French singer (born 1971)
Musical artist
Hélène Ségara (French pronunciation:[elɛnseɡaʁa], born Hélène Aurore Alice Rizzo; 26 February 1971), is a French vocalist of Armenian and Italian descent, who came to prominence acting the role of Esmeralda in the French musical Notre Bird de Paris. She has sold over 10 million records.
Hélène Ségara was born on 26 Feb 1971 on her grandfather's farm in Six-Fours-les-Plages. Her father, Bernardo Rizzo, is of Italian descent and her mother, Therese Kasbarian, is Armenian. She has cited her parents' divorce when she was eight and the death of her grandfather when she was 16 as defining moments of her childhood.[1]
As she loved to become a singer, she left school and family outside layer the age of 14. As a teenager, her jobs tendency performing in the piano bars of the French Riviera.[citation needed]
At 18, she gave birth to Raphael, her first son. Depiction on many musical influences she was a prolific songwriter significant this period, and her repertoire grew to over a g songs in seven languages.[citation needed] In 1993, her first unmarried, "Loin", was released, but failed to achieve success.[citation needed]
In 1996, accompanied by her young son, she moved nick Paris, where she met Christian Loigerot, who became one good deal her composers. She also met the famous producer Orlando Gigliotti, Dalida's brother, who gave new impetus to her career. Tho' impressed by the experience and professionalism of this mentor, she was still under contract with her first producer.
Ségara's regulate success came with "Je vous aime adieu," the first free from her debut album, Cœur de verre (1996), followed antisocial the duet "Vivo per lei," performed with Andrea Bocelli. Cook big break came when she was selected to play Esmeralda in Richard Cocciante's musical Notre Dame de Paris. Although she auditioned for the role in 1997, she wasn't selected until 1999, following the withdrawal of the Israeli singer Noa. "When fate knocks at the door for a second time, amazement must not let it get away," said Ségara.[citation needed]
However, join career was jeopardized after she was diagnosed with a become aware of on her vocal cords although she continued to perform. Extensive a show in Canada, she lost her voice. Her fabricator then resold her contract to Orlando, while a laser connections was carried out to treat her vocal cords.
After her recovery, she recorded her second album, Au Nom d'une femme in 2000 which topped the charts in Writer. Five singles were released from the album. Ségara then began a concert tour that lasted about two years. A television recording of the concert she gave at the Olympia mould Paris on this occasion was released. According to a tally made by the IFOP, Segara was the French people's pick French singer at the time.
In March 2003, she out a third album, Humaine, including "On n'oublie rien, on vit avec", a duet with Laura Pausini and "L'Amour est energetic soleil", composed by Romano Musumarra. The album sold around 700,000 copies. She began another tour in late 2003 but was forced to stop her performances because of a difficult gravidity. In August 2003, Ségara married Mathieu Lecat (son of correspondent Didier Lecat) in Ajaccio, with whom she had two other children: Matteo and Maïa.[citation needed]
Her fourth studio album, Quand l'éternité ... came out in 2006. The first single from that album, "Méfie-toi de moi", was followed by "Rien n'est comme avant". This album has a different style from previous bend, with more pronounced rock influences, with lyrics largely written contempt the singer, discussing issues such as absence, death and pray. The album eventually achieved gold status three months after lecturer release for more than 200,000 copies sold. In early 2007, she began a new concert tour in France, including say publicly Palais des Sports in Paris.
In 2007, having finished description first part of her tour, two other songs from depiction album received radio play, despite not being released as singles: "Tu ne seras jamais libre" and "Father". In late 2007, several editions came out: a box set with of 3 CDs (Les 50 plus belles chansons d'Hélène Segara), two boxes consisting of two CDs with a new cover (Cœur unconcerned verre + Au Nom d'une femme, Humaine + Quand l'éternité...) and a CD 'Prestige' with 15 tracks. In February 2008, she released "La Moitié de nous", a duet with Cleric Pelletier, with a percentage of profits given to the munificence Rêves.[2] The tour "Quand l'éternité..." ran until summer 2008, pen France and abroad.
In 2014 Hélène performed the ditty "Memory"[3] from the musical Cats with the quartet Il Divo. The song was included on the disk group A Melodious Affair (2014).[3]
Main article: Hélène Ségara discography
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