Alizée

Biography of Alizée

Alizée Lyonnet was born on August 21, 1984 in Ajaccio, Corsica. She is a French singer and dancer.

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

From an early age, Alizée was interested in dance, singing and acting. At the age of four, she took classical and Spanish dance classes, as well as jazz dance and tap dance classes. 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 in1999: Alizée took part in a casting for the French talent show Graines de Star on the M6 television channel. She wanted to take the chance to become a professional dancer but was accepted in the singing category. In the show, broadcast on February 25, 2000, she then performed with the title Ma Prière by the French popular singer Axelle Red and won.

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, inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, and was looking for a young singer to match the song. After test recordings, they then produced the song with Alizée.

On July 4, 2000, Moi...Lolita was released in France and immediately reached number two 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 the most successful non-English-language single in Great Britain to date.

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

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

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

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, among others, also contributed. The first single Mademoiselle Juliette appeared in France on September 30, 2007.

For the Psychédélices "Mexican Tour Edition" released June 25, 2008, Alizée produced a cover of >Madonna's La Isla Bonita.

Alizée's fourth studio album Une enfant du siècle was released on March 29, 2010.

Alizée's fifth studio album 5 was initially announced by her for October 2012, involving Jean-Jacques Goldman, Thomas Boulard (singer and guitarist of the group Luke) and the BB Brunes, among others.

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

In 2014, she lent her voice to the fairy Nyx in the French dubbed version of the film Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast

While recording the TV showEurobestin March 2003, she metJérémy Chatelain, a singer and ex-participant of the French talent showStar Academy. The twomarriedin November 2003 in Las Vegas. The couple split in 2011, with the split having a major impact on Alizée's fifth album5.

Shortly thereafter, Alizée moved from Paris back to Ajaccio with their daughter. She has been in a relationship with dancerGrégoire Lyonnetsince late 2013, with whom she won the fourth season ofDanse avec les stars(French version of Let's Dance). The couplemarriedin June 2016 and opened a dance school in Ajaccio in 2017. In November 2019, Alizée's second daughter, the couple's first child together, was born.