Elsa Lunghini
Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa (born 20 May 1973), is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts, with the single "T'en va pas", and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade. Elsa, her album of 1988, had achieved double-platinum status by 1993. Daughter of George Lunghini (actor, photographer and songwriter) and Christiane Jobert (painter and also sister of actress Marlène Jobert and Charles Jobert, a camera operator and director of photography), she is of Italian origin on her father's side, and of Sephardic Jewish origin on her mother's side. She is a cousin of actresses Eva Green and Josephine Jobert. Lunghini first performed in a movie at age seven, in 1981, in Claude Miller's Garde à vue (also starring Romy Schneider). She was the youngest artist to be in the main program at the Olympia (Paris), at 17, in October 1990 as well as the youngest to have a number 1 hit in the Top 50 in France. At 13, in 1986, she remained number 1 for eight weeks with "T'en va pas" (soundtrack of the movie La Femme de ma vie). The song was composed by the Italian Romano Musumarra, who had worked and helped produce hits for 1980s singer Jeanne Mas. The song was a hit in France and sold elsewhere in Europe with an English recording. With the help of her musician father, she recorded her LP Elsa. It sold more than 600,000 copies with hit singles such as "Quelque chose dans mon cœur" ("Something in my heart"), "Jour de neige" ("Snowing day"), "Jamais nous" (with backing vocals by French singer Laurent Voulzy) ("Never us"), "Un Roman d'amitié" (duet with Glenn Medeiros) ("Friend you give me a Reason"), "À la même heure dans deux ans" ("At the same time in two years"). All were top 10 hits. At that time, Lunghini was the only artist to have her first four singles at number one or two. She became popular in the teen press, often compared with Vanessa Paradis. In 1990, she made her second album, Rien que pour ça ("Only for that"). The songs were produced by her father and Elsa wrote the music for the single of the same name. "Rien que pour ça" was a top 20 hit. Two other excerpts were released: "Pleure doucement" ("Cry softly") and "Qu'est-ce que ça peut lui faire" ("How does she matter"). The two last singles were less successful. She made her first tour, at the Olympia. In 1992, Lunghini recorded "Bouscule-moi" ("Push me on"), a mid-rock single with more adult lyrics. "Bouscule-moi" was a hit single. Her third album was Douce violence ("Sweet violence"). Two more singles promoted it but they failed to become hits. In 1996, aged 23, she wrote and composed her fourth album, Chaque jour est un long chemin (Every day is a long way). It sold 20,000. From 20 to 24 September 2004, she gave shows in Paris at the Européen. A live DVD and a live CD went on sale in 2006. Lunghini takes part annually in the Tour of the Resto du Coeur soup-kitchen charity and helps causes such as Sol En Si. She has starred in two TV movies: 2002's La mort est rousse and 2004's Trois jours en juin and is involved in a television advertising campaign for Danone yoghurt. ... Source: Article "Elsa Lunghini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- 2023 · Je suis né à 17 ans as Laurence
- 2023 · Six Women as Eve
- 2022 · Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Ici tout commence as Clotilde Armand
- 2019 · Murder in Saint Omer as Olivia Sysman
- 2019 · révélations as Olivia Sysman
- 2018 · Her Word Against His as Laura
- 2016 · Mon frère bien-aimé as Barbara Bellefond
- 2014 · Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui as
- 2013 · Murders in... as Astrid d'Armentière
- 2013 · Murders in... as Capitaine Laetitia Alfonsi
- 2013 · Poor Richard! as Amel
- 2011 · Block 66 as Hani
- 2011 · The Nights of Alice as Alice
- 2009 · Aveugle mais pas trop as Emma
- 2008 · Où es-tu ? as Suzanne
- 2008 · Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés as
- 2005 · Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés as
- 2005 · Trois jours en juin as Sylvie
- 2002 · Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau as
- 2001 · Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés as
- 2000 · Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000 as
- 1999 · Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 as
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur as
- 1997 · Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés as
- 1992 · Coucou c'est nous ! as Self
- 1992 · The Return of Casanova as Marcolina
- 1990 · Stars 90 as self
- 1989 · Elsa sous la neige as Self
- 1987 · Le monde est à vous as Self
- 1987 · Sacrée soirée as self
- 1987 · Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- 1987 · Où que tu sois as Anne
- 1986 · The Woman of My Life as Eloïse
- 1985 · Red Kiss as Rosa
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1981 · The Inquisitor as Camille
- 1977 · Fan School as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self