PaviElle’s unique blend of influences, styles, and experiences lends itself to a courageous and diverse body of work, spanning music, art, storytelling, and theater.
Experience Jazz with PaviElle French (2025)
SOVEREIGN: ALIGNED (2025)
SOVEREIGN: ALIGNED The MixTape (2025), is the project that PaviElle French created while in-residence at her Fellowship at the NEF House located at the MacDowell Residency. She wrote, and recorded this over four weeks in December 2024, and is choosing to release this album in its most purest and rawest state, as the original recordings from her solo time in the NEF house. These songs were steeped in improvisation and PaviElle is calling this ‘experimental soul.’ he says that she is freestyling as a vocalist because a lot of verses, melodies, and harmony stacking were created on the spot. The demo tracks were also created by PaviElle on GarageBand, as what she deems a freestyle. She builds beats starting with the bass then layers with the drums by hand, then layers with pianos ect., no loops. However long the song is, is the amount of time she freestyled/built the beat.
PaviElle says that she made the choice to release these tracks as the demos because she feels the intensity, openness, and heart that she laid down in her original vocals, and production cannot be duplicated in the studio. She says that this is her grown woman album, and is a nod to her favorite childhood singers. It was an exploration of her own voice as she had the space and time to record intentionally, alone. As this time was transformative for her, spiritually, emotionally, and physically, she feels this was a channeled love letter to herself, and wishes to release it unadulterated, as a love offering to the people. Its about desiring love, heartbreak, grief, change…all the things we as humanity face and work to move on and heal from.
Written, Produced, Mixed, and Performed by PaviElle French
©2025 Doll DeLuca Publishing
Embracing Our Roots with Dr. Yolanda Williams and PaviElle French (Discussion on Black Music, UofM) (2024)
Rights (from SOVEREIGN)- Tiny Desk Submission (2023)
SANDS OF TIME (2022)
In 2020, PaviElle was commissioned to write another symphony by community art supporters Bill and Susan Sands, in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. Sands of Time was premiered in June 2022 at the Ordway Center in Saint Paul, MN. PaviElle composed, wrote, orchestrated, and arranged Sands of Time on GarageBand, and Michi Wiancko transcribed the piece. It took 8 months to complete.
SOVEREIGN (2021)
In 2020, Mr. George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, where PaviElle is a resident. Prompted by the racial unrest in her hometown, and with the pandemic taking place, PaviElle started documenting what she and her community were going through. After being honored with a McKnight fellowship, PaviElle began writing and producing SOVEREIGN on the Maschine, using midi.
SOVEREIGN discusses the turmoil that PaviElle herself was going through at that time of unrest, and the introspective questions she asked herself regarding liberation and freedom for self and for Black, Indigenous, and POC folks. Regarding her truth. Regarding the aftermath of what’s happening in Minnesota, and how so many of us are hurting behind the continuous trauma happening here. With the uptick of State sanctioned violence toward black and POC and the killings of Mr. George Floyd, Mr. Daunte Wright, in Minnesota, (where PaviElle resides) and Ms. Breonna Taylor. In SOVEREIGN, PaviElle speaks about the culture of white supremacy in America, and the country’s history of improper policing and abuse of power toward people in poverty.
CODE SWITCH
SELF CARE
ANCESTORS SAID IT
The Gift with The Minnesota Orchestra (from Joyful Echoes) (2021)
Robert O. Berdahl*
PaviElle French
Kevin Kling*
Thomasina Petrus*
T. Mychael Rambo*
Peter Rothstein, stage director and concept**
PaviElle French, writer and composer (“The Gift”)
Kevin Kling, writer
Robert Elhai, composer and arranger
Peter Ostroushko, composer (“Heart of the Heartland”)
PaviElle – Me Being Me (Live at Twin Lakes Studio 2018)
PaviElle – Runnin’ (Live at The Current, 2017)
“People say that one person can’t change the world and I just don’t believe that, because we’ve seen it time and time before. And so when you are yourself, it is revolutionary because it’s saying, ‘I stand to be who I am as opposed to what I’ve been conditioned and you told me to be.’” Full Session Here!!
Enjoy this special Street Show Gem performance by PaviElle! Street Show–produced by Mpls Downtown Improvement District in collaboration with Hennepin Theatre Trust and curated by The Warming House–brings you a very special performance on Friday, November 6 featuring PaviElle at Jolliet House at the IDS Center Crystal Court. Since 2017, Street Show has brought more than 1,000 hours of paid street performances to downtown Minneapolis on Nicollet and Hennepin. PaviElle selected to support Kulture Klub Collaborative during this performance, and the band encourages you to donate toward Kulture Klub’s program. The first $1,000 contribution is being donated by the Mpls DID. To donate, visit http://www.kultureklub.org/. The views expressed here are of the performer and may not reflect the views of Mpls DID, mpls downtown council or other program partners.
FEAR NOT (2014)
2014’s Fear Not marked PaviElle’s return to recording after a five-year hiatus. Independently recorded and produced, the album represents a slice of PaviElle’s life experiences, good and bad. In Fear Not, PaviElle succeeds in combining the feel of Black soul music with her own unique voice and musical style.
RUNNIN’