"Avril Benoit Avril Benoit is Director of Communications and Fundraising with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders at its operational centre based in Geneva, Switzerland. She is a Canadian former broadcaster best known for her radio programmes and documentaries on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. From 2006 to 2012, after two decades in journalism, she joined MSF in Canada as director of communications. She has worked as a humanitarian country director and project coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières, in Mauritania, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa. Benoît's documentaries from Kenya, Burundi, India and Brazil aired on"
"Lavigne, whose father is of French origin (born in Lorraine), is also popular in France, and she obtained her French passport and citizenship in 2011. One of the most famous French-speaking Asian artist is Anggun, a French-naturalised singer from Indonesia, best known for her single ""La Neige au Sahara"" (Snow on the Sahara) written by Erick Benzi. The song was released in 1997 as her debut international single in 33 countries worldwide, and topped the charts in Europe (#1 in Italy), America (#16 in USA Billboard), and Asia (#1 in Indonesia, #3 in Malaysia). French music also found surprising favorable"
"Avril Lavigne Avril Ramona Lavigne (; ; born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain and by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more than $2 million. Her debut studio album, ""Let Go"" (2002), emphasized a skate punk persona in which she has since been often referred by critics and music publications as the ""Pop Punk Queen"", due to her achievement and impact in the industry. Lavigne is considered a key musician in the development of pop punk"
"During the program, he wrote a new song ""Dingue de toi"" with the catch phrase 'Nabi...Nabilla'. Although he was eliminated prior to reaching the finals, the song has proven to be a hit with the public and has charted in the official French Singles Chart Sofiane was born in France to an Algerian father and a French mother. He grew up in a single mother environment with his father away. His father died in 2011. Sofiane (singer) Sofiane, dit aussi Fianso, de son nom complet Sofiane Zermani[1], né le 21 juillet 1986 à Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) en France, est un rappeur"
"her official Instagram account. In April 2015, she revealed to ""People"" magazine that she had been diagnosed with Lyme disease after her 30th birthday in 2014. In an interview with ""Billboard"" that same month, Lavigne said that she was in the recovery process and that she wanted to increase awareness of the disease. Current members Former members Headlining tours Promotional tours Avril Lavigne Avril Ramona Lavigne (; ; born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain and by 16, she had signed a two-album"
"on August 21, 1985 in Marseille, in the southern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Her parents are from the Algerian city of Bejaia. Passionate about music since her childhood, she began singing at the age of 10. She participated in various competitions in her hometown and while taking singing lessons. Her big sister entered a day at the age of 14 years at issuance Seeds star 4, but lost in the final. At 18 while preparing for her CAP salon, she met the French production duo Kilomaitre. Originally she wanted to use the stage name Melissa but that name had"
"Single releases differed from country to country. The brackets indicate where the single was released. Int = international. Viktor Lazlo Viktor Lazlo (real name: Sonia Dronier, born 7 October 1960 in Lorient, France) is a French-Belgian singer of Grenadian and Martiniquan descent. She studied in Belgium, where she is primarily known. Her biggest hit was ""Breathless"" in 1987. That year she also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 held in Brussels. Dronier took her stage name from Paul Henreid's character Victor Laszlo in the 1942 film ""Casablanca"". She sings in French, English, Spanish and German. In October 2016 Viktor Lazlo"
"Lavigne's official Facebook page. The video for the single was released in January 2011. The song was a success in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, reaching the top-ten, while it reached the top-twenty in France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Lavigne asked her fans via Twitter what the next single should be, giving the choices between ""Push"" and ""Smile"", with ""Smile"" ultimately being chosen as the second release. It was released worldwide on May 6, 2011 and its music video features scenes of Avril on a studio set which she decorated herself with color spray bombs, posters and"
