In 2025, Tanya St-Val celebrates her 40-year music career. On April 25, Guadeloupean zouk singer released her new single entitled “Dépozé”.
“Dépozé” is presented as “a track full of sweetness, groove and truth”. Through it, Guadeloupean singer goes to war against the “digital agitation” that invades our society, and invites us to “turn off our screens and savor the silences and shared glances”. Produced by Netty Prod, “Dépozé” is available on all legal download and streaming platforms. The single is accompanied by an intimate video directed by Cigey Design.
Tanya St-Val is one of the most well-known and popular Guadeloupean artists of her generation. Presented as an ambassador of zouk, the singer-songwriter also performs other French Caribbean music such as gwoka, biguine, soul-zouk and Caribbean jazz. Besides, accompanied by some of today’s finest musicians, she offers two concepts for her live concerts: “Tanya Zouk” (the most appreciated by the audience), where she performs her zouk classics and hits, as well as new compositions, and “Tanya Autrement”, where she offers a repertoire with soul and Caribbean jazz influences…
Tanya St-Val has collaborated with renowned artists such as Johnny Halliday and Francis Cabrel (France), Angélique Kidjo (Benin), Bisso Na Bisso (France-Africa), Jacob Desvarieux and Jean-Michel Rotin (Guadeloupe), Victor O (Martinique), Émeline Michel, Dadou Pasket and Alan Cavé (Haiti)…
Tanya St-Val, who celebrates her 40-year music career in 2025, has to her credit: 17 albums including “Voyage” in 2016, directed by Jonathan Jurion; “Tanya Mania” in 2011, produced by Nettyprod, which is a compilation of her greatest hits on the occasion of her 25-year career with the song “An Té Vlé Di’w” in tribute to Patrick Saint-Éloi nicknamed the “King of Zouk-Love” ; “Soleil” in 2008, directed by Ali Angel; “Ansanm” in 2002, released on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Abolition of Slavery (1802-2002), with the participation of Haitian artists Émeline Michel and Alan Cavé to give this opus a Caribbean scale; “Améthiste” in 1996, directed by Lauran Romain, composed and arranged by Jean-Michel Rotin and Pascal Adams; “Mi” in 1994, produced by Phonogram / Mercury France and engineered by Willy Salzédo and Jean-Christophe Maillard; “Soul Zouk” in 1991, produced by Phonogram / Mercury France, engineered and arranged by Joe Dworniak, whose track “Tropical” spent 14 weeks in the Top 50 in France.
Real businesswoman, the artist created her own label in 2000 and produced her last four albums..
Other figures retrace the singer’s career: almost twenty featurings, over 200 songs, about 800,000 albums sold, over 1,000 concerts in iconic venues including in the French capital (Olympia, Casino de Paris, Zénith, Trianon, La Cigale), and over 18 million streams.
On February 24, 2024, at La Cigale in Paris, Tanya St-Val gave her fans “Tanya St-Val Forever”, whose stage design was made by Astrid Siwsanker. During this great show, the artist – surrounded by talented musicians (Jonathan Jurion/piano; Thierry Jean-Pierre/bass; Alex Cabit/guitar; Jérémie Fonclaud/percussion; Yoann Danier/drums; Nicolas Pelage, Linda Rey and Cindy Marthély/back-up vocals) – performed her biggest hits revisited and some unreleased songs.
To celebrate her 40 years in the music world, Tanya St-Val has certainly planned some surprises for her many fans in Guadeloupe and beyond…
