Alizée

Alizée in Paris (2013)

Alizée Lyonnet [ a.li.ze ] (* 21st August 1984 in Ajaccio , Corsica as alizée Jacotey ) is a French singer and dancer .

Life

Jacotey is the daughter of a businesswoman and a computer scientist , she grew up in the Corsican city of Ajaccio. Your first name is derived from Alizé , the French name for the trade wind . She has a younger brother.

1995 won a drawing contest Jacotey the airline AOM French Airlines . Her drawing was reproduced on the fuselage of an MD-80 , which was also baptized in her name. The aircraft was later repainted and sold to the South African airline 1time .

While recording the TV show Eurobest in March 2003, she met Jérémy Chatelain, a singer and ex-participant in the French talent show Star Academy . The two married in November 2003 in Las Vegas . The couple split in 2011, with the split having a significant impact on Alizée's fifth album 5 .

Shortly afterwards, Jacotey moved from Paris back to Ajaccio with their daughter (* 2005) . She has been in a relationship with the dancer Grégoire Lyonnet since the end of 2013, with whom she won the fourth season of Danse avec les stars (French version of Let's Dance ). The couple married in June 2016 and opened a dance school in Ajaccio in 2017. In November 2019, Alizée's second daughter, the couple's first child, was born.

Career

Beginnings

Alizée took an early interest in dance, singing and acting. At the age of four she took classical and Spanish dance lessons as well as classes in jazz dance and tap dance . A year later she switched to the renowned dance and drama school École du Spectacle de Monique Mufraggi , where she also gained her first stage experience in twelve years of training.

Her musical success began in 1999: Alizée took part in a casting for the French talent show Graines de Star on the TV channel M6 . She wanted to take the chance to become a professional dancer, but she was accepted in the singing category . In the show, broadcast on February 25, 2000, she then appeared with the title Ma Prière by the popular French singer Axelle Red and won. Following the rules of the show, she appeared again on the next show a week later, again with Ma Prière .

2000-2002: Gourmandises

The French singer Mylène Farmer and the French producer Laurent Boutonnat became aware of Alizée through the two television appearances . Farmer had just written the song Moi… Lolita , which she was inspired to write by Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita , and was looking for a young singer to whom the song would go. After test recordings, they then produced the song with Alizée.

On July 4, 2000, Moi… Lolita was released in France and immediately reached second place in the French charts . It became the first single to stay on the charts for 73 weeks. The song was also successful outside of France, for example it is still the most successful non-English-language single in Great Britain . Moi… Lolita appeared in Germany in September 2001 and climbed to number 5 in the German charts.

The second single L'Alizé was also a hit with around 500,000 records sold. At the same time, Alizée released her first album Gourmandises . She sold more than four million singles in Europe and was recognized as the most internationally successful French artist at the 2002 World Music Awards .

2003-2007: Mes courants électriques

Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat were again responsible for their second album, Mes courants électriques , released in 2003 . It sold over 200,000 copies in France and reached chart number 2. For the international edition of the album, Alizée also recorded English-language versions of four songs.

From August 2003 to January 2004 Alizée was on a concert tour through France. During this tour the live CD and DVD Alizée en concert , which was released in October 2004, was created. To promote it , a video clip of the song Amélie m'a dit was published in France , which contained excerpts from the DVD.

In 2007 Mexico became aware of Alizée. After some of their songs had already been played on Mexican radios, Alizée en concert was released as a CD + DVD edition in February 2007 , climbed to number 8 on the album charts and achieved gold status (50,000 records sold).

2007–2009: Psychédélices

For the third album Psychédélices , which was released on December 3, 2007, Alizée no longer worked with Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. Instead, the album was produced by husband Jérémy Châtelain, and Jean Fauque, Oxmo Puccino and Daniel Darc also contributed. The first single Mademoiselle Juliette was released in France on September 30, 2007 - initially only as a download; the CD version followed on January 21, 2008. Fifty-Sixty was released as the second single . On February 8, 2008, Psychédélices was also published in Germany.

