Irma (singer)

Irma Pany (born 15 July 1988), better known as Irma (), is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter living in France. Early life and education She was born in Douala in a family with a scientific background. Her father is a biologist and her mother is a pharmacist. As a child Irma was performing at masses too. At age 15, she went to a high school in Paris, France, to improve her school education. In 2008, Irma entered ESCP Europe (Top French Business School) and graduated in the Master in Management in 2012. Career By 2007, she had posted her first videos on YouTube. Those included her own compositions, including “Letter to the Lord” and a piano piece “Somehow”, as well as cover versions of songs including “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5, “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat, and “New Soul” by Yael Naim. She released several home-made videos with acoustic covers on YouTube in collaboration with French and international musicians, including Tété (“Hey Ya!”), Matthieu Chédid (“Rolling in the Deep”), Gad Elmaleh (“Isn’t She Lovely?”), Tom Dice (“Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution”) from Belgium and Patrice (“The Times They Are a-Changin’”) from Germany. Together with will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, she p