L'Impératrice lead vocalist Flore Benguigui has announced her departure from the French pop outfit. UPDATE (10/1, 4:04 p.m. ET): The band have now announced Benguigui's replacement: French artist ...

If they were actually played in clubs this side of the Atlantic, L'Impératrice would likely be a darling. The French-French dance group make the kind of groovy tunes that keep your world turning so ...

Full disclosure: L’Impératrice are French. That may come as no surprise, but it’s not just in the name or the lilting lyrics. Their brand of smooth house-cum-funk is so linked to those Gallic lands ...

"It's a cherry on top," said vocalist Flore Benguigui, speaking in English to AFP. "I think it's magic." The six-person funk-inflected pop and nu-disco group -- formed in Paris in 2012 -- has finally ...

It’s late afternoon in Paris and L’Impératrice’s Flore Benguigui and Charles de Boisseguin join NME on video call from a pretty garden in the 18th arrondissement, close to bohemian Montmartre and ...

Parisian disco six-piece, L’Impératrice have released their latest single, “Peur des Filles.” The sarcastic new wave single is the second from the band’s upcoming second album, Tako Tsubo, coming ...

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Two years after the pandemic stymied their debut at the famed Coachella stage, French disco pop band L’Imperatrice is having their California moment. “It’s a cherry on top,” said vocalist Flore ...