Alizée
Alizée Jacotey ( born August 21, 1984 in Ajaccio ) is a French singer.
- 3.1 albums
- 3.2 Singles
- 3.3 Compilations
Life
Alizée is the daughter of a clerk and a computer scientist, she grew up in the Corsican town of Ajaccio. Your first name derives from Alizé, the French name for the trade wind. She has a younger brother named John.
In 1995, Alizée a painting competition the airline AOM French Airlines. Your drawing was reproduced on the fuselage of an aircraft, which was also baptized on their behalf. In the meantime, however, the machine was repainted and is the current service of the South African airline 1time.
During the recording of TV show Eurobest in March 2003 Alizée, Jérémy Châtelain met, a singer and former participants in the French talent show Star Academy. The two married on November 6, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The couple separated in 2011, the separation was a major influence on Alizée's fifth album 5. Along with their daughter Annily (* 2005) drew Alizée shortly afterwards from Paris back to Ajaccio. She is in a relationship with dancer Grégoire Lyonnet, her former dance partner from the fourth season of the show Danse avec les stars since the end of 2013.
Career
Early on, Alizée interested in dancing, singing and acting. At the age of four, she took classical and Spanish dance lessons and classes in jazz dance and tap dancing. A year later she joined the renowned dance and drama school École du Spectacle de Monique Mufraggi, where she also gained her first stage experience in ten years of education.
Her musical success began in 1999: Alizée participated in an audition for the French talent show Graines de star of the television station M6 part. She wanted to take the opportunity to become a professional dancer, but it was taken for the voice category. In the broadcast, aired on 25 February 2000, she then joined with the title Ma Prière on the popular French singer Axelle Red and won. Following the rules of the program, she joined in the next issue once more, again with Ma Prière. Again, she won a third appearance but did not get it.
2000-2002: Gourmandises
Encouraged by the success of Alizée again took part in a casting, this time in Paris. The host of this Castings were Mylène Farmer, French singer, and Laurent Boutonnat, French producer. Farmer had just the song Moi ... Lolita, inspired by the novel " Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov wrote, and sought to fit the song young singer. You did a screen test with Alizée and were convinced of her talent.
In July 2000, Moi Lolita ... was published in France, immediately reached # 2 on the charts and sold a total of nearly 1.5 million copies to date. Never before had there been a single that could hold 73 weeks in the charts. Even beyond the borders of France, the song was successful, for example, is still the most successful non-English single in the UK. Published in Germany in September 2001, Moi ... Lolita climbed up there at number 5
The second single L' Alizé was a hit with 500,000 units sold also. At the same time, Alizée released her first album Gourmandises. The album reached double platinum status in France. She sold more than four million singles in Europe and was honored at the World Music Awards 2002 as the most successful French artist.
2003-2007: Mes courants électriques
Also for 2003, released her second album Mes courants électriques recorded again Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat responsible. While it failed to match the great success of its predecessor, but still sold over 400,000 copies in France and reached there Chart 2nd place for the international edition of the album Alizée has added the English versions of four songs.
From August 2003 to January 2004 Alizée was on a concert tour in France. During this tour the live CD and DVD Alizée en concert, which appeared in October 2004, was born. For their promotion of a video clip of the song Amélie m'a dit was published in France, which contained excerpts from the DVD.
2007 Mexico was aware of Alizée. After some of her songs have already been played in the Mexican radio stations, appeared there in February 2007 Alizée en concert as a CD DVD edition, climbed to number 8 in the album charts and reached gold status ( 50,000 albums sold ).
2007-2009: Psychédélices
For the third album Psychédélices, which was released on 3 December 2007, Alizée had stopped working with Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. Instead, the album by Jérémy Châtelain husband was produced, also have contributed, among others Jean Fauque, Oxmo Puccino and Daniel Darc. The first single Mademoiselle Juliette appeared in France on 30 September 2007 - initially as a download; the CD version followed on 21 January 2008. A second single release Fifty -Sixty has been published. On 8 February 2008 Psychédélices also appeared in Germany.
In France and Europe, Alizée was unable to repeat their earlier successes with the album, while she continued her success in Mexico. Both Psychédélices as well as the published only there compilation Tout Alizée achieved good chart positions. For published on June 25, 2008 " Mexican Tour Edition " of Psychédélices Alizée produced a cover of Madonna's La Isla Bonita.
18 May 2008 Alizée started her Psychédélices tour with a concert in Moscow. In June some concerts followed in Mexico. The originally scheduled for October 23, 2008 concert at Le Grand Rex in Paris has been moved back only to March 2009, and eventually canceled altogether.
2010-2012: Une enfant du siècle
Alizée's fourth studio album Une enfant du siècle appeared on March 29, 2010 After Alizée already came remixes of Single Fifty -Sixty with the electric label Institubes in contact, has now produced Une enfant du siècle by artists of the label -. Especially from label Chef Jean -René Etienne and the group Chateau Marmont. And also as I Fifty -Sixty, the album's songs are based on the life of the model Edie Sedgwick. The first single from Les collines ( Never Leave You ) was released in France on March 8, 2010 as a download. In Germany, their album was released on April 2, 2010.
Together with Alain Chamfort Alizée took the duet Clara veut la lune on. Wrote The re-recording of the song, the original Chamfort for his album Neuf (1993 ), on his album Elles & Lui (2012 ) was published.
2012-2013: 5
Alizée's fifth studio album - 5 (French for " Cinq " [ sɛk ] ) - was first announced by her for October 2012, involved should include Jean -Jacques Goldman, Thomas Boulard ( singer and guitarist of the group Luke ) and the BB Brunes be. On June 27, 2012 Alizée published on its website the first single à cause de l' automne. The song was originally written as Never Again on British Pete Russell, Thomas Boulard then wrote the French text.
The release of the album, however, was postponed several times until it finally appeared in France on 25 March 2013. It was produced by Alexandre Azaria, more concerts feature Thomas Boulard Adrien Gallo ( singer of BB Brunes ), Antoine " Bartone " Barra Iller and Christian Vié.
Together with Olly Murs Alizée took a produced for the French market version of Murs ' single Dear Darlin ', which was released on September 2, 2013.
Since 2014: Sixth Album
On March 18, 2014, Alizée released as the first single from her sixth studio album, the song blonde. A publication date of the album is not yet clear.
Others
From 2001 to 2002 and again from 2008 to 2013, Alizée took part in the annual charity event Les Enfoirés, specify when French celebrities concerts, the proceeds of which benefit the charity Les Restos du Cœur.
Alizée won the 2013 fourth season of the show Danse avec les stars (the French version of Let 's Dance and Strictly Come Dancing ).
Discography
Albums
Singles
Compilations
- 2007: Tout Alizée - exclusively in Mexico (# 22)
- 2004: Alizée en concert
Awards
- 2000: M6 Music Award ( Best Female French rediscovery )
- 2001: DMX Music Award ( Best not published in the USA song)
- 2001: NRJ Music Award ( Best French rediscovery and best artist website )
- 2002: World Music Award (International 's most successful French artist )
- 2008: Lunas del Auditorio award in Mexico ( Best Foreign Pop )