Julien Doré

Julien Doré born 7 July 1982 is a French singersongwriter musician and actor He is the winner of the fifth season of the television show Nouvelle Star aired on the French Television M6 channel He is also the greatgreatgrandson of Gustave Doré a wellknown illustrator of the 19th century Doré was born in Alès Gard Occitanie and grew up in Lunel After taking his baccalauréat littéraire at the college Louis Feuillade he attended the École des BeauxArts of Nîmes for five years He is the founder of the band Dig up Elvis In 2006 he created with Guillaume de Molina the project The Jean dOrmesson disco suicide protean group which covered pop and disco hits In June 2007 Doré was voted number one in French Elle Magazines 15 Sexiest Men poll He dated Louise Bourgoin but the two separated in March 2009 In 2007 Doré was selected at the casting session in Marseille for the fifth season of the music competition Nouvelle Star where he presented himself with a ukulele At the beginning he only participated in the casting to get free publicity for his band He convinced the jury when he sang A la faveur de lautomne originally by Tété His most memorable performances and revelations were while singing Moi Lolita Alizée and Baby One More Time Britney Spears dance music songs in acoustics He won the finale against Tigane Doré has had a successful musical career after winning Nouvelle Star with three studio albums Ersatz 2008 Bichon 2011 and Løve 2013 all reaching top four on the official French Albums Chart He has also gained chart success in Belgium and Switzerland In 2009 he recorded a duet with Cœur de Pirate of her song Pour un infidèle A video was released to promote the song showing the two as a 1960sera celebrity couple Also in 2009 Doré recorded the song Helsinki with French singer Mélanie Pain Doré also collaborated with French chanteuse Sylvie Vartan on her 2010 album release Soleil bleu He was a guest coach for candidates Quentin Bruno and Law on Season 4 of The Voice la plus belle voix the French version of the reality television singing competition The Voice Source Article Julien Doré from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30