{"id":68,"date":"2009-03-09T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-03-09T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:46:15","slug":"french-music-helene-segara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-music-helene-segara\/","title":{"rendered":"French Music &#8211; H\u00e9l\u00e8ne S\u00e9gara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne S\u00e9gara was born on February 26, 1971, on French soil to an Italian father and an Armenian mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> Growing up on the French Riviera, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne suffered the divorce of her parents and her beloved grandfather\u2019s death.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>After winning a local music contest at age 11, she left her family and studies at the age of 14 to become a singer. <span>\u00a0<\/span>She performed in piano bars on the southern coast and at age 18, she gave birth to her first son.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Her first single, which was released in 1993, was not successful.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Three years later, she moved to Paris with her son and her career began to take off with her debut album <em>Coeur de verre<\/em> and her famous duet with Andrea Bocelli <em>Vivo per lei<\/em>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She played Esmeralda in the <em>Notre Dame de Paris<\/em> musical alongside Garou, although she was not originally chosen for the role and only received it after the first choice withdrew. <span>\u00a0<\/span>In fact, she was not the female singer who recorded the <em>Notre Dame<\/em> album. <span>\u00a0<\/span>Fortunately, she recovered from a cyst found on her vocal chords by 2000 and was able to release a second album entitled <em>Au nom d&#8217;une femme<\/em>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She became a French favorite on the music scene, winning several awards including a World Music Award for the best-selling French album.<br \/>\nIn 2003, she released a third album <em>Humaine<\/em> and married her drummer, Mathieu Lecat, with whom she had two children.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Her album <em>Quand l\u2019\u00e9ternit\u00e9\u2026<\/em>hit the stores in 2006, but did not sell as well as the other three.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It is more rock than the other three and was largely written by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne. <span>\u00a0<\/span>The themes include absence, death and hope and are most likely a reflection of her trying life.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Over the years, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne has been active with several charities and has participated in various charity concerts. <span>\u00a0<\/span>Her album <em>Mon pays, c\u2019est la terre<\/em> came out in 2008 and is a compilation of international remakes.<br \/>\nIt is interesting to note that she released a Spanish-language album in 2002 entitled <em>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal\">Although not very up-to-date, you can go to her <a href=\"http:\/\/lnsegara.artistes.universalmusic.fr\/site.html\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>\u00a0where\u00a0you can listen to clips of all of her albums.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne S\u00e9gara was born on February 26, 1971, on French soil to an Italian father and an Armenian mother. Growing up on the French Riviera, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne suffered the divorce of her parents and her beloved grandfather\u2019s death.\u00a0 After winning a local music contest at age 11, she left her family and studies at the age&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-music-helene-segara\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[367,370,453,527,601],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-music","tag-french-music","tag-french-musicians","tag-helene-segara","tag-notre-dame-de-paris","tag-vivo-per-lei"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}