Elsa Lunghini

Elsa Lunghini stage name Elsa born 20 May 1973 is a French singer and actress She was a teenage popstar in the late1980s In 1986 she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts with the single Ten va pas and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade Elsa her album of 1988 had achieved doubleplatinum status by 1993 Daughter of George Lunghini actor photographer and songwriter and Christiane Jobert painter and also sister of actress Marlène Jobert and Charles Jobert a camera operator and director of photography she is of Italian origin on her fathers side and of Sephardic Jewish origin on her mothers side She is a cousin of actresses Eva Green and Josephine Jobert Lunghini first performed in a movie at age seven in 1981 in Claude Millers Garde à vue also starring Romy Schneider She was the youngest artist to be in the main program at the Olympia Paris at 17 in October 1990 as well as the youngest to have a number 1 hit in the Top 50 in France At 13 in 1986 she remained number 1 for eight weeks with Ten va pas soundtrack of the movie La Femme de ma vie The song was composed by the Italian Romano Musumarra who had worked and helped produce hits for 1980s singer Jeanne Mas The song was a hit in France and sold elsewhere in Europe with an English recording With the help of her musician father she recorded her LP Elsa It sold more than 600000 copies with hit singles such as Quelque chose dans mon cœur Something in my heart Jour de neige Snowing day Jamais nous with backing vocals by French singer Laurent Voulzy Never us Un Roman damitié duet with Glenn Medeiros Friend you give me a Reason À la même heure dans deux ans At the same time in two years All were top 10 hits At that time Lunghini was the only artist to have her first four singles at number one or two She became popular in the teen press often compared with Vanessa Paradis In 1990 she made her second album Rien que pour ça Only for that The songs were produced by her father and Elsa wrote the music for the single of the same name Rien que pour ça was a top 20 hit Two other excerpts were released Pleure doucement Cry softly and Questce que ça peut lui faire How does she matter The two last singles were less successful She made her first tour at the Olympia In 1992 Lunghini recorded Bousculemoi Push me on a midrock single with more adult lyrics Bousculemoi was a hit single Her third album was Douce violence Sweet violence Two more singles promoted it but they failed to become hits In 1996 aged 23 she wrote and composed her fourth album Chaque jour est un long chemin Every day is a long way It sold 20000 From 20 to 24 September 2004 she gave shows in Paris at the Européen A live DVD and a live CD went on sale in 2006 Lunghini takes part annually in the Tour of the Resto du Coeur soupkitchen charity and helps causes such as Sol En Si She has starred in two TV movies 2002s La mort est rousse and 2004s Trois jours en juin and is involved in a television advertising campaign for Danone yoghurt Source Article Elsa Lunghini from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30