Meet 21-year-old singer-songwriter Petite Meller - she is currently living in east London but is originally from Paris.
She says she's inspired by the jazz records she grew up with, but has a love of African beats and the music from her homeland.
After travelling to New York and hanging out in jazz bars, she says she started seeing reminders of home.
Petite says that led her to create her own genre, "nouveau jazzy pop".
"My music is a combination of jazz, French chanson (French songs) and Eurotrash - because I love to dance," she tells Newsbeat.
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We meet the much talked about singer at The Dairy, in south London, where she is recording her debut album, Milk Bath.
There's no connection though - it's just a "coincidence" she smiles.
Petite says the record is actually "about milk and the first meal you have in life".
Like most of us, her childhood was full of music her parents listened to and that has shaped her musical career.
"When I was a child I used to sit in a room full of records on the floor and I was just listening to them over and over," she explains.
"Mostly jazz, some African records and a bit of disco."
Petite Meller performed for Radio 1 for Rob da Bank's Your Fantasy Festival at the BBC's Maida Vale studios
She is also a postgraduate philosophy student in Paris, and this is reflected in her writing.
"I believe in the philosophical term Jouissance, which means pleasure out of pain," she explains.
"My songs are coming from my hardest pain, but I always come to this studio and I end up dancing."
She has a very distinct look and style. Her clothes have a touch of the Japanese "harajuku girls" style about it, perhaps down to her stylist Nao Koyabu, who she met through social media.
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But what is most distinctive about Petite is the layer of blusher she wears on her cheeks and over her nose.
"As a child, I was really harshly sunburnt," she explains about the make-up. "I was in hospital and it was a bit of a trauma for me.
"When I was teenager, we used to put lots of blush on my face and at the start people were laughing at me when I went to the bank or to normal places.
"But when I became an artist I felt like it is a symptom of mine. You should wear your trauma proudly."
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