of seduction.
The hype built up so quickly that she started to receive emails from tempted producers, including a big cheese from My Major Company who’d succumbed immediately to the charms of ‘I Know’. Things moved very fast after that. In August 2008, the beautiful stranger succeeded in winning over 416 Internet co-producers in just one weekend; in under 48 hours she had collected the €70,000 she needed to record her first album. “It was amazing because we had reckoned on 5 months to get the money together.” She marked her arrival at My Major Company with a fundraising record that has not yet been matched! And we can expect a similarly bright future for this album composed of well-crafted tunes that will strike a chord with listeners of all generations, and choruses that draw on the influences of all the singers who have struck and shaken her heart, beginning with her absolute idol, Michael Jackson. “I’ve got everything of his! I love everything about him! His energy, his tunes, his voice, his sensitivity, his showmanship: he had the whole world spellbound! I’d only just started taking classical piano lessons!”
Irma trod the same fertile pop and soul path as the former little prince of soul who became the king of pop, if we want a resumé of her style that doesn’t, however, tell the full story. How can you sum up in a few words the multitude of influences that have gone into making this unclassifiable album? She is as indebted to Cat Power and Eric Clapton as she is to The Fugees and Queen, but you can also add Regina Spektor and Fink, the star of the Ninjatune team. “My songs are the fruit of everything I’ve assimilated: two seconds on the radio, a few notes in a film, or a whole album. I just need to set that all to music.” It’s not as if she’s a debutant. She brought a few of her own compositions with her from Cameroon – ‘I Know’, ‘Love You’, ‘End of the Story’ and others. A third of the album dates back to her early years when the little girl got her hands on a guitar her father had bought and taught herself to play. “Simple verse-chorus songs in a major key”, which the young woman she has become has since reworked to reflect her new liking for neo soul sounds, as on ‘Their Truth’ with its funky hip-hop-like beats, churchy organ, the crackling of vinyl records and her even warmer vocals.
You’ll have realised by now that Irma is a composite character with a shifting identity; multiple and yet singular. Like her songwriting. Her lyrics tell us about her without ever being autobiographical, stories of love, its joys and its disappointments. “The words come to me completely naturally,” Irma says modestly. But her lyrics certainly don’t lack irony. ‘Your Guide’, for example, pokes fun at young people who are indifferent to everything, already disappointed in love, have survived everything, against all the odds. She is quite the opposite, ready to embark on this strange journey called music and fully intending to perform live, a dimension she added in spring 2010. “I spent the whole of March 2010 with Diam’s. It was the first time I’d been on tour and travelled like that.” Irma has supported many different artists including –M-, Mickey and Tété since then. Each time she had “twenty minutes, five tracks”, completely alone with her guitar and her voice. And last autumn she performed weekly dates at the Java, just like a real star. The crowd always ended up falling under the spell of her husky melodies.
Her subtle charisma will overpower you too – and she promises to enchant us for many years to come.
(2) Irma Schultz Keller (born 1 October 1965) has appeared in many movies and television series in Sweden. As a singer, she has made five solo albums and participated in many other music projects like ‘Songs for December’ along with Uno Svenningsson. In 2007, Keller and Uno Svenningsson performed in Melodifestivalen and made it to the second chance round with the song ‘God Morgon’.
(1) Irma (born 1988 in Douala, Cameroon) is a singer-songwriter from Cameroon. She is now living in France.
Irma is from a family with a musical background. Her father is guitarist and her mother was in a church choir. As a child Irma was performing at masses too. At age 15 she went to a high school in Paris to improve her school education.
No doubt about it: Irma is part of a generation that can do just about anything. She’s capable of removing the blinkers of received ideas and transcending the boundaries between categories. And she was also daring enough to re-record her first album, initially entrusted to the greatly respected New York producer, Henry Hirsch, long-time musical partner of Lenny Kravitz. “We recorded in a place two hours from New York, in a chapel that had been converted into a studio. I thought it sounded good, but when I listened to it again back in Paris, I was pretty disappointed! Too many musicians around her, too many effects and not the emotion she was after. Driven by the audacity of youth, the 20-year-old Irma took the risk of re-recording in Paris. And it was worth it because the album reveals her personality, with her soft vocals and hazy aura, and shows a gentle modesty that is perfectly consistent with her barely disguised shyness. She did most of the takes herself from the mixing desk in a studio converted from a former cellar. She played around with the various tracks to recreate the private world of this young woman barely out of childhood and give us a sense of the atmosphere of the bedroom where she composed for many years.
