New York

In 2017, I went to New York for the first time, just for a few days. I fell hard for the city: the energy, the pace, the people, the way it makes anything feel possible.

I flew home already knowing I'd be back.

Whenever I ran low on energy, needed to reconnect with my creativity or move my projects forward, I'd book another flight to New York. The city always gets me going again.

After getting my law degree, I moved there for several months to focus on what I really wanted to do, and to build confidence in myself and my projects. I get that same feeling every time I go back.

I settled in the East Village, on St. Marks Place. A neighborhood of artists, small venues and late-night cafés, where you run into everyone.

I lived there for several months, with my own routines, my coffee spot, my music venues. That's where New York became my city, not just a place I visited.

Music has always fueled my creativity, and it was a big part of that time. In New York, I bought my first guitar and learned to play it on the lawns of Washington Square. I practiced piano at Juilliard and, at night, I sang at open mics: on the legendary stage of The Bitter End, or at Bo Peep, the speakeasy hidden beneath The Rag Trader.

Those open stages gave me confidence, and my first ideas for event concepts. Back in Paris, one of them became Under Sorbonne, an open stage for students.

New York is part of my story, and I want it to be part of my work too. But moving there as a French citizen is a long, uncertain process. So I found another way to keep that bond alive, with the city and with the people I met there.

I've never worked there, but I know the city, its energy and its high standards. Now I want to give back what it gave me, by showing New Yorkers the very best of France: finding the venues, running the teams on the ground, and bringing our two cultures together for the length of an event.