Valérie Sajdik, roots are multiple. There is the Litfass family on the mother’s side, somewhere in Prussia. The name Sajdik itself seems to come from a slovakian village. Valerie was born on April second, 1978, in Vienna. Her proud parents spread the word by an announcement in the New York Times : Valerie, a star is born , not imagining what consequences this would have. As the daughter of a diplomate and a jounalist, she would spend most of her childhood in Moscow, Russia, where she went to French school, thus being raised in a multilingual environment (German, French, Russian, English). After the fall of the soviet union in 1991, she would return to Vienna. Quite unhappy about her life in a catholic boardingschool, she went to live one semester in Pennsylvania with an unconventional american family who had inhaled the spirit of Woodstock. Barbara, the stepmother, was a singer, and Valerie accompanied her on her concerts and discovered her passion for singing. Back in Vienna, Valerie tried her first recordings ; she released the singles baby in my bed, Sunday morning and her first French title, l’amour existe…, already philosophizing about love. Her first performances take place in discos. Parallel to studying law, Valerie was admitted to the Conservatory in Vienna and studied jazzsinging, learning about interpretation, improvisation, arrangement and composition. She would give her first real concerts. By chance she auditioned for a girlband. The first single of the group c-bra/ EMI, produced by David Bronner appeared in 1998, called Make up your mind. When they did make it up, they brought out the album Mind your make up in 1999. Advice she still follows. The band split up in 2000. What remained ? A small aftertaste of clichés and ...