L5 (band)

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L5
New L5 (2016)
New L5 (2016)
General information
origin FranceFrance France
Genre (s) Pop , Europop
founding 2001, 2014, 2016
resolution 2007, 2016
Website newl5officiel
Founding members
Alexandra Canto
singing
 Coralie Gelle
singing
 Claire Litvine
singing
 Louisy Joseph
singing
 Marjorie Parascandola
Current occupation
singing
 Alexandra Canto
singing
 Coralie Gelle
singing
 Marjorie Parascandola
singing
 Adeline Gomez (since 2016)
singing
 Julie Herbillon (since 2016)
former members
singing
 Claire Litvine (until 2007)
singing
 Louisy Joseph (until 2007)

L5 is a French pop band .

Band history

L5 emerged from the first French version of the Popstars singing competition , broadcast by M6 since September 20, 2001.

The castings took place in Nantes , Montpellier , Lyon , Strasbourg and Paris . On November 8, 2001, the preliminary winners were announced. Since the then vocal candidate Marjorie Parascandola in particular passed the last tests, the line-up was no longer changed. With Happy Face , Évidence and L5, there were three alternatives to choose from for the band name . At the end of November 2001, L5 was announced as the new band name.

The first single, Toutes les femmes de ta vie , sold more than 200,000 copies in the first two days, a sales start that had never been seen before in France. Overall, this first L5 single achieved sales of over 1.6 million copies.

L5's first concert tour went through France, Belgium and Switzerland. It began on May 16, 2002 at the Atares in Le Mans and ended on June 25, 2002 in the Parc des expositions in Reims .

In 2007 L5 split. The band was founded in 2014 and 2016. At the last new foundation, under the name New L5 , Adeline Gomez and Julie Herbillon replaced Claire Litvine and Louisy Joseph, who had not been active for L5 since 2007 .

Band members

Current members

  • Alexandra Canto, nicknames : Alex, Bilou and Nini (born June 26, 1978 in Marseille )
  • Coralie Gelle, nickname : Coco (born October 7, 1977 in Bressuire )
  • Marjorie Parascandola, nickname : Margot (born October 8, 1980 in Pierrelatte )
  • Adeline Gomez (born January 20, 1986 in Pertuis )
  • Julie Herbillon

former members

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
FR FR MOVE BE W CH CH
2001 L5 FR1
diamond
diamond

(31 weeks)FR 		- CH3
platinum
platinum

(23 weeks)CH
First published: December 15, 2001
2002 Retiens moi FR1
platinum
platinum

(33 weeks)FR 		- CH14 (15 weeks)
CH
First published: October 5, 2002
2004 Le Live FR32 (7 weeks)
FR 		- -
First published: February 8, 2004
2005 Turbulences FR8 (12 weeks)
FR 		- CH80 (1 week)
CH
First published: January 23, 2005
2006 Best of - - -
First published: 2006

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
FR FR MOVE BE W CH CH
2001 Toutes les femmes de ta vie
L5 		FR1
diamond
diamond

(24 weeks)FR 		BE W17 (11 weeks)
BE W 		CH11 (10 weeks)
CH
First published: December 1, 2001
2002 Une étincelle
L5 		FR7th
silver
silver

(16 weeks)FR 		- -
First published: February 2, 2002
Question de survie
L5 		FR34 (11 weeks)
FR 		- -
First published: April 27, 2002
Aime
Retiens-moi 		FR13
gold
gold

(18 weeks)FR 		- CH24 (9 weeks)
CH
First published: October 19, 2002
Retiens-moi
Retiens-moi 		FR20 (15 weeks)
FR 		- CH59 (5 weeks)
CH
First published: December 14, 2002
2003 Maniac
Retiens-moi 		FR9 (15 weeks)
FR 		- CH52 (7 weeks)
CH
First published: April 26, 2003
Remnants of encore
Retiens-moi 		FR56 (8 weeks)
FR 		- -
First published: November 2, 2003
2005 À ta liberté
Turbulences 		FR31 (15 weeks)
FR 		- -
First published: June 11, 2005

The tracks Déconnecter from the album Turbulences and Walk Like An Egyptian from the album Best Of were not released as single . Only music videos of both titles were released in 2005 and 2006 .

Video albums

  • Comment devenir popstars. L'history vraie du groupe. (110 minutes, region code 2. Contains excerpts from the casting, workshop and recording studio as well as an early live performance with Toutes les femmes de ta vie and the two music videos Toutes les femmes de ta vie and Une etincelle . First day of sale: March 6, 2002)
  • Le Live (126 minutes, region code 0. Contains the concert from the Zénith in Paris on December 12, 2003 and the seven music videos Toutes les femmes de ta vie, Une étincelle, Question de survie, Aime, Retiens-moi, Maniac and Reste encore . First day of sale: March 9, 2004)

Tours

  • 2016–2018: New L5 en Concert
  • 2019: Back to Basics Tour

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources albums: FR BEW CH
  2. ↑ Chart sources singles: FR BEW CH
  3. ↑ Awards for music sales: FR FR2 CH
  4. ^ Les L5 en concert à Toulouse: "La magie opère encore, dix-neuf ans après". In: ladepeche.fr. May 29, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 (French).