Eilera

Eilera (born Aurélie Potin Suau) is a French songwriter, guitarist, and producer. She is known for her idiosyncratic musical and vocal style in the rock and metal genres.

Biography
Eilera was born Aurelie Potin Suau in Montpellier, France. She began taking classical guitar lessons at the age of twelve.

History
At the age of seventeen, Eilera began playing electric guitar and experimented with metal music. At the age of nineteen she attempted to form her own metal band, but was unsuccessful in recruiting other players until she entered the metal scene in Montpellier, where she formed a band, Suspiria.

The band's name was later changed to Chrysalis and they released Between Strength and Frailty, a demo distributed by French record label Adipocere Records. Eilera and Chrysalis guitarist Loïc Tézénas worked on a side project called .Bliss', which mixed electronic music with metal music. Chrysalis disbanded in 2003, and Eilera and Tézénas focused on the side project, now known as Eilera. In 2003 they self-released their first album, titled Facettes.

In 2004, the band Eilera signed a recording contract with Finnish label Spinefarm Records. In 2005 they worked with record producer Hiili Hiilesmaa, cellist Max Lilja, and drummer Antti Lehtinen to record their first album for Spinefarm, an EP titled Precious Moment (2005). In 2007, Eilera released her first solo studio album, Fusion, which she had recorded with Hiilesmaa, Lilja, and Lehtinen.

Eilera began working independently after the purchase of Spinefarm by Universal Music Group. and self-released the album Darker Chapter… and stars. After touring France, Eilera ended her collaboration with Tézénas and moved to Finland, where she currently resides.

In Finland, Eilera worked on new collaborations, including one with Pariisin Kevät on a first album, Meteoriitti, which featured French and Finnish songwriting and original compositions by Eilera. She also began collaborating with Celtic harp player Lily Neill. They practised together at Sibelius Academy and re-recorded many of Eilera's earlier songs, as well as the Tori Amos song Winter.

Eilera began recording her next studio album, Face Your Demons (2016), at Finnvox with old friend Tero Kinnunen of Nightwish, but ultimately opted for a more intimate sound and recorded the remainder of the album live in studio. Five official videos were released in support of the album, three of them shot live in studio for the songs Angel Made Temptress, Deadly Together and Your Way. The videos were shot by Eilera's friend Mitja Harvilahti, who collaborated with Chilean visual artist David Letelier for two of the videos for "Face Your Demons" and "Male Female Balance."

In January 2019, Eilera released an acoustic-based album, Waves, with a photograph taken from the Finnvox Studios in Helsinki. She stated on Facebook that Waves was a Franco/Finnish/Chilean collaboration.