Jordy

Jordy Lemoine ( born January 14, 1988 in Saint- Germain -en- Laye ) is a French musician and former child star, who with the song Dur dur d' être bébé! was known.

Life

Jordy's father is Clause Lemoine, who is known in his home mainly as a producer of the French glam rock band The Rockets. His mother Patricia Clerget was a singer who released two albums in the early 1980s. Soon it became even Jordy musical talent and sang in the songs were on the radio what made ​​him soon at the parties his parents to the popular phenomenon. Hence the idea of his parents, to make Jordy a commercial recording musicians emerged.

Published in 1992, Columbia Records, the first single of the then four and a half year old Jordy, the Dance Song Dur Dur D' être Bébé! ( dt It is hard to be a baby ), which should become a worldwide hit with chart success, including Australia and the United States. The single sold over two million copies and stayed for 15 weeks at number one in the French singles charts what Jordy also earned an entry as the youngest singer with a # 1 singles chart placement in the Guinness Book of World Records.

In the next two years Jordy published several more singles and two albums, one of them most with Christmas carols. 1994, the French government banned the now six -year-old Jordy However, from radio and television, as increasing fears had occurred, that the child would be exploited by his parents. These fears were amplified again, as his parents put their revenue from Jordy's publications in a farm called La Ferme de Jordy ( Jordy's Farm dt ), a children's tourist attraction, but a financial failure was. 1996 had to close his farm, his parents got divorced shortly thereafter. Jordy was later declared early for an adult.

2005 Jordy returned to the spotlight. He participated in the second season of French reality TV show La Ferme des Célébrités, which he left as a winner. On 2 February 2006, jointly written by him with his mother Je ne suis plus book appeared un bébé (Eng. I'm not a baby more ), in which he talks about his experiences in show business and his father criticized. On 28 February 2006, he published The t'apprendrai with his first single for twelve years.

Meanwhile Jordy is active in the punk rock band Jordy and the Dixies.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Works

• Jordy Lemoine, Patrica Clerget: Je ne suis plus un bébé. Scali, 2006, ISBN 2-35012-038-4