Elsa Lunghini

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Elsa Lunghini

Acting 53 May 20, 1973

Paris, France

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 numb…

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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"). 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"). 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. 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.

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  1. 2025
    Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2024
    Meurtres à Château-Thierry

    Movie Laetitia Alfonsi

  3. 2023
    Je suis né à 17 ans

    Movie Laurence

  4. 2023
    Six Women

    TV show Eve

  5. 2022
    Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  6. 2021
  7. 2020
    Ici tout commence

    TV show Clotilde Armand

  8. 2019
    Murder in Saint Omer

    Movie Olivia Sysman

  9. 2018
    Her Word Against His

    Movie Laura

  10. 2016
    Mon frère bien-aimé

    Movie Barbara Bellefond

  11. 2014
  12. 2013
    Murders in...

    TV show Astrid d'Armentière

  13. 2013
    Poor Richard!

    Movie Amel

  14. 2011
    Block 66

    Movie Hani

  15. 2011
    The Nights of Alice

    Movie Alice

  16. 2009
    Aveugle mais pas trop

    Movie Emma

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  1. 2008
    Où es-tu ?

    TV show Suzanne

  2. 2008
  3. 2005
  4. 2005
    Trois jours en juin

    Movie Sylvie

  5. 2002
  6. 2001
  7. 2000
  8. 1999
  9. 1998
    Vivement dimanche

    TV show Self

  10. 1998
  11. 1997
  12. 1992
    Coucou c'est nous !

    TV show Self

  13. 1992
    The Return of Casanova

    Movie Marcolina

  14. 1990
    Stars 90

    TV show Self

  15. 1989
    Elsa sous la neige

    Movie Self

  16. 1987
    Le monde est à vous

    TV show Self

  17. 1987
    Sacrée soirée

    TV show Self

  18. 1987
    Nulle part ailleurs

    TV show Self

  19. 1987
    Où que tu sois

    Movie Anne

  20. 1986
    The Woman of My Life

    Movie Eloïse

  21. 1985
    Red Kiss

    Movie Rosa

  22. 1982
    Champs-Elysées

    TV show Self

  23. 1981
    The Inquisitor

    Movie Camille

  24. 1977
    Fan School

    TV show Self