Born in Douala into a family from Bangangté in western Cameroon, Irma arrived in Paris in 2003 to continue her secondary school studies. She was 15 years old and already showing some serious talent. This was the start of a new life for the teenager, who discovered the voices of neo soul and singers “with guitars” as she puts it, starting with Ben Harper’s ‘Live from Mars’, one of her favourite albums given to her by her mother and ‘Change the World’ by Eric Clapton, which she dug up from her father’s record collection. The young Cameroonian guitarist and songwriter redid songs by her heroes in her own style and started posting videos on YouTube in 2007: for starters, a cover of ‘Au Suivant’ inspired by seeing –M- and Camille’s version on the TV programme Taratata, followed by the Jackson 5’s ‘I Want You Back’, Yael Naïm’s ‘New Soul’, and Django Reinhardt’s ‘After You’ve Gone’. It didn’t take long for praise to start flooding in; lots of fans wanted to find out (lots) more. Wanted to hear some of her own songs. They got ‘Letter to the Lord’ with its original black-and-white clip, and it opens the album. “I describe the process of searching for inspiration. I write to the Lord asking him to send me some chords. A love letter,” she says, never shy with references to her faith which is “very important” to her. Later she posted the wonderful ballad ‘Somehow’, a piano-vocal number that concludes the collection, opening up new horizons for this singer-songwriter who had until now composed her own personal brand of mostly sweet, sometimes bitter songs on the guitar. Irma prefers the subtle charms of light and dark to the glaring lights of seduction.
The hype built up so quickly that she started to receive emails from tempted producers, including a big cheese from My Major Company who’d succumbed immediately to the charms of ‘I Know’. Things moved very fast after that. In August 2008, the beautiful stranger succeeded in winning over 416 Internet co-producers in just one weekend; in under 48 hours she had collected the €70,000 she needed to record her first album. “It was amazing because we had reckoned on 5 months to get the money together.” She marked her arrival at My Major Company with a fundraising record that has not yet been matched! And we can expect a similarly bright future for this album composed of well-crafted tunes that will strike a chord with listeners of all generations, and choruses that draw on the influences of all the singers who have struck and shaken her heart, beginning with her absolute idol, Michael Jackson. “I’ve got everything of his! I love everything about him! His energy, his tunes, his voice, his sensitivity, his showmanship: he had the whole world spellbound! I’d only just started taking classical piano lessons!”
Irma trod the same fertile pop and soul path as the former little prince of soul who became the king of pop, if we want a resumé of her style that doesn’t, however, tell the full story. How can you sum up in a few words the multitude of influences that have gone into making this unclassifiable album? She is as indebted to Cat Power and Eric Clapton as she is to The Fugees and Queen, but you can also add Regina Spektor and Fink, the star of the Ninjatune team. “My songs are the fruit of everything I’ve assimilated: two seconds on the radio, a few notes in a film, or a whole album. I just need to set that all to music.” It’s not as if she’s a debutant. She brought a few of her own compositions with her from Cameroon – ‘I Know’, ‘Love You’, ‘End of the Story’ and others. A third of the album dates back to her early years when the little girl got her hands on a guitar her father had bought and taught herself to play. “Simple verse-chorus songs in a major key”, which the young woman she has become has since reworked to reflect her new liking for neo soul sounds, as on ‘Their Truth’ with its funky hip-hop-like beats, churchy organ, the crackling of vinyl records and her even warmer vocals.
You’ll have realised by now that Irma is a composite character with a shifting identity; multiple and yet singular. Like her songwriting. Her lyrics tell us about her without ever being autobiographical, stories of love, its joys and its disappointments. “The words come to me completely naturally,” Irma says modestly. But her lyrics certainly don’t lack irony. ‘Your Guide’, for example, pokes fun at young people who are indifferent to everything, already disappointed in love, have survived everything, against all the odds. She is quite the opposite, ready to embark on this strange journey called music and fully intending to perform live, a dimension she added in spring 2010. “I spent the whole of March 2010 with Diam’s. It was the first time I’d been on tour and travelled like that.” Irma has supported many different artists including –M-, Mickey and Tété since then. Each time she had “twenty minutes, five tracks”, completely alone with her guitar and her voice. And last autumn she performed weekly dates at the Java, just like a real star. The crowd always ended up falling under the spell of her husky melodies.
Her subtle charisma will overpower you too – and she promises to enchant us for many years to come.
