Tèr laba…elsewhere. The one where we come from, the one who sculpts us, the one to whom we also always return. I wanted to sing elsewhere. Mine, Reunion.

Between compositions and covers, I like to discover and rediscover my birthplace. My island. Through well-known songs, but also original compositions that tell intimate stories.

Elsewhere, I also looked for it among the musicians coming from all backgrounds who participated in the recording of this first album. Characters anchored in their culture and eager to serve delicate, touching, dancing, falsely naive music. It is therefore the freedom to be oneself which is defended in Tèr laba, the right to be multiple, the right to to be from here, and from elsewhere. » Valérie Chane Tef

This is "their sound": the one that the three accomplices of Ter Laba have been refining for a decade, taking us enthusiastically into Creole ballads that make up their identity and their contagious joie de vivre. With their voices leading the way, they sing Reunionese, Guadeloupean, Martiniquean, or invented languages. It is a living tradition that the group reinvents and transmits to us with its jazz signature: beating hearts, dancing bodies, and present emotions.

Pianist-composer from Reunion Island, Valérie Chane Tef started playing classical piano at the age of seven.It is through jazz and Creole music that she develops her career. Inspired by many artists such as Omar Sosa, Alain Jean-Marie, Tânia Maria, Danyèl Waro, Valérie stands out by composing "optimistic" and catchy melodies telling us stories, her story without necessarily putting words to it. We find in her universe all the influences she is nourished with, coupled with a rich cultural heritage.