Life and career
Andria was born in Antsirabe, Madagascar. Her mother is a descent from the royal family of King Andriandranandobe, [2] and her father was, originally, a singer/guitar player, but went to work for the national Oil and Gas company, to provide a more stable family income.
As a youth, her father, who was the leader of rock n' blues band the "CCC guitars", taught her about jazz and blues music. She developed her skills on the guitar with two of her brothers, who founded the acclaimed band L.A Doudh, [3] which won an award as the best alternative rock band in Madagascar in 1998. She learned various genres of music through her musical household.
Andria rose to fame by being the finalist among thousand contestants, in 2003, of the nationally broadcast TV Contest show Pazzapa. [4] Her first single, in her mother tongue, "K'atao ahoana moa", released just right after the TV show, brought Andria to the position of a valuable and notable young artist of the nation.
Andria then moved to France and pursued a degree in Economics and Management at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, with majoring in Finance and Banking. She is fluent in four languages: Malagasy, French, English and Spanish. She has been naturalized as a French citizen in 2015.
In 2008, she met the French DJ Sims [5] of Now Futur, [6] who produced her first EP Out of Stage.
In 2010, she went back to Madagascar for few months to be with her mother who was suffering from cancer. Most of her songs included in her EP Something New, released in 2013, were written and produced during that stay.
Andria left the indie record label Kulture Label right after the release of Something New and started to work with another indie record label named Be Live Records in 2014. Meanwhile, she multiplied collaborations with various artists from different backgrounds on different side projects, such as French DJ Ilo Bosco or her duet with Joel Rabesolo in the band "The GasyQuarians".
She released her single "Used 2" (feat. Ilo Bosco) on 7 September 2015. On 30 June 2016, Andria confirmed the new musical direction she chose, electro-soul music, with the release of her EP "Covered (The remix)". [7] Thrilled to experience music in all forms, Andria started to spin some records as a DJ in some private parties in Europe during the whole year of 2016. There she launched a side project or alter ego, LAINGO, as a Deep House music producer and DJ. Andria explained that the alter ego will help to make a clear distinction between her career as a singer and her career as a DJ which she intended to develop as well.
She dropped her first single as the alter ego LAINGO on 30 December 2016 on Soundcloud [8] and officially released it on 11 January 2017. [9]
Meanwhile, Nataly Andria, is officially introduced in the Hall of fame of Divas of Madagascar, when she sang the national anthem of her birth country, for the President of the Republic of Madagascar, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, at the UNESCO headquarters, on 1 December 2016 at the donators for Madagascar Conference. [10]
Following that, Andria represented her birth country Madagascar, performing at the closing ceremony of the 12th African Games in Rabat, Morocco, on 31 August 2019. [11]
During the Covid-19 pandemic, in May 2020, she released a live album Live at Urban Café [12] recorded in her home country, Madagascar 10 years prior. Andria has announced that the album was a full circle as she is planning to release new records under new musical direction.
