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Coco Aikura is a German artist, composer and performer. As a piano player from Lüneburg, Germany, Coco Aikura has been at home in the music world since she was six years old. She performed at classical music competitions in Germany. At 19, she hitchhiked around the world alone with a backpack for 14 months. She learned to play guitar and played on the streets of Mexico City, Sydney and Bali. In 2012, her musical career took off: she co-founded the band Yalta Club in Paris, which released its eponymous debut album (Radicalis, Atmosphériques, Factory 92, FKP Skopio) to great success. Concerts, festivals and TV appearances followed in France (L'Emission Antoine Caunes, France 3 Régions), but also in Germany (ZDF Morgen Magazin), Austria and Switzerland. A few years later, the second album "Hybris" ran on French and German radio stations. As a part of Yalta Club, Coco (vocals, keyboard) went on to open for Madness, Les Wampas and Dionysos and played festivals in front of M, Lily Wood and the Prick or even Cats on Trees. 

On the tenth anniversary of her European career with Yalta Club, Coco Aikura announces through social networks the preparation of her first solo album, releasing her first single "Not Like You", produced with the German-Italian producer MissinCat. You can still feel the soul of Yalta Club in her first album: an album of electro-pop in German, French and English with a touch of melancholy. Since 2021, the artist has been touring mainly in northern Germany (20 concerts in 2022) and produced two dates in Paris (Pan Piper and Pop Up du Label). 

Her album "A Place Called Home" (accompanied by Musigamy, Factory 92, Ephélide and Absilone) includes 11 original tracks defended by Coco Aikura alone on stage, surrounded by her guitar, her keyboard, a looper with drum pad and her electronic arrangements. As Télérama, a well-known French music magazine puts it:

«  Coco Aikura est la voix du quintette franco-germanique Yalta-Club, dont elle s’est échappée pour concocter son premier album solo. Un disque où elle pose, en anglais, français et allemand sa (belle) voix sur une electro-pop low tempo riche en atmosphère frissonnante et en textes très actuels »

                                                            Télérama - Frédérique Péguillan, 25.02.2023

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