About

Pauline Maudy is a French-Australian singer, songwriter and artistic director known for her folk band MZAZA, her prolific collaborations as a solo artist, and her intensively touring projects, particularly in Europe and Australia. Her work has been widely recognised through awards such as the Australian Folk Music Artist of the Year Award (2023), the Lord Mayor’s Fellowship (2023), and Queensland Music Awards for Best Song (World) in 2015, 2016 and 2021. 

Her third album with six-piece MZAZA, ‘The Birth and Death of Stars’, a finalist in the Australian Folk Music Awards, was described by Songlines Magazine as “a supernova of an album ★★★★”, and featured in the Transglobal World Music charts for two months.

Pauline sings in a multitude of languages and collaborates across genres with artists such as Balkan/Latin/Punk 15-piece L’Orchestre International du Vetex (BE/FRA), contemporary classical composer Robert Davidson (AU), guitarist Anthony Garcia (AU), jazzwoman Lisa Liu (USA), acclaimed lyricist Boris Bergman (FRA), Bosnian/Australian composer Goran Gajic (AU), and folk/punk songwriter Paddy McHugh (AU). She has supported Baba Zula (TUR), the Violent Femmes (USA), and DJ Click (FR).

She is also the Artistic Director of Human Symphony, a company that produces multi-disciplinary stage shows, musical works, and community engagement programs. Notably, she developed the critically-acclaimed touring production ‘MZAZA: The Birth & Death of Stars’.

This is a model of femininity that society has bottled up because it can’t accommodate it.

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With a plethora of notches on her belt, Maudy paves the way for hungry minds eager to satiate their musical, cultural and intellectual appetites.

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