Jenifer

Jenifer Yaël Juliette DadoucheBartoli born 15 November 1982 known by the mononym Jenifer is a French singer and actress Since winning the first season of Star Academy France in 2002 she has had a number of hit singles on the French Belgian and Swiss charts Jenifer Bartoli was raised with her younger brother Jonathan by her mother and father Michel Dadouche and Christine Bartoli Her mother is part CorsicanItalian and part Belgian her father is a Jewish Algerian She comes from a modest background She participated in the Graines de star television broadcast in 1997 but this was a failure Jenifer decided to go to Paris and attend the casting for the first series of Star Academy France which went on to become a huge hit on French television She was selected and eventually won The hit single Jattends lamour Im waiting for love soon followed After the tour with her band that followed her victory she toured as a solo artist from October 2002 until January 2003 and eventually performed at the Paris Olympia which she had dreamed of as a child Her debut selftitled album went on to sell over threequarters of a million copies The album featured a song written by Marc Lavoine and a duet with fellow Star Academy student Mario The second single Au Soleil became one of the tubes de lété Summer hits of 2002 in France The album was rereleased later to include two new tracks Entre Humains and Des Mots Qui Résonnent The latter became her third top ten single in France and Jenifer stated that it was more her style of music being more poprock Finally a fourth song the ballad Donne Moi Le Temps was released The rereleased album sold over a million copies In 2004 Jenifer returned onto the scene with her second more personal melancholy album Le Passage Among others this album contained songs written by Calogero Kyo Tina Arena and one song Jenifer cowrote This album contains the singles Ma Révolution My Revolution Le Souvenir De Ce Jour The Memory of This Day Cest De LOr Its Golden and Serre Moi Hold me The album was supported by an extensive tour across France and was followed by the release of a live album Jenifer Fait Son Live and an accompanying DVD She has stated that she also wants to produce music in English outside France In November 2010 Jenifer released her fourth studio album called Appellemoi Jen Call Me Jen which charted at number 13 in France Its a poprockelectronical album which has a 1980s French song lookalike The first single of the album Je danseI Dance was released in September 2010 This song was a hit in France and also in Belgium rising to the 3rd position in the charts In 2012 she is a The Voices coach with Florent Pagny Garou and Mika for TF1 In 2002 Jenifer met French musician and songwriter Maxim Nucci in studio when she was working on her debut album and they started dating soon after On 5 December 2003 she gave birth to their son Aaron at only 21 However they called it quits in February 2008 after almost six years of dating Source Article Jenifer singer from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30