I was flicking through the TV and came across a concert of some sort being performed next to the Eiffel tower. Very catch song which to my ears had the word “Libra/Livra” repeated a lot.
Here’s a pic of her
http://members.rogers.com/wooba/french.jpg
Thanks
It wouldn’t be Zazie would it? She’s 38-39… how old did the chick on TV look? I’m not familiar with french singers - this came from Googling and clicking the first female french singer that came up…
Could it be Natasha St-Pier? Her hair (on your link) is longer than on the pics you get from googling her. She is probably the most popular singer in France (she is Canadian).
I’m absolutely clueless. I should have snapped a better picture, but it’s too late now.
The performance was live on a stage right next to the eiffel tower. Immediately after her was Tina Charles performing “I Love To Love” if that helps jog anyones memory. The song was upbeat, kinda dancey.
Do either of the singers listed have a song that has the word Libra or Livre repeated often in the chorus?
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I’m unfamiliar with the face appearing on the picture you provided. But then, since I essentially never watch TV, I’m unfamiliar with the face of most singers, even well known ones. I googles and googled, searching for some concert which could have been organized recently close to the Eiffel tower recently and including Tina Charles, but couldn’t find anything.
The only hints I got were references to a “tribute to the funk” tour which was organized in June 2003 in Paris, Lyon and Marseilles, but I couldn’t find where it took place in Paris nor whose artists were present. The most detailled list I came up with was the following, it’s not even complete, and I’ve no clue who are the singers/bands listed :
5/6/7 juin 2003 TRIBUTE TO THE FUNK TOUR 2003 The living legends of FUNK live at MARSEILLE (5), LYON (6) et PARIS (7). Jocelyn BROWN, James “D TRAIN” WILLIAMS, Oliver CHETHEAM, ANita WARD, FAT LARRY’s BAND, Jerome PRISTER, DELEGATION, IMAGINATION, SHALAMAR, BOULE NOIRE, Tina CHARLES, PASADENAS, Pino D’ANGIO, B.B. & Q BAND/CHANGE, SIDNEY…
I doubt it will help…
The performance was probably the Fete de la musique, 21st June, Paris. I remember seeing Tina Charles, but that’s when we switched on the TV so I just missed the singer you’re looking for. Perhaps this can help you googling. Good luck.
It happens that out of sheer luck, I went out a couple hours ago and saw an advert on a wall for a concert with a picture of the female singer (that I didn’t know), who looked somehow like the woman on the picture you provided. I thought about checking again your picture, but since I couldn’t really compare them, and more importantly since I thought it would have been an incredible coincidence, I just didn’t bother.
Now, reading the previous post, I checked the concerts organized on the “Champ de Mars” (that’s near the Eiffel Tower) in Paris by the TV broadcaster “France 2” for the “fete de la musique”. And…this artist was listed ! So, it might be her. Her name is “Alizee”. You can try to google her name for pictures, there are quite a lot of them around
this one, for instance or this one
. She doesn’t look exactly like the woman on your picture (shorter hair, she seems thiner) but some facial features like eyebrows, the hair color, etc…, are the same.
Two other female artists who were present during this concert are Zazie and Natasha St Pier (but I didn’t find the complete list of performers). So, you might want to search for pictures of these two and compare them with the one you provided. I didn’t.
In case it would be “alizee”, I don’t know what she could have been singing (As I wrote before, I didn’t know about her until today), but I found a link to a site with the lyrics of several of her songs. Honestly I didn’t bother reading them all (and I don’t know if the list is really comprehensive), since I was bored very quickly.
Here’s a link if you want to check by yourself. I doubt she was using the words “libra” or “livra” because they don’t exist in french. But it could be “libre” (free) or “vivre” (to live) or even “vivre libre”. A total wild guess, of course…
Well…I found a more complete list of the artists who were present : Robbie Williams, Eros Ramazzotti, Patrick Bruel, Simply Red, Zazie, Laurent Voulzy, Marc Lavoine, Natasha St-Pier, Pascal Obispo, Vincent Delerm, Serge Lama, Lorie, Alizée, Julie Zenatti, L5, Jean Roch, The booming people, Chimène Badi, Leslie, Gomez et Dubois, Cédric Atlan, Frédéric Lerner…
As you can notice, Tina charles isn’t listed, but I found another reference to this event stating that Norah Jones was present, and Norah Jones isn’t listed above, either. Beside, there aren’t that much concerts organized at the “Champ de Mars” (Eiffel Tower), so it’s probably this one (assuming that what you saw was a recent concert…but apparently Tina Charles was present in France in June).
Hope this help…now, concerning the song…I’ve no clue…I’ve tried to find some more infos but didn’t find anything and I’m fed up right now. Beside, I’m not even sure the singer was actually “alizee”.
How, well…just in case I checked the pictures of some other artists present , and “zazie” also looks somehow like your picture (long reddish hair).
Here’s a (small) picture. Here are the lyrics of many of her songs (I didn’t check out these things) and finally here more pictures of her from a fan site (by the way, looking at the “photos sur scene” (“on stage pictures”) , she seems to dress in a very sexy way on stage (I actually mean she doesn’t wear much)
Let’s go on…Try also to check Natasha St-Pier. here’s a site about her, and here is her official site.
(Am I unable to tell faces apart or are female singers all looking alike??? 
) . Fortunately, Lorie, Julie Zenatti, Chimene Badi and Leslie seem to look differently…But you might want to check out, just in case…
And I was unable to find the complete programm of this event…
I’m pretty sure it isn’t Alizee … she had a huge hit last year (can’t remember what it was called) and her video was constantly on the music channels … she is very young and bears no resemblance to the OP’s pic.
Probably one of the others you suggest tho’ …
Julie
I dunno, none of those pics match the fishlips in the original.
Thank you for your help. Especially to clairobscur for going into so much detail. I’m 99.9% sure it’s not Alizee… I bought her single “Moi Lolita” last year and have seen the video many times… I would have recognized her right away…
I’ll have to go through your list and see if I can come up with anything.
Do you know a usenet newsgroup that a lot of French music fans read by chance?
As for the word, I had a feeling I was wrong about the word… I think Libre is the right one, but my French isn’t good enough for me to say for sure…
