Hélène Ségara
Hélène Segara ( born February 26, 1971 in Six -Fours- les- Plages, Provence -Alpes- Côte d' Azur, France as Hélène Rizzo ) is a French singer.
Biography
Segaras father is Italian and her mother Armenian. Her parents divorced when Hélène was eight years old, since then she lived with her sister Magali with her mother. At age 11, she won a singing competition in which she sang the song " L' amour en héritage " by Nana Mouskouri. At 15, she left school and started singing in various bars on the Côte d' Azur. In 1993 came out their first single " Loin ", but had little success.
After several attempts with different music labels she met producer Orlando and signed a contract with the label East West. Hélène's first single on that label, " Je vous aime adieu ", was released in June 1996 and made it into the French charts. However, only one and a half years later she made a breakthrough. Together with the Italian singer Andrea Bocelli she took a French-Italian version of the song "Vivo per lei ", which became a number 1 hit in France. Beginning of 1998, then appeared also their debut album " Coeur de verre ", which then peaked at # 6 on the album charts and stayed for over a year in the charts. Your next solo single was called " Loin du froid de décembre " and came from the soundtrack of the movie Anastasia.
In 1998, she played the role of Esméralda in the Paris original cast of the musical Notre Dame de Paris. However, after appearing in 1999, she lost her voice and had to undergo surgery. But in November of the same year she had her first solo number - one single with "Il ya trop de gens qui t'aiment ". The subsequent album " Au nom d'une femme" Although narrowly failed to square one, but it was over two years in the charts and was awarded with a diamond. In Switzerland, Hélène Segara became acquainted with this album. There it reached the Top 10 and brought it on chart 59 weeks. The most known songs of this album are "Elle, tu l' aimes ", " Tu vas me quitter ", both Top 10 hits in France, and " Parlez -moi de nous".
End of 2001, the live album " En Concert ", recorded appeared in the Paris Olympia. In 2002 she took a Spanish version of the album " Au nom d'une femme " on. And in 2003, finally came out the album " Humaine ", which continued the previous successes. In France, it came in at number one in Switzerland in 5th place and with " L' amour est un soleil " and " Encore une fois " it contained two songs with which she was successful this time in the Swiss single charts. But was most successful duet with Laura Pausini, "On jamais rien n'oublie, on vit avec ", which was her biggest hit so far in Switzerland with space 3.
On 30 August 2003 she married Mathieu Lecat and moved to France with him. From the relationship had three children; Raphael, Mattéo and Maya.
In November 2004 came out Segaras first Best Of, on which were 15 of their hits plus three new songs.
After a small break appeared on 18 September 2006 the new album " Quand l' éternité ...", which went straight to number 1 of the French charts. The first single is called " Méfie -toi de moi " and sounds much harder than their previous recordings. The current single from the album is "Rien n'est comme avant ".
Segara regularly participates in the annual charity concert of Les Enfoirés, some of the biggest media event in the French-speaking world.