Vaimalama Chaves (born 3 December 1994) is a French singer, beauty pageant titleholder, and model who was crowned Miss France 2019. Chaves had previously won Miss Tahiti 2018 and became the fourth representative from French Polynesia to win the Miss France title.
During her reign as Miss France, Chaves began a music career under the mononym Vaimalama, releasing her debut single "Jardin d'hiver" in November 2019. Her debut studio album Good Vaïbes was released in February 2020. She released a cover of the song "Jardin d'hiver", written by Benjamin Biolay and Keren Ann and originally performed by Henri Salvador. An official music video for the cover was released via Chaves's YouTube channel on 13 November. Her debut studio album Good Vaïbes was originally set for release in February 2020, but after several postponements, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the album was released in December 2020. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.