The woman behind the song.
Raised across France, Brazil and the United States, Lola Delon was steeped in music and art before she had words for either. Music became an all-consuming passion and she threw herself headlong into the worlds of Otis, Joni, Aretha, Jimi, The Clark Sisters, Faith Evans, Cream, Duke, A Tribe Called Quest, the Ohio Players, the Geto Boys and whatever cool pop was on the radio. Her voice followed suit — surfing across soul, rock, gospel and experimental pop with the ease of someone who never learned she was supposed to stay in one lane.
After high school in France, Lola made her way to New York and onto the stages of Café Wha?, Arlene's Grocery, Baby Jupiter, Joe's Pub and The Bitter End — those legendary West Village and Lower East Side rooms where real artists go to be found. She was. Spotted and signed by Jeff Robinson — the manager who also discovered H.E.R — she went on to open for Alicia Keys herself, for Rihanna in Miami, and performed for 20,000 people at Jones Beach. She sang at the Olympia in Paris and at Jazz à Vienne, one of Europe's most storied festivals. Along the way she became part of the French Touch scene, appearing twice on Mr. Oizo's albums under the name Carmen Castro — a chapter that placed her inside one of the most culturally significant musical movements of a generation.
Her collaborations read like a map of modern music's most interesting corners: co-writing with Toby Gad, the songwriter behind Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy" and John Legend's "All of Me." Working as a songwriter for SM Entertainment, the Korean pop powerhouse. Recording with Scott Storch. Writing with Dennis Hamm, keyboardist for Thundercat. Opening for the incomparable Alice Smith. Studying voice with Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices and collaborating with the legendary Avishai Cohen. In 2011, Lola won a national Virgin singing competition in France — and released her album "Everybody Relax, We're All Gonna Die," a title that tells you everything you need to know about her as an artist.
Her work extends beyond music. She co-wrote the short film "Black Holes," selected at Sundance in 2017, which became the proof of concept for a television show she pitched to every major network and streaming platform in America. Netflix called it the best pitch they'd ever seen. TBS wanted it. FX signed it. In those rooms — high stakes, no safety net — Lola discovered what she now teaches: that full presence, fearless self-expression and the freedom to take up space aren't reserved for the naturally confident. They're learnable. And they change everything — on stage, in a boardroom, in any moment that matters. That discovery changed everything.
A serious student of the craft of performance and the psychology beneath it — trained at The Barrow Group, in Meisner technique with Iris Klein, in improv at UCB, and shaped by years of therapy, Core Energetics and every personal development modality she could find — Lola spent decades accumulating not just a career but a map. A map of the journey from constriction to full artistic freedom. From performing to get to performing to give. From the singer who needs approval to the singer whose love for the craft makes the whole room free. That map is now a course. And a movement. And a life's work.
Lola Delon is a liberation coach, thought leader, singer, songwriter, actress and the creator of The Song Only You Can Sing — a philosophy, a practice and an invitation to every artist who has ever dimmed their light or muzzled their song — and is ready to reclaim what was always theirs: a voice, a story, a song that only they can sing.
She currently lives in a hamlet in Burgundy, France, surrounded by barn animals, three cats, and a love story she is grateful for every single day. We all have a song only we can sing.
Lola's life work is helping you find yours.