Alma (French singer)

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Alma (2017)
Alma (2017)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Ma peau aime
  FR 33 05/12/2017 (6 weeks)
Singles
requiem
  FR 5 05/12/2017 (10 weeks)

Alma (* 27. September 1988 in Lyon as Alexandra Maquet ) is a French singer . She represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 (ESC) in Kiev .

Life

Alma was born Alexandra Maquet in Lyon and grew up with two younger sisters. As a child, Alma began singing and playing the piano, which she used to entertain her younger siblings. She also began to write her own songs. When Alma was 15 years old, her family moved to the United States , after Los Angeles . At 17, she returned to France and studied economics at the Catholic University of Lille belonging IESEG School of Management . During her studies, Alma completed internships in São Paulo , Milan and Brussels . She spent a total of ten years in the northern French city of Lille .

In January 2012, after graduating, Alma began to present her own songs and cover songs in English on the YouTube video portal . Then Edoardo Grassi, head of the French ESC delegation, became aware of her and, at the end of 2013, gave her her first television appearance on the French Sunday afternoon program Les Chansons d'Abord on France 3 . Through the show, Alma also met the singer-songwriter Nazim , with whom she worked from then on. She moved to Paris to devote herself entirely to music. There Alma u. a. Lessons in singing, composition, solfège and scenic expression. Together with Nazim she performed a. a. at Les Trois Baudets and Connectable in Paris . A first single, the melancholy piano ballad La chute est lente , was released on the Internet in June 2016 and was viewed 66,000 times.

On February 9, 2017, Alma was announced as the French participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev . An artistic committee from Eurovision and France 2 gave her preference in an internal selection. a. Florent Mothe and Camille Lou for the ESC final on May 13, 2017 with the title Requiem . The oriental-inspired dance-pop -Song, simultaneously the second single from her upcoming album, was written by Nazim, who a year earlier at the French ESC contribution J'ai cherché of Amir had been involved. In the ESC finals, Alma presented a bilingual version of Requiem - in French and English  - that took 12th place.

Alma's debut album Ma peau aime was released on May 5, 2017 by Warner Music . In addition to Nazim, David Gategno , Pierre Jaconelli and Renaud Rebillaud also worked on it.

In spring 2017, Alma performed as the opening act on Amir's tour. She counts u. a. Celine Dion among her role models.

Discography

Albums

  • Ma peau aime (2017)

Singles

  • Trinquons (2014)
  • La chute est lente (2016)
  • Requiem (2017)
  • T'es pas un homme (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Current French Charts (with archive)
  2. ↑ a b c d Exclusive interview with Alma. Eurovision-fr.net; Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Eric Bureau: VIDEO. Eurovision: la chanteuse Alma représentera la France on leparisien.fr, 9 February 2017; accessed on February 10, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Capucine Trollion: Eurovision 2017: qui est Alma, la chanteuse qui représentera la France? at rtl.fr, February 9, 2017; accessed on February 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c Stéphanie Raïo: Eurovision 2017: Alma représentera la France avec Requiem at lefigaro.fr, February 9, 2017; accessed on February 10, 2017.
  6. ↑ La chanteuse Alma représentera la France au concours de l'Eurovision at lemonde.fr, February 9, 2017 (accessed February 10, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Alma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maquet, Alexandra (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , France