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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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2025
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Meurtres à Château-Thierry
Movie Laetitia Alfonsi
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2023
Je suis né à 17 ans
Movie Laurence
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2023
Six Women
TV show Eve
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2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
Un monde, un regard
TV show
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2020
Ici tout commence
TV show Clotilde Armand
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2019
Murder in Saint Omer
Movie Olivia Sysman
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2018
Her Word Against His
Movie Laura
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2016
Mon frère bien-aimé
Movie Barbara Bellefond
- 2014
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2013
Murders in...
TV show Astrid d'Armentière
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2013
Poor Richard!
Movie Amel
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2011
Block 66
Movie Hani
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2011
The Nights of Alice
Movie Alice
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2009
Aveugle mais pas trop
Movie Emma
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2008
Où es-tu ?
TV show Suzanne
- 2008
- 2005
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2005
Trois jours en juin
Movie Sylvie
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
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1998
Vivement dimanche
TV show Self
- 1998
- 1997
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1992
Coucou c'est nous !
TV show Self
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1992
The Return of Casanova
Movie Marcolina
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1990
Stars 90
TV show Self
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1989
Elsa sous la neige
Movie Self
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1987
Le monde est à vous
TV show Self
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1987
Sacrée soirée
TV show Self
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1987
Nulle part ailleurs
TV show Self
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1987
Où que tu sois
Movie Anne
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1986
The Woman of My Life
Movie Eloïse
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1985
Red Kiss
Movie Rosa
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1982
Champs-Elysées
TV show Self
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1981
The Inquisitor
Movie Camille
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1977
Fan School
TV show Self