World music in an intimate setting
Songs of past and present, near and far Chanteuse Jessica Fichot evokes Paris and old Shanghai at Collage by Bondo Wyszpolski For those on the alert for musicians with a singular grace and style, it is impossible to bypass Jessica Fichot, whose first two albums were in the French chanson tradition and whose third album is a paean to 1940s Shanghai jazz. This youthful sounding artist and her quartet, with guest Annie Zhou on guzheng, perform on Saturday, April 9, at Collage. “I grew up in France, in a suburb of Paris, close to Versailles,” she says. You always knew you wanted to be a musician? Jessica Fichot. Photo by Timothi Graham“I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know that,” Fichot replies. “I think it came from the fact that I just liked to sing, and my parents never discouraged me. That’s probably why I never changed my mind; and then probably a lot of it is delusion, where you imagine that it’s going to be a certain glamorous life.” She laughs. “Now I know that it’s not always glamorous, but I can take it with a sense of humor.” After high school in France, Fichot came back to the States (she was born in upstate New York to a French father and Chinese mother) and soon…
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