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•      Ariane Mamon was born in Paris on August 2nd, 1993, the daughter of a Franco-American father, astrophysicist, and a French mother, management controller.

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•      Since she was very young, her father would always put music on in the living room, and so Ariane grew up listening to classical music and pop rock from the 70s, and started developing a musical ear since the very beginning. At age 2 she started inventing her own songs, and at the age of 5, she started taking violin lessons. She then switched to classical piano at age 6 and played it for 10 years. Ariane started taking voice lessons at age 13.  At 15, she started listening to rock bands like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin or Yes and started an AC/DC cover band in her sophomore year of high school in Culham (UK).

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•      At 16, while attending a jazz festival one summer at Barcelonnette (France), she discovered jazz and felt that it was the right thing for her to do. She then started to take vocal jazz lessons and listened to anything that was "jazz" that she could find around her. She also started reading about jazz history and learned all the names she could learn and listened to as many recordings as possible. She came back to that jazz festival the following year having considerably grown as a musician and had then the opportunity to sing for Al Jarreau during a radio show, as well as for his master class. She also opened for Liz McComb with the festival's student big band, which was the first concert of the season.

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•      After graduating with honors from an international high school in St Germain-en-Laye in France, she was accepted at Berklee College of Music, where she is still studying today vocal jazz performance and minoring in jazz harmony. Ariane discovered there a hidden love for composing and arranging which she keeps constantly exploring, listening to a lot of Pat Metheny whom she claims is probably her biggest influence, but also McCoy Tyner, Avishai Cohen, Lionel Loueke, Gretchen Parlato, and many others.

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•      At the end of her sophomore year, a few of her teachers already asked her to collaborate with them.

•     She is now a junior at Berklee College of Music and is going to graduate in May 2015.