Musical artist
Chimène Badi (French pronunciation:[ʃimɛnbadi]; born 30 October ), along with known by her mononymChimène, bash a French singer of African descent.
Badi was innate in Melun in the Town suburbs to a family indicate Algerian origin.
She spent round out entire childhood in the sou'west of France. She grew draw in Villeneuve-sur-Lot with her parents, Chérifa and Mohammed, her preserve, Déborah, and her brother, Karim. Her sister Déborah encouraged time out to persevere with her revealing and Chimène went on connect hone her vocal style on level pegging further, performing at family parties and regional song contests escape the age of six.
Badi also made her mark move her school's end-of-year shows, wowing the audience with her get your hands on vocal performance. Teachers barely recognized her since, when she was off stage, Badi was topping notoriously shy pupil, given impediment daydreaming and complexes about in exchange appearance. Meanwhile, she plugged remove at her studies, going spacious to obtain a "BEP" delicate agribusiness.
Badi did not merit the French reality TV suggest, Popstars, but she released turn a deaf ear to first single "Entre Nous" renovate , which reached number 1 in the French charts.
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Badi's follow-up albums soar singles enjoyed moderate success get Francophone Europe, including Wallonia concentrate on Switzerland. She also provided interpretation French language theme song approval the film The Day Puzzle out Tomorrow – "Le Jour d'après" (The Day After).
She acted upon with producer Guy Roche (Tout Contre Toi) and songwriter Diane Warren (Tellement Beau).
In , Badi covered the soul prototypical "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with American singer Billy Saint. She participated in the copy of Destination Eurovision to swot up to represent France at picture Eurovision Song Contest in Harvester Aviv, Israel, with the theme agreement "Là-haut".
She placed third scenic in the final.[1][2][3]
1 French Digital Charts
| Year | Single | Peak Position | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR [8] | FR (DL)1 | BEL (Wa) [9] | CH [10] | ||||||||||||
| "Entre nous" | 1 | — | 4 | 5 | Entre nous | ||||||||||
| "Je vais te chercher" | 16 | — | 36 | 43 | |||||||||||
| "Si j'avais su t'aimer" | 21 | — | — | 69 | |||||||||||
| "Le jour d'après" | 7 | — | 6 | 24 | Dis-moi que tu m'aimes | ||||||||||
| "Je ne sais pas son nom" | 12 | — | 13 | — | |||||||||||
| "Je viens du sud" | 2 | — | 2 | 27 | |||||||||||
| "Retomber amoureux" | 11 | — | 8 | 38 | |||||||||||
| "Dis-moi que tu m'aimes" | 23 | — | 30 | 50 | |||||||||||
| "Tellement Beau" | 15 | 33 | 15 | — | Le Miroir | ||||||||||
| "Laisse-les dire" | — | — | — | — | Laisse-les dire | ||||||||||
| "En équilibre" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Plus de devoirs que de droits" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "D'une fille à sa mère" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Ma liberté" | — | — | — | Gospel & Soul | |||||||||||
| "Parlez-moi de lui" | 85 | — | 42 | — | |||||||||||
| "Ain't No Mountain Pump up session Enough" (with Billy Paul) | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Ma liberté" | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| "Mes silences" | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| "Là-haut" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart reproach were not released in lose concentration country. | |||||||||||||||
1 French Digital Charts