In France and Europe, Alizée was unable to build on her earlier successes with the album, whereas she continued her success in Mexico. Both Psychédélices and the compilation Tout Alizée , published only there, reached good chart positions. Alizée produced a cover of Madonna's La Isla Bonita for the “Mexican Tour Edition” by Psychédélices published on June 25, 2008 .

On May 18, 2008 Alizée started her Psychédélices Tour with a concert in Moscow. Several concerts in Mexico followed in June. The concert originally planned for October 23, 2008 at Le Grand Rex in Paris was only postponed until March 2009 and finally canceled completely.

2010–2012: Une enfant du siècle

Alizée's fourth studio album Une enfant du siècle was released on March 29, 2010. After Alizée came into contact with the electronic label Institubes for remixes of the single Fifty-Sixty , Une enfant du siècle has now been produced by artists of the label - in particular by the label- Chef Jean-René Etienne and the Chateau Marmont group. And just like Fifty-Sixty , the songs on the album are based on the life of model Edie Sedgwick . The first single Les collines (Never Leave You) was released in France on March 8, 2010 as a download. Her album was released in Germany on April 2, 2010.

Alizée recorded the duet Clara veut la lune together with Alain Chamfort . The re-recording of the song, the original of which Chamfort wrote for his album Neuf (1993), was released on his album Elles & Lui (2012).

2012–2013: 5th

Alizée's fifth studio album - 5 (French "Cinq" [ sɛ̃k ]) - was initially announced by her for October 2012, including Jean-Jacques Goldman , Thomas Boulard (singer and guitarist of the group Luke ) and BB Brunes . On June 27, 2012, Alizée released the first single À cause de l'automne on their homepage . The song was originally written as Never Again by British Pete Russell, Thomas Boulard then wrote the French lyrics.

However, the album's release was postponed several times until it finally appeared in France on March 25, 2013. It was produced by Alexandre Azaria , other contributors besides Thomas Boulard are Adrien Gallo (singer of BB Brunes ), Antoine "Bartone" Barrailler and Christian Vié.

Together with Olly Murs , Alizée recorded a version of Murs' single Dear Darlin produced for the French market , which was released on September 2, 2013.

Since 2014: Blonde

On June 20, 2014, the sixth studio album Blonde was released just one year after 5 . The first single of the same name was released on March 18, 2014. On June 16, 2014, the second single Alcaline was released .

Others

In 2001 and 2002 and from 2008 to 2013 Alizée took part in the annual charity event Les Enfoirés , where French celebrities give concerts, the proceeds of which go to the aid organization Les Restos du Cœur .

In 2014 she voiced the fairy Nyx in the French dubbed version of the film Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	FR	BE ^W	Remarks
2000	Gourmandises	DE29 (21 weeks) DE	AT40 (9 weeks) AT	CH27 platinum (50 weeks)CH	-	FR1 × 2 Double platinum (84 weeks)FR	BE ^W7th gold (49 weeks)BE ^W	First published: November 21, 2000 Sales: + 4,000,000
2003	Mes courants electrical	DE26 (10 weeks) DE	-	CH13 (13 weeks) CH	-	FR2 × 2 Double gold (49 weeks)FR	BE ^W9 (9 weeks) BE ^W	First published: March 28, 2003 Sales: + 200,000
2007	Psychédélices	-	-	CH99 (1 week) CH	-	FR16 gold (16 weeks)FR	BE ^W50 (9 weeks) BE ^W	First published: December 3, 2007 Sales: + 125,000
2010	Une enfant du siècle	-	-	-	-	FR24 (6 weeks) FR	BE ^W60 (4 weeks) BE ^W	First published: March 29, 2010
2013	5	-	-	-	-	FR23 (6 weeks) FR	BE ^W41 (11 weeks) BE ^W	First published: March 25, 2013
2014	blonde	-	-	CH79 (1 week) CH	-	FR19 (3 weeks) FR	BE ^W19 (8 weeks) BE ^W	First published: June 23, 2014

Artist awards

2000: M6 Music Award ( Best French New Discovery )
2001: DMX Music Award ( Best song not released in the US )
2001: NRJ Music Award ( Best French New Discovery and Best Artist Website )
2002: World Music Award ( internationally most successful French artist )
2008: Lunas del Auditorio Award in Mexico ( best foreign pop musician )

Web links

Commons : Alizée - collection of images, videos and audio files

Alizée on MusicBrainz (English)
Alizée in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Link catalog on the topic of Alizée at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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↑ Audrey Kucinskas: Alizée et Grégoire Lyonnet se sont mariés après trois ans de passion. In: L'Express . June 22, 2016, accessed June 23, 2016 (French).
↑ Alizée; Les Soul Men. France Bleu, March 24, 2013, accessed March 25, 2013 .
↑ Corinne Calmet: Alizée et Grégoire Lyonnet: ils se sont mariés ce week-end! In: Télé-Loisirs. June 20, 2016, accessed June 20, 2016 (French).
↑ http://www.corsematin.com/article/article/studio-lyonnet-dans-les-pas-de-danse-dalizee-et-gregoire
↑ Prisma Média: PHOTO - Alizée, maman: elle pose avec sa fille Maggy - Gala. Retrieved December 26, 2019 (French).
↑ www.ecole-du-spectacle.com
↑ Alizée: écoutez le titre "Limelight". Charts in France, February 12, 2010, accessed March 25, 2013 .
^ Publishing News. DWB Music, May 2012, accessed March 25, 2013 .
↑ http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Olly-Murs/news-87712.html
↑ http://www.alizee-fanpage.de/newsscript/2014/06/blonde/
^ "Blonde" - Nouveau single available ( Memento from June 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ http://www.amazon.fr/Alcaline/dp/B00KX0B182/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402871939&sr=8-1&keywords=alizee+alcaline
↑ www.parismatch.com
↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK FR1 FR2 BEW
↑ laut.de biography Alizée. In: Laut.de . Retrieved February 26, 2016 .
↑ Recording of the award on YouTube

personal data
SURNAME	Alizée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lyonnet, Alizée (full name); Jacotey, Alizée (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French singer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ajaccio , France

[1] Audrey Kucinskas: Alizée et Grégoire Lyonnet se sont mariés après trois ans de passion. In: L'Express . June 22, 2016, accessed June 23, 2016 (French).

[2] Alizée; Les Soul Men. France Bleu, March 24, 2013, accessed March 25, 2013 .

[3] Corinne Calmet: Alizée et Grégoire Lyonnet: ils se sont mariés ce week-end! In: Télé-Loisirs. June 20, 2016, accessed June 20, 2016 (French).

[4] ttp://www.corsematin.com/article/article/studio-lyonnet-dans-les-pas-de-danse-dalizee-et-gregoire

[5] Prisma Média: PHOTO - Alizée, maman: elle pose avec sa fille Maggy - Gala. Retrieved December 26, 2019 (French).

[6] www.ecole-du-spectacle.com

[7] Alizée: écoutez le titre "Limelight". Charts in France, February 12, 2010, accessed March 25, 2013 .

[8] Publishing News. DWB Music, May 2012, accessed March 25, 2013 .

[9] ttp://www.chartsinfrance.net/Olly-Murs/news-87712.html

[10] ttp://www.alizee-fanpage.de/newsscript/2014/06/blonde/

[11] "Blonde" - Nouveau single available ( Memento from June 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[12] ttp://www.amazon.fr/Alcaline/dp/B00KX0B182/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402871939&sr=8-1&keywords=alizee+alcaline

[13] www.parismatch.com

[charts-14] Chart sources: DE AT CH UK FR1 FR2 BEW

[15] laut.de biography Alizée. In: Laut.de . Retrieved February 26, 2016 .

[16] Recording of the award on YouTube