Background
Jenifer Bartoli was raised with her younger brother Jonathan, by her mother and father, Michel Dadouche and Christine Bartoli. Her mother is part Corsican-Italian and part Belgian. Her father is a Jewish-Algerian.
Jenifer Bartoli was raised with her younger brother Jonathan, by her mother and father, Michel Dadouche and Christine Bartoli. Her mother is part Corsican-Italian and part Belgian. Her father is a Jewish-Algerian.
Since winning the first season of Star Academy France in 2002, she has had a number of hit singles on the French, Belgian and Swiss charts. She has sold more than 2 million albums, and all of her studio albums have gone platinum in France. She comes from a modest background.
She participated in the Graines de star television broadcast in 1997, but this was a failure.
Jenifer decided to go to Paris and attend the casting for the first series of Star Academy in France, which went on to become a huge hit on French television The hit single "J"attends L"amour" (I"m waiting for love) soon followed.
After the tour with her band that followed her victory, she toured as a solo artist from October 2002 until January 2003, and eventually performed at the Paris Olympia, which she had dreamed of as a child. Her debut self-titled album went on to sell over three quarters of a million copies.
The album featured a song written by Marc Lavoine and a duet with fellow Star Academy student Mario.
The second single "Au Soleil" became one of the "tubes de l"été" (Summer hits) of 2002 in France. The album was re-released later to include two new tracks: "Entre Humains" and "Des Mots Qui Résonnent." The latter became her third top ten single in France and Jenifer stated that it was more her style of music, being more popular/rock. Finally a fourth song, the ballad "Donne Moi Le Temps" was released.
The re-released album sold over a million copies.
In 2004 Jenifer returned onto the scene with her second, more personal, melancholy album "Le Passage". Among others, this album contained songs written by Calogero, Kyo, Tina Arena and one song Jenifer co-wrote.
The album was supported by an extensive tour across France and was followed by the release of a live album "Jenifer Fait Son Live" and an accompanying Digital Video Disc. She has stated that she also wants to produce music in English outside France. In November 2010, Jenifer released her fourth studio album called "Appelle-moi Jen" (Call Maine Jen), which charted at number 13 in France.
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The first single of the album, "Je danse"(I Dance), was released in September 2010. This song was a hit in France and also in Belgium, rising to the 3rd position in the charts. In 2012, she is a The Voice"s coach (with Florent Pagny, Garou and Mika (singer)) for TF1.
Jenifer lived with French musician Maxim Nucci for five years before splitting up in February 2008.
They have a son named Aaron (born 5 December 2003). She then dated singer-songwriter Pascal Obispo from February 2008 to February 2009, and a Corsican owner of a pizza restaurant Nicolas Ori from March 2009 to September 2012.
In early 2013, Jenifer met French actor Thierry Neuvic on the set of the film Les Francis. They started dating in July 2013.
On 13 August 2014, she gave birth to a boy named Joseph.
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