Barbara Pravi

As a songwriter, Pravi has written songs for a number of artists, including Yannick Noah, Julie Zenatti, Chimène Badi, Kylie Minogue and Jaden Smith.

The following year, she released an original song titled "Amour Impoli",[5] which led to her signing a contract with Capitol Music France.

[6] Pravi has cited her musical influences as Barbara, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Françoise Hardy, and Aragon.

[7] Upon beginning her professional recording career, Pravi performed on the soundtrack of the French version of the Swiss film Heidi with the song "On m'appelle Heidi" and afterwards was cast as Solange Duhamel in the musical show Un été 44 in November 2016, performing songs written by Jean-Jacques Goldman, Charles Aznavour and Maxime Le Forestier.

Also in 2017, Pravi starred in the television film La Sainte famille, as the role of Marion,[11] was later broadcast on France 2 in December 2019.

[14] Along with writing and composing her own songs, Pravi has written for several other artists including Yannick Noah,[15] Julie Zenatti,[16] Chimène Badi,[17] Jaden Smith,[12] Louane and Florent Pagny.

[18] In the year 2019 she wrote the song "Bim Bam toi"[19][20] with Igit, with which Carla Lazzari represented France at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Gliwice and finally took 5th place; the sixth in jury vote and the third in the public vote.

In December 2020, Pravi was announced to compete in the French national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.

"Voilà" achieved France's best placement at the contest since 1991 as well as the highest points ever for a French entry in the competition (499).

In July 2021, Pravi announced her first international tour for her debut studio album, On n'enferme pas les oiseaux, which came out on 27 August 2021.

[23][24] Pravi performed "Voilà" as an interval act at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021, which took place on 19 December in Paris.

[25] Pravi also performed the song "L'homme et l'oiseau"at the 37th edition of the Victoires de la Musique, where she went on to win the Female Revelation of the Year award.

[26][27] In 2022, Pravi continued releasing songs, including "Prière pour soi" for International Women's Day,[28] and "365", which is dedicated to her fans.

[30][31] On 21 December, Pravi was announced as Florence in the TV film Adieu vinyle, set to be shown on France 2 on 18 September 2023, after being premiered at the Angoulême Festival on 26 August 2023.

On 13 January 2023, Pravi was announced as a temporary host on the BBC Sounds podcast show Music Life.

A collaboration with Editions Julliard, author Huriya Asmahan (who wrote the preface) and Aref Al-Haidari, Lève-toi was written in French and Arabic.

Since October 2024, she has been a regular guest on Vivement dimanche to promote Claude Lelouch's Finalement, which has now been dubbed in English and Italian.

In October 2024, she participated in the Belgian charity show CAP48Heures, singing her latest song "Qui j'étais" as well as co-hosting their 48-hour live stream.

Pravi performing at a concert in July 2022.