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Contents 1 Biography 2 Links about Nolwenn 2.1 Websites 2.2 Forums

Biography

Nolwenn Leroy was born in St-Renan, Britany, France, on September 28, 1982. She has now become one of the most famous French singers.

When she was 4 years old, Nolwenn left Saint-Renan to live first in Paris, then in Lille, and came back to Brittany where her family set up base in Guingamp in 1990, where her little sister Kay was born. In 1992, her father, Jean-Luc Le Maguerresse, a professional soccer player, left the family home. After having moved out several times, due to problems with her mother's job, she went to live with her sister and her mother in her grandparents' house in St-Yorre, in 1993.

Nolwenn attended the Celestins secondary school in Vichy, and in year 8, her music teacher detected her skills for music. Following her advice, Nolwenn started to learn how to play the violin.

In July 1998, The Rotary Club of Vichy chose her, and offered a grant for her to study as an exchange student in the United States in Cincinnati in Ohio. She stayed a full year there during which she attended a two-day workshop in the Hamilton High School, a Performing Arts School. When she came back to France, she spoke fluent English, and decide to attend classical singing lessons in the Vichy conservatory.

In 2001, she enrolled in the University of Law of Clermont Ferrand in the pursuit of a carreer in Diplomatic matters in case things did not work out in the music field.

Watching the first edition of Star Academy, a French TV show similar to Pop Idol, Nolwenn became fascinated by Armande Altaï, a singing teacher. She decided to enroll in her class. To pay her tuitions and travel expenses to Paris, she worked on the weekends as a cashier in a supermarket.

While she hesitated to send her tape for the Star Academy auditions, her mother convinced her to do so along with the auditions for a French musical "Gone with the wind". Quite ironically, she was selected for both but chose to become a candidate for Star Academy without letting Armande know. Her participation to the TV show allowed her to become very popular in France: the French public chose her on December 21, 2002 as the winner of Star académy.

On March 2003, her first album untitled Nolwenn was released and is a best seller (more than 700,000 copies sold in France). Her first single Cassé also met with a tremendous success. Three other tracks from this album were also released Suivre une étoile written by the famous French song-writer and artist Laurent Voulzy, 'Une femme cachée' by Daniel Lavoie, and Inévitablement whose lyrics were written by Lara Fabian herself. On December 6, 2003, Nolwenn Leroy started her tour throughout France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Her second album produced by Laurent Voulzy is scheduled in September 2005. In the meantime, her first album has been released in Quebec, Canada, with a bonus track Le dernier mot written by Dany Bédar. This song is also available on the compilation CD DÉJÀ Musique: Succès Vol.1 Pour la passion, where she sings a song by Murray Head: Say it ain't so Joe.

Links about Nolwenn

Websites

• http://www.nolwenn.org (official website)
• http://nolwenn-officiel.artistes.universalmusic.fr/ (record company official website)
• http://www.nolwennleroy.com
• http://