(2) Irma Schultz Keller (born 1 October 1965) has appeared in many movies and television series in Sweden. As a singer, she has made five solo albums and participated in many other music projects like ‘Songs for December’ along with Uno Svenningsson. In 2007, Keller and Uno Svenningsson performed in Melodifestivalen and made it to the second chance round with the song ‘God Morgon’.
Somehow
Irma Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Somehow' by these artists:
A.P.A.M.A.U Ay we gone celebrate And let them things clap Barely made it…
Abby Sarabia Couple years ago You went steep on me Had to let…
As Isaac These things that I think I need The things I cannot…
Benoit Tab What can I do? I can't stop thinkin' about you Oh, what…
Bird's View I fell some how For this to show Brought you some flowers Pl…
Caught a Ghost Sometimes Im so high That I just float I cant even think…
Citizen Cope Could you believe me somehow You're second to none And you g…
Citizen Shade As certain as the water is between us I'm doubtful as…
Clifford T. Ward Somehow you know When she comes near She's the one You'r…
Dash Berlin Somehow someday I'll move on if it kills me When the wold…
Dash Berlin & 3LAU Featuring Bright Lights Loving you... Loving you... Somehow someday I'll move on if…
Dash Berlin & 3LAU ft. Bright Lights Somehow someday I'll move on if it kills me When the wold…
Dash Berlin/3Lau/Bright Lights Somehow someday I'll move on if it kills me When the wold…
demxntia I would trade it all away to go back now To…
Dinis Mateus I try to give you all I've got I try to…
Drake Bell She stares at the moon Her ribbons out of tune…
Empty Isles Somehow I've always loved you Sometimes for no reason at all…
Golden Caves No one would know how far I'll go. No one…
HAELIUM I believe somehow, oh yeah I believe somehow, oh yeah I beli…
Hicks Taylor There's too many things Left to be unsaid Some live in a…
J-Naphtali You were once My one companion You were all That mattered Yo…
Jade Hopcroft Somehow it feels like this is all we′ve known In love…
James Yuill Whenever I'm down You're always around me You sit on my shou…
Jamie 왠지 요즘 자꾸 아무 때고 피식 입꼬리가 올라가고 바보 같단 말에도 웃음이…
Jason Collett It hurts, love hurts Words, there are no words I was sorry…
Jeanette Lindström Out of nothing Comes this thing Out of hopeless Comes someth…
Jessia I was bleeding in your car Thought I ruined our third…
Jimmy There is a girl, she is everything to me I close…
Jondo Martin Somehow Somewhere and I call call you my heavenly pearl oh …
Josh Rouse & Kurt Wagner Blood absorbed into the bread of man Grows heavy on the…
Joss Stone The fire in his belly's taking over He never watched the…
Joy Oladokun There's this place in my hometown Silent secret sacred groun…
KIM JAE HYUNG 넌 지루했나봐 지금 혹은 그 미래를 견딜 수가 없어 세상의…
Kllo Keep it in the dark It's a controversial move Just how much…
KR I feel alive Won’t ever lie If we die tonight At…
Lee Yerin 우린 너무 가벼워 무겁게 안았지 그건 아마 일종의 죄책감 같았어 나는 괜찮지…
Liberty Deep Down I spend my nights driving nowhere til I see the…
Lindsey Webster Beyond this plane I know you are safe from pain And this…
Louisiana's LeRoux/Tab Benoit What can I do? I can't stop thinkin' about you Oh, what…
Lu Jerz (Intro) Everytime I turn around, I turn around Them clothes …
Martin Jondo Somehow Somewhere And I call, call you my heavenly pearl…
Matthew McNeal On a night like tonight You can feel it in the…
Merriment Could someone tell me when the light is green? Or hide…
Nam Woo Hyun 오늘따라 왠지 더 네가 생각나는 이 밤 알고 싶지 않았었지 네가…
Navel I'm digging my hole ´fore I fall into your I'm stroking…
No More Lullabies My outlook seems to be so grey I'm not afraid to…
Nothing Ends Somehow you'll find a new home to stay And you will…
O.C.D New crib new job I got new space New hair new…
O3ohn was in a cave when that worry keeps turn back Was…
Olsen Twinz Taking a look through the window makes me wanna be a…
Organized Konfusion Chorus: (repeat x2) Somehow, Someway We be comin up wit funk…
Pamphlets Finally something performative I'm so sick of staying inform…
Passage 4 Minutes of rewarning. Seconds of affair. A guillotine for wh…
Perfidious Words You are a mortal dream The menace angel I esteem And every…
Phony Ppl Living by myself Paranoid as hell There′s nothing I can do Y…
Poor Reflection You've been feeling see through Melancholy, all blue Is that…
Rebecca Moore Cause you believe me somehow You're second to none And you g…
Redeem/Revive Maybe you know me better You’re taking one time so clever Yo…
Rev. James Moore I am tired and weary but I must toil on Till…
Ryan Adams I want to tell you something That I shoud've, long ago I…
Sam Morgan It's a bittersweet taste In my mouth It's so hard loving Whe…
Sea Offs Stare at the ceiling Painted corridor Buried in thinking Sin…
Shirley Bassey You are what you are It was, what it was The…
Shye Oh how And where do I go from here Somehow Somewhere I can…
Sizzla Way recoil! Testing, testing, 1 2 3 4 5 Seal ah sever Love…
Smokey Joe & The Kid Living on Hollywood streets Making memories Now you don’t f…
Snuff Over the top of a lager in wineless wine bar I…
Soa Something connect us In silence, deflecting …
Starcatcher I am not sure how To make it out Yeah I'm not sure…
Submariner I threw all my hopes and dreams Down into a wishing…
Sunbeam Sound Machine Just tonight... please stay Just tonight... please stay (?)…
Tab Benoit What can I do? I can't stop thinkin' about you Oh, what…
Taylor Hicks There's too many things Left to be unsaid Some live in a…
Tedeschi Trucks Band How many times will you walk away? How many times is…
The Red Pears You came here by surprise Oh everything felt nice The olden …
The Vapors I've seen it before I know the score You're trying to be…
Tom Odell I don't speak the language that you speak There're some word…
Toun-e When you see The final light You might think It's a trap Bu…
Travis Atreo Well I am still in this bed but my heart…
Travis-Atreo Lying still in this bed, but my heart is restless Chasing…
Two and Yuna Strung out, dry mouth Cold showers to wake up Rolls off the…
Vapors I've seen it before I know the score You're trying to be…
Various Artists You were once My one companion You were all That mattered Yo…
w-inds. OH GIRL 君が失くした恋のことを聞いたよ 正直 高鳴った胸 …そんな自分が嫌になる 風まかせの恋だから…
Woods of Desolation Grey visions of today Every sight the same I can not break…
YUILL James Whenever I'm down You're always around me You sit on my shou…
YXUNGTARZAAN We found a way somehow... Had to come and save the…
余佳运 作词：余佳运 作曲：余佳运 编曲：余佳运@CosmicVoiceLab 漫天辰星都一一坠入你眼里 你眼里倒映出我闪躲的神…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Irma:
Black Sun Watch out it's here, the monster's free Their starving jaws …
Det Kommer En Gryning Hll ett fnster ppetoch en livboj vid din bdden natt…
Douala Paris À 5 000 bornes plus haut Après le sable et après…
End of the Story So it seems like it's the end of the fight But…
Everybody Aha aha aha aa a aha, Go down everybody but i…
Hear Me Out Hear me out As I talk to you Don't close your eyes I…
I Know Yo Comment tu pourrais leur dire? I'd like to tell you just…
Let's Talk About Love Puisque l'ombre gagne Puisqu'il n'est pas de montagne Au-del…
Letter To The Lord I wrote a letter to the Lord Begging him to send…
Love You You took me somewhere I don't know Somewhere I've never bee…
Precis Som Du Precis som du Precis som du Ibland så känns det som om…
Saudade Relembrar é o olhar parado no tempo, que não coube…
Save Me When the sun goes down When the night breaks the charm Tha…
Stereo Time is on my side, yes it is Time is on…
Street Lights A big brown paper coffee cup My suitcase in the other…
Stureplan Nu vaknar en ensam liten man Han är trött och han…
Ta Mig Tillbaka Ta mig tillbaks, tillbaks till då jag fick min allra…
The (Ir) Truth Take it easy, make it right If they're wrong, don't start…
The Name of the Game I've seen you twice, in a short time Only a week…
The river is flowing The river is waiting, come rise up A new day is…
the truth Take it easy, make it right If they′re wrong, don't start…
the way it is All I know is the way I feel Anything that makes…
The(Ir) Truth Take it easy, make it right If they're wrong, don't start…
Trouble Maker I used to run away Away from my own mind Away from…
Unconditional I remember how I used to sit there Wondering in the…
Venom of Angels Spit out your joy now All over me, mm Venom of angels…
Watching Crap On TV You got me smoking like a chimney top You got me…
Will I Ever Growing up wasn’t easy for me A tragedy hit the family Left…
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