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Pauline Croze
Person · female · France · Noisy-le-Sec · born 1979 · recording since 2004
French singer
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Also known as Pualine Croze
Timeline
8 events▣ Album 6◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1970s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Pauline Croze
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography150 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371034735
Biography
Pauline Croze (born 4 May 1979, in Noisy-le-Sec) is a French pop/folk singer and musician.
She started to sing and play the guitar when she was fourteen and six years later she made her first demos with Quito of the group Señor Holmes. At this time she made her very first appearance on stage.
In 2003, she collaborated with Anne Claverie and Édith Fambuena of the Valentins in Transmusicales de Rennes, a work for which she is very well known.
She played as the support of Miossec, -M-, Bernard Lavilliers, Cali, Tryo or Lhasa.
In 2011, she collaborated with fellow French musician, Ben Mazué on his single, C'est léger, from his debut album.
Her first album Pauline Croze was released in February 2005, followed by Un bruit qui court
Un bruit qui courtSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Faux contacts3:522Un bruit qui court4:083Décembre2:444Les Gens qui jasent3:035Jour de foule3:366Nous voulons vivre4:057À l'évidence3:268Légère (Soulève-moi)3:079La Couleur de la mer2:3910Baiser d'adieu3:3611Sur ton front3:2512Valparaiso3:51 in 2007. Her third album, Le prix de l'Eden was released on 22 October 2012. She released Bossa nova in 2016.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 6 | 79.7th |
| Studio albums | 6 | 86.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 17 | 39.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (6 release groups · 6 studio albums)
Albums · 6
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 38:09
1Mise à nu3:292Dans la chaleur des nuits de pleine lune2:223M'en voulez-vous ?3:004Jeunesse affamée3:355T'es beau2:426Quand je suis ivre3:277Je suis floue1:518Je ferai sans3:179Larmes2:3610Tita3:2111Femme fossile3:0812Mal assis5:212007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 41:32
1Faux contacts3:522Un bruit qui court4:083Décembre2:444Les Gens qui jasent3:035Jour de foule3:366Nous voulons vivre4:057À l'évidence3:268Légère (Soulève-moi)3:079La Couleur de la mer2:3910Baiser d'adieu3:3611Sur ton front3:2512Valparaiso3:512012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 36:54
1Dans la ville2:452Le Prix de l’Eden2:423Aux quatre coins de toi3:284Cicatrices3:015Quelle heure est-il ?3:136Oui mais3:297Le Chant de l’orpailleur3:238De la joie2:379Heures creuses3:0210Cache cache4:0811Ma rétine5:062016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 33:54
1La Rua Madureira3:172Tu verras3:293Les eaux de Mars2:594Essa Moca Ta Diferente3:005Voce Abusou3:056Samba Saravah2:507Chorando Sim3:388Jardin d'hiver2:579A Felicidade3:0710La fille d'Ipanema2:2611La chanson d'Orphée (Manha Do Carnaval)3:062018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 33:44
1tu es partout3:022fièvre3:363ne rien faire3:244elle n'ose pas3:235L'élan3:326Olé2:567Il y a3:158Fallait pas3:259Tu m'ballades3:3210tellement bien3:392021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 33:25
1Je suis un renard3:102Phobe2:373Crever l'écran3:134Nuit d'errance3:015No derme4:076Le Monde3:267Kim4:138La Rocade3:259Solution2:4210Hippodrome3:31
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Pauline Croze head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 6 | 79.7th |
| Studio albums | 6 | 86.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 17 | 39.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pauline_Croze.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9e759871-95c1-49d4-8c59-c171a01c9d8fdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9e759871-95c1-49d4-8c59-c171a01c9d8fcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141798genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141798seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Crozebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Croze
Why this artist is in the database
- List of French singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Guillaume Laurent · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3141798 · MusicBrainz: 9e759871-95c1-49d4-8c59-c171a01c9d8f
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