Clémence Gabrielidis was born between two shores. The daughter of a Greek father and a French mother, she grew up between Seine-Saint-Denis and a Cycladic island, learning from an early age that identity is not a fixed territory but a crossing. It is the voice that speaks first.

In 2007, she began composing and performing under the name Gabri’Elle, taking to the stages of Paris and learning her craft in the urgency of opening acts. At the same time, she embarked on a parallel career in film editing, spending more than a decade alongside some of France’s leading editors, mastering the art of storytelling, rhythm, and the invisible. In 2008, she joined L’Olympe, the last remaining Greek cabaret in Paris, where she spent two years immersed in a vast musical repertoire—rebetika, laïka, nisiotika, and songs from Smyrna, Thrace, and Pontus—traditions steeped in history and memory. In 2012, she created Café Tekkes, a stage production tracing the history of rebetiko, and recorded an EP based on this repertoire with Stin Ipoga. Since 2018, she has been the lead vocalist of Assafir, recording Digressions (2021) and Traversées (2025), while also performing with the Grand Ensemble Filos on Ouranos (2021) and Çiya (Spring 2026). She also appeared in Mutige Frauen, a production by German theatre director Anina Jendreyko, marking her first venture into multilingual theatre. Her voice has also found its way to the screen: it can be heard on the soundtrack of Luc Besson’s Valerian (2017), and she appears on screen in Léa Todorov’s Maria Montessori (La Nouvelle Femme) and Pascal Tessaud’s Dans la Peau.

From one shore to the other, Clémence Gabrielidis sings of all that endures against time and oblivion.