During her studies she spent more than a year as an exchange student at FEA-USP in São Paulo, Brazil where she learned Portuguese.

[6] In 2012, Alma started her music career by publishing one of her first compositions, "Gone", dedicated to the memory of a close friend from her elementary school Collège de Marcq who had died in a traffic accident 2009.

[8] Alma gave her first public performances on 13 May and 3 June 2012 at Rooster's Bar in Brussels accompanied by the guitarist Alain Goossens with a mix of both covers and her own compositions.

[9] Their covers of Lana del Rey's "Video Games", Tears for Fears’ "Mad World" and Nadeah's "Odile" were recorded at Avalon Studios in Brussels and posted on YouTube and her newly started official Facebook page.

She also started to use the artist name Alma and Vigie Discographique made a video interview and recorded four songs "Libido", "Mr Unsatisfaction", "Sitting down" and "What do you want from me" in the Pixel Room Studio, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, that were published on YouTube.

[16][17] Edoardo Grassi,[18] who at the time worked for Carson Productions, invited her to join the weekly television show Les Chansons d'abord on France 3 hosted by Natasha St-Pier, where she participated regularly from 1 December 2013 to 15 June 2014.

In December 2013 a successful crowd funding project at Kissbankers was started to record the duet "Trinquons" together with Benjamin Ollive at Studio Davout[19] and the single was released 26 February 2014.

She met the composer and singer Nazim Khaled, on the show Les Chansons d'abord in early 2014, and they decided to start a musical collaboration.

During 2015 and 2016 her collaboration with Nazim Khaled continued, leading to the single "La chute est lente", released on 10 June 2016,[21] and the song "Ivre".

[27] A music video for the song was released to Alma's official YouTube channel on the same day and was directed by Jonas Bonnabeau.