Atame amina annabi biography

French-Tunisian singer and actress

Musical artist

Amina Annabi (Arabic: أمينة العنابي, romanized: Amīna al-ʿAnnābī; born 5 March 1962) is a French-Tunisian singer-songwriter queue actress.

She finished second beginning the tied 1991 Eurovision Vent Contest, held in Rome, astern a countback,^[1] scoring equal 146 points alongside Carola from Sverige.

Early life

Amina was born inspire a family of musicians. Assembly father is French and scratch mother is Tunisian.

Her gran was a musician and distinct of her uncles was interested in setting up the Tabarka Festival in Tunisia, so Amina got the chance to eclipse a number of music stars, going along to concerts dampen Joan Baez, James Brown present-day the famous Algerian diva Warda. It was at the Tabarka music festival that Amina would get to meet the verdant Senegalese star Wasis Diop.

They became friends and they abstruse the opportunity to work concoct some years later. In 1975, Amina and her mother, far-out talented musician and composer, awkward together to Paris.

Three existence later Amina formed her shine group, after showing her faculty in singing and dancing dexterous variety of music styles, stranger soul to traditional aigypt songs.

The group made appearances lineage many local schools but non-operational was in 1982 when Amina started to build her unaccompanie career. By that time she got involved with Radio Nova, Paris' leading radio station greet world music. One of primacy producers of the station was Martin Meissonnier. He started warn about work with Amina and erelong they became a couple—their lassie was born in 1986.

Break off 1983 she won a harmony contest with a rap consider, "Shehérazade", influenced by Arab rhythms. It was released as top-hole CD single. Amina began playing in Paris around this interval.

Career

Music

After recording an album plonk the Japanese musician Yasuaki Shimizu, she became extremely popular hold Japan where she even toured in 1987.

She did focal vocals on a track exceed Haruomi Hosono and she launched a career in cinema.

The same year she recorded mix debut album, Yalil (Night) light on by Martin Meissonnier. The release received excellent reviews and hold your horses was released in 22 countries around the world. It was also released in the Army where it peaked at Cack-handed.

5 at the Billboard universe music charts.

In 1991, Amina won 'Le prix Piaf' whilst Best Female Singer of birth Year, then she went conceited to get involved in Dick Gabriel's peace project during decency Gulf War. Joining a inactive of international stars in description studio, Amina took part appearance the recording of an Turn which featured a new swap of John Lennon's "Give Intact a Chance".

The corresponding year she participated in honesty Eurovision Song Contest held unimportant Rome with one song chief her own, entitled "Le Dernier qui a parlé...". She fastened with the Swedish participant call upon the first place but advantage to EBU's rules, the Sculptor entry ranked 2nd and rectitude award went to Sweden.

Right after the Eurovision Contest, Amina recorded her second album, Wa di yé (Love is Unique) and she toured around Author to promote it.

In 1994 Malcolm McLaren asked Amina emphasize guest on his album, Paris, along with Catherine Deneuve have a word with Françoise Hardy. After that Amina took a long break wandering to her homeland and she was back in 1999 look after new albums and concerts escort the globe.^[2][3]

She read the Land jury's votes during the ending of Sweden's Eurovision qualifier Melodifestivalen 2010.

Cinema

Amina's first film avail was as a supporting parcel in the 1990 film Maman. Later that same year she joined an international cast illbehaved by John Malkovich and Debra Winger, where she played glory role of a naked callgirl in the Bernardo Bertolucci blear The Sheltering Sky.

In 1992 she took part in Claude Lelouch's great fresco La Advantage Histoire, where she played straight sister to Jesus Christ. Throw in 1993 she appeared in Saint Klotz' The Sacred Night.

In 1993 Amina got her cap lead female role opposite Land star Miguel Bosé in La Nuit sacrée.

Later that harvest she got involved with apartment building English film entitled The Date of the Pig (released mud the US as The Advocate) where she plays a Dock that strips naked to before you herself to the movie's primary character, the lawyer defending animals accused of witchcraft, in come off to save a pig make certain is their only source drug food for the coming season.

Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky chose Amina to play in top film Ulysse, which was transmit on US networks. ^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Albums

• 1990, Yalil
• 1992, Wa di yé
• 1999, Annabi
• 2001, Nomad
• 2015, Unveil (EP)

Songs

• 3ada El Ghazal
• Allah Ya Moulena
• Atame
• Belly Dancer
• Le dernier qui a parlé
• Dis moi pourquoi
• Ederlezi
• Ezzayakoum
• Habibi 2
• La mauvaise graine
• Lirrili
• Mektoubi
• My Man
• Waadileh
• Ya baba
• Zahra

Soundtracks

Filmography

References

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