Julie Zenatti

Julie Zenatti in Réunion (2005)

Julie Zenatti (born February 5, 1981 in Paris ) is a French singer who became known for her role as Fleur-de-Lys in the musical Notre Dame de Paris by Luc Plamondon and Riccardo Cocciante .

Childhood and personal life

Julie Zenatti was born in Paris in 1981 and has Algerian and Italian roots. As a child, Julie Zenatti sang with her father, who accompanied her on the piano. She interpreted Edith Piaf , Johnny Hallyday , Barbra Streisand and Fugain . Zenatti now lives in Paris with her husband, the French comedian Benjamin Bellecour , and their daughter, who was born in January 2011.

Beginnings

At the age of twelve, Zenatti was discovered in a holiday club by an EMI representative . She got a record deal, in 1994 she recorded a song with Lenny Kravitz in London . Shortly afterwards, however, the contract was terminated as the pressure was too high for them. A year later, Zenatti recorded the soundtrack to an animated series (the French version of Princess Starla and the Crystal Saviors ) on France 3 . In the same year she was offered to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest , but she declined.

In 1996 the singer took part in the Francofolies music festival in La Rochelle . Danièle Molko , the festival's artistic director, accompanied her first steps. She introduced Zenatti to Luc Plamondon, author of the musical Notre Dame de Paris . She was then offered the role of Esmeralda in his musical. However, this role turned out to be too demanding for a girl at the age of 15, which is why she received the part of Fleur-de-Lys. At 17 she left school to devote herself entirely to music. In 1999 she played the Fleur-de-Lys in Canada , after returning to France she played the role of Esmeralda for six months.

Career

In 2000, she released her first album, Fragile, on Sony Music . The album was created in collaboration with Zazie , Galogero, Passi and Luck Mervil . She wrote her first single Si je m'en sors together with Patrick Fiori and achieved her first solo success with it. The gold- winning recording has sold 150,000 times. In 2002 her second album Dans les yeux d'un autre ( In the eyes of another ) was released. She wrote a large part of the texts together with Patrick Fiori, but also used texts by Maxime Le Forestier , Jacques Vénéruso and Jacques Lanzmann, among others . The album sold 140,000 copies and was awarded gold.

In 2004 her third album Comme vous ( Wie ihr ) from the pop-rock genre was released. Besides her, Patrick Fiori, Jean-Jacques Goldman , Axel Bauer and Lionel Florence worked on the album . The album received the gold record. She also began to write lyrics for other artists such as Chimène Badi , Patrick Fiori and Grégory Lemarchal . In 2007 she composed most of the music for her next album La boîte de Pandore ( The Pandora's Box ) on her own. With about 75,000 copies sold, it achieved moderate success over their previous releases.

In November 2008, with the help of her manager Danièle Molko, she organized a reunion of the original cast of Notre-Dame de Paris, where the idea arose to return to the stage with a concert version of the musical. Julie Zenatti tried her hand at writing and began writing the story down in a diary. In 2009, the singer was part of the jury team of the French version of the talent show X-Factor alongside Marc Ceronne and Alain Lanty . In 2010 her fifth album Plus de Diva ( More from the Diva ) was released in the symphony-pop genre. The songs for this album were written by Fréderic Chateau, Nathasha St Pier, Florent Pagny and Pascal Obispo . In 2013 Zenatti released her first live album. The EP Quelque part ... contains five songs, including Je te manque in a duet with François Raoult . In the same year she canceled her contract with Sony and signed with Universal . Her new album is to be released there, from which D'où je viens was previously released as a single.

Discography

Studio albums

• 2000: Fragile
• 2002: Dans les yeux d'un autre
• 2004: Comme vous
• 2007: La boîte de Pandore
• 2010: Plus de Diva
• 2015: Blanc

Singles

• 1996: Mon ami pour la vie
• 1999: Couloir de la vie
• 2000: Si Je m'en sors
• 2000: Why
• 2002: La vie fait tout ce qu'elle veut
• 2003: Dans les yeux d'un autre
• 2003: T'emmener en amour
• 2004: Je voudrais que tu me consoles
• 2005: Couvre-moi
• 2005: A quoi ça sert
• 2007: Tango (Princesse)
• 2007: Douce
• 2008: Si le temps me permettait
• 2010: L'herbe tendre
• 2010: Comme une geisha
• 2010: Venice 2037
• 2013: Je te manque
• 2014: D'où je viens

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1. ↑ Biography for Julie Zenatti. imdb.com, accessed August 2, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} biography de Julie Zenatti. purepeople.com, accessed August 2, 2012 (French). 
3. ↑ Julie Zenatti got married. Retrieved July 13, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Julie Zenatti is expecting a happy event. Retrieved August 15, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Julie Zenatti is a mother. Retrieved September 2, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Certifications Singles Argent - année 2001. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 28, 2012 ; accessed on August 2, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Certifications Albums Or - année 2003. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 28, 2012 ; accessed on August 2, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Certifications Albums Or - année 2005. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 29, 2011 ; accessed on August 2, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Certifications Albums Or - année 2005. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 11, 2010 ; accessed on August 2, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Le journal de Julie Z .: Julie Zenatti à coeur ouvert (Extraits). October 16, 2009, accessed August 2, 2012 (French). 
11. ↑ Sonia Ouadhi: Plus De Diva - Julie Zenatti. (No longer available online.) MusicActu, November 3, 2010, archived from the original on March 14, 2010 ; accessed on August 2, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ^ Rencontre avec Julie Zenatti. January 29, 2013, accessed August 17, 2014 (French). 
13. ↑ Julie Zenatti signe chez Capitol France pour un new album en 2014. October 15, 2013, accessed on August 17, 2014 (French). 

literature

• Julie Zenatti: Le journal de Julie Z. Marque-Pages, Chatou 2009, ISBN 978-2-915397-25-3 .

Web links

Commons : Julie Zenatti  - Collection of Images

• Official website
• Julie Zenatti on MusicBrainz (English)
• Julie Zenatti at Allmusic (English)
• Julie Zenatti at Discogs (English)
• Julie Zenatti in the Internet Movie Database (English)