"Ivorian artist in France. Liz was born in Zagné in the Guiglo Department in the western Ivory Coast. She grew up ion a strong music family, with her mother being a traditional singer. She developed her singing talents under choir master Pedro Wognin. Liz left the Ivory Coast in 1982 and settled in Paris, where she met the singer Rose Bâ and became acquainted with numerous African musicians. Three years later she released her debut album, ""Mlen Gniniè"", which was arranged by Sammy Massamba. In 1987, with Kéhi she won the César for Best Ivorian song. Liz began touring in"
"2018. Evigan was born in Los Angeles, California, to actor Greg Evigan and model-actress Pamela C. Serpe. He is the brother of actresses Briana Evigan and Vanessa Lee Evigan. He has worked with numerous recording artists including Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Avicii, Madonna, Nick Jonas, Kiiara, Zedd, Rufus Du Sol, Bebe Rexha, Skylar Grey, Jon Bellion, Starrah, Troye Sivan, Julia Michaels and Britney Spears. He has also produced records with Selena Gomez, Fifth Harmony, Zendaya, and Lupe Fiasco. Prior to his career as a writer and producer, Evigan was the lead singer of the Los Angeles-based band After"
"Ogress to express comments about the nature of love. The official website of Lounis Ait Menguellet: http://www.aitmenguellet.net/ Lounis Ait Menguellet Lounis Aït Menguellet is an Algerian singer born on January 17,1950 in Ighil Bouammas,Tizi Ouzou Province in the Kabylie region. Lounis Aït Menguellet sings in the berber language (kabyle variant) and is certainly one of the most popular and charismatic artists of the contemporary kabyle music scene. He is a poet-musician who has become something of a symbol of the kabyle demands for recognition. Kabylie has been the setting for many fierce confrontations. Although Lounis’s songs are frequently about Kabylie"
"He Wasn't ""He Wasn't"" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released as the fourth and final single from her second album, ""Under My Skin"" (2004). It was not released in the United States; instead, ""Fall to Pieces"" was released. The song was released in Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom. Beforehand, it was a released as a third single in Japan in June 2004. It was written and produced by Lavigne and Chantal Kreviazuk. Allmusic highlighted the song as one of the most significant post-grunge songs of all time. ""He Wasn't"" is about an unsuccessful relationship between Lavigne"
"Art Mengo Michel Armengot (born 16 September 1961), more commonly known as Art Mengo, is a French singer and songwriter. Though born in the Occitan city of Toulouse in France, he is of Spanish descent as his parents had fled from the Francoist State. It is worth noting that Mengo was born with greatly diminished hearing. In fact, it was estimated by doctors that 70% of his hearing ability was missing. Despite this handicap, his mother gave him a keyboard as a plaything. It is now clear that this had an impact upon his future career. During his teenage years,"
"Viktor Lazlo Viktor Lazlo (real name: Sonia Dronier, born 7 October 1960 in Lorient, France) is a French-Belgian singer of Grenadian and Martiniquan descent. She studied in Belgium, where she is primarily known. Her biggest hit was ""Breathless"" in 1987. That year she also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 held in Brussels. Dronier took her stage name from Paul Henreid's character Victor Laszlo in the 1942 film ""Casablanca"". She sings in French, English, Spanish and German. In October 2016 Viktor Lazlo announced the release of her new single ""Promised Land"". A new studio album is scheduled for 2017. In"
"Cyrille Aimée Cyrille Aimée (; born August 10, 1984) is a French jazz singer. She grew up in the French town of Samois-sur-Seine, in Fontainebleau, France. Her father is French and her mother is from the Dominican Republic. She won the ""Montreux Jazz Festival Competition"" in 2007, was a finalist in the ""Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition"" in 2010, and won the ""Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition"" in 2012. ""New York Times"" music reviewer Stephen Holden described Aimée as a blend of Michael Jackson and Sarah Vaughan and wrote that the ""saucy, curly-haired jazz singer [stood] with one foot in"
"her second extended play, ""High Maintenance"", the following year. The EP's lead single, ""Dancing Crazy"", written by Avril Lavigne, debuted at number 40 on the US ""Billboard"" Adult Pop Songs and peaked at number 100 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Cosgrove was born in Los Angeles, California, to Tom, who owns a dry-cleaning business, and Chris (née Casey), a homemaker. She has stated that she is of English, Irish, and French descent. At the age of three, she was discovered by a talent agent while singing and dancing at the Los Angeles restaurant Taste of L.A. Cosgrove stated that when"
"Lounis Ait Menguellet Lounis Aït Menguellet is an Algerian singer born on January 17,1950 in Ighil Bouammas,Tizi Ouzou Province in the Kabylie region. Lounis Aït Menguellet sings in the berber language (kabyle variant) and is certainly one of the most popular and charismatic artists of the contemporary kabyle music scene. He is a poet-musician who has become something of a symbol of the kabyle demands for recognition. Kabylie has been the setting for many fierce confrontations. Although Lounis’s songs are frequently about Kabylie and its history and its present suffering and misery, he is always quick to state that he"
"was looking really messy and all pink. He Wasn't ""He Wasn't"" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released as the fourth and final single from her second album, ""Under My Skin"" (2004). It was not released in the United States; instead, ""Fall to Pieces"" was released. The song was released in Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom. Beforehand, it was a released as a third single in Japan in June 2004. It was written and produced by Lavigne and Chantal Kreviazuk. Allmusic highlighted the song as one of the most significant post-grunge songs of all time. ""He Wasn't"""
"a little reggae vibe, some with more of a UK or retro vibe. It’s different and it all falls into place. Livvi Franc Olivia Charlotte Waithe (born 31 May 1988), better known by her stage name Livvi Franc, is a British Barbadian singer-songwriter. Franc was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England to an English mother and a Bajan father. Franc's stage name was inspired by her late maternal grandfather, Frank Wilson, she explained to Flavour Magazine that he had ""noticed me playing the piano and predicted I was going to be a musician. Sadly he’s no longer here. So, in"
"the United States and Canada. Awa Ly has previously used My Major Company, a fan-funded music label in France and also for finishing her new five track EP ""Prochain"", which was recorded at the Funkhaus in Berlin in December 2013, she seeks funding via the French crowdfunding platform KissKissBankBank. Awa Ly Awa Ly (born 4 January 1977 in Paris, France) is a singer and actress of Senegalese origin who lives in Italy. Awa Ly was born and raised in Paris. Both her parents are from Senegal, while most of her family lives in Dakar. She currently lives in Rome and"
"Mireille Mathieu Mireille Mathieu (; born 22 July 1946) is a French singer. She has recorded over 1200 songs in eleven languages, with more than 150 million albums sold worldwide. Mireille Mathieu was born on 22 July 1946 in Avignon, France, the eldest daughter of a family of fourteen children; the youngest brother was born after she moved to Paris. Her father Roger and his family were native to Avignon, while her mother Marcelle-Sophie (née Poirier) was from Dunkirk. She arrived in Avignon in 1944 as a refugee from World War II after her grandmother had died, and her mother"
"to Greater Napanee, Ontario, a town with a population of approximately 5,000. In school, she was sometimes kicked out of class for misbehaving. Her parents supported her singing. Her father bought her a microphone, a drum kit, a keyboard, and several guitars, and converted their basement into a studio; following his own love for music Jean-Claude led the family to church at Third Day Worship Center in Kingston, Ontario, where he often played bass. When Lavigne was 14 years old, her parents took her to karaoke sessions. Lavigne also performed at country fairs, singing songs by Garth Brooks, the Dixie"
"Lio Lio (born Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos, 17 June 1962) is a Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos was born in Mangualde, Portugal. When her father was called up to fight in the Portuguese Army, the family moved to Mozambique. Her parents divorced and, in 1968, Vanda moved with her mother and new stepfather to Brussels, Belgium, where her sister, actress Helena Noguerra, was born. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by"
"Jil Caplan Jil Caplan (born Valentine Guilen; 23 October 1965 in Paris, France) is a French singer and songwriter. Paris-born Valentine Guilen studied modern literature at the Sorbonne and theatre at the Cours Florent, where she met Jay Alanski, producer and composer of the most influential pop songs of the 1980s. In August 1986, she met her friends Les Innocents, then unknown by the general public, in a recording studio, where the group recorded their first single ""Jodie"", under the leadership of Alanski, who quickly offered her the chance to sing. Jil Caplan, as she became known, accepted, and that"
"singer Daniel Lavoie and actress Sandrine Kiberlain participated in the writing or the composing of the album. Source : ""Allmusic"". Ailleurs land Ailleurs land is a 2003 album recorded by French singer Florent Pagny. It was his tenth album oversall and was released on April 8, 2003. It achieved huge success in France and Belgium (Wallonia), where it remained charted respectively for 75 and 34 weeks, including several weeks atop. The album was also successful in Switzerland. It was led by the single ""Ma Liberté de penser"", a number-one hit in both countries, and followed by ""Je trace"", which had"
"Dave (singer) Dave (pronounced as in English : ) is the stage name of Wouter Otto Levenbach (), (born May 4, 1944), a Francophone singer from the Netherlands who had a string of number one hits in France in the 1970s. Despite his great success, he is still virtually unknown in his country of origin. Dave was born in Amsterdam. His father was Jewish and an English teacher by trade; his mother was a classical dancer. He has two brothers, Marteen and Lucas, and a sister, Elsbeth. He learned how to play guitar at 14 years of age. He became"
"Livvi Franc Olivia Charlotte Waithe (born 31 May 1988), better known by her stage name Livvi Franc, is a British Barbadian singer-songwriter. Franc was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England to an English mother and a Bajan father. Franc's stage name was inspired by her late maternal grandfather, Frank Wilson, she explained to Flavour Magazine that he had ""noticed me playing the piano and predicted I was going to be a musician. Sadly he’s no longer here. So, in honour of him, I called myself Livvi Franc; Livvi because it’s my nickname, and Franc because it’s a funkier version of"
"the only female western artist on the Top 10 list. Credits adapted from the liner notes of ""Avril Lavigne"". Avril Lavigne (album) Avril Lavigne is the eponymous fifth studio album by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. It was released on November 1, 2013 through Epic Records in North America and Sony Music Entertainment worldwide. Developed shortly after ""Goodbye Lullaby"" (2011), ""Avril Lavigne"" is primarily a pop record with rock influences. Lavigne collaborated with numerous producers including Martin Johnson, Peter Svensson, David Hodges, Matt Squire, and Chad Kroeger. In both musical and lyrical aspects, the album represents a departure from the acoustic-oriented"
"on 14 January 1997 in Kursk, Russia. They are the eldest of three children and they have one younger sister. Their first mentor in singing was their mother who is a music teacher. At the age of nine, the sisters represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Bucharest, Romania after being selected from 20 acts in the national final held on 4 June 2006. They later won the Junior Eurovision by a clear margin with their song ""Vesenniy Jazz"" (Literal: Spring Jazz, Cyrillic: Весенний Джаз) which earned them 154 points, with Belarus coming in at second place"
"and raised in Ethiopia. Both his parents (Garo Tilbian and Ani Aslanian) are of Armenian origin. His paternal grandfather escaped the Armenian Genocide in 1923 and by way of Syria eventually settled in Ethiopia. His mother's side of the family all left the ancient lands of Western Armenia by the late 1890s or early 1900s. Vahe values his Armenian roots and believes that it was the cruel history of Armenia that built his unique artistic character. Vahe heard the call of the stage as a singer later in life after he graduated from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada"
"five points. Virginie Pouchain Virginie Pouchain (born 1980 in Saint-Montan, Ardèche), is a singer and hairdresser from the département of Ardèche in southern France. On 14 March 2006 she was selected by the viewers of France 3 and a jury presided by Charles Aznavour to represent France in Eurovision Song Contest 2006. For the French national grand finale, she sang Céline Dion's hit song ""Pour que tu m'aimes encore"". In Athens, Virginie performed a song – written especially for the occasion by the German-born singer Corneille – entitled ""Il était temps"" (""It's about time""). She finished in the third-to-last position"
"Lara Fabian Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born 9 January 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Canadian-Belgian singer, songwriter, musician, actress and producer. She sold over 20 million records worldwide as of September 2017 and is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time. She was born in Etterbeek, Brussels to a Belgian father and a Sicilian mother. Since 1996 she holds a Canadian citizenship alongside the original Belgian. As of 2015 she lived in Walloon Brabant province in Belgium just outside Brussels. She has since moved back to Montreal. Fabian is the only child of Pierre Crokaert,"
"of which the writer Marc Lévy paid him a stirring tribute, as if he had written the exceptional destiny of little Francesco Barracato. Frédéric was very moved, to the point of wishing to include this video in his new tour, in a segment entitled ""Hommage à mon père"" [Homage to my father]. Frédéric François Born on 3 June 1950 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy, Frédéric François (real name: Francesco Barracato), is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium. Born on 3 June 1950 in Lercara Friddi in Sicily, in a very modest Italian family, he is the second child of Antonina"