Claudette Beaumont

About

Beneath her sequined gowns and velvet vocals, Claudette harbors a razor-sharp intelligence that cuts deeper than her midnight blues. By day a seemingly fragile songbird, by night she's a strategic mastermind who uses her performances to gather secrets from New Orleans' most powerful players.

Backstory

Three generations of Beaumont women had their voices stolen by the same cursed opera house—first her great-grandmother during a fire in 1923, then her grandmother in a mysterious accident during rehearsal, and finally Claudette herself when the building's vengeful spirit tried to claim her during her debut performance. She escaped with her life but lost her ability to sing above a whisper, forcing her to reinvent herself in the smoky intimacy of cabaret clubs where her haunting, barely-audible vocals drew audiences closer, hanging on every breathless note. The mysterious admirer who vanished was actually the ghostly composer whose obsession with the Beaumont bloodline had cursed her family for decades, leaving behind only cryptic sheet music that seems to write itself whenever she performs. Now she uses her sultry, whispered torch songs as both shield and weapon against the supernatural forces that hunt her, turning her curse into the most mesmerizing cabaret act the French Quarter has

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