'Métisse' means mixture, and that is what their sound is, a mixture of Aida and Skully.

Aida was born in the beautiful Ivory Coast.  Singing and dancing was so much a part of her rich African tradition and every activity was dressed with a ritual within the living of everyday life.  In here teens, Aida moved between the Ivory Coast and Grenoble in France, then entered University in Toulouse.  She also got into dance focused on traditional dancing from West Africa, modern jazz dance and salsa and began to make a good living as a professional dance performer.  Two years later came the return to singing, and the cabaret market offered the opportunity to travel through France.

Skully was born in Ireland.  His father was a showband man performing on the big stage so to Skully music was the family way of life.  The Showband scene was not for the new generation so Skully followed the electronic path, partnering with many colleagues over the years to deliver their latest brew.  His band “Chapterhouse” reached the top of the ladder in terms of success picking up all the highest awards in Ireland.  But this was not enough, and in frustration he took a seven-year retreat from the music business he so dearly loved.He moved to Toulouse, France where he became a teacher of the English language and that is when he met an extraordinary voice singing at a Cabaret in Toulouse.

...a mixture of true Celtic electronic wizardry and the beauty of all that is African.  There and then they decided to work together and called themselves Métisse...meaning mixture...mixture of black and white, of African and European, of electronic and soul.

They have forged their own road and stayed true to their sound and with that success they had Madonna pick a Métisse song as title track to her movie “The Next Best Thing”.  Then came a list of successive licenses for high profile advertising campaigns, chart success, TV shows, the Olympic Games etc etc.  Métisse themselves took on licensing their first album “My Fault” territory by territory around the world...an ambitious undertaking but again one which worked out very well.