Brigitte Zarie was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of Moroccan Jewish parents originally from Casablanca, Morocco.

Her mother was a singer and her father a soldier in the French Foreign Legion and a multi-instrumentalist.

She grew up listening to Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra, and learned to play and sing with her ten siblings.

[3] In 2009, she released her first solo album, Make Room for Me, arranged and co-written by Neil Jason.

"[4] Reviewing her second album L'amour in 2014, critic Christopher Zoukis of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer compared her to Nina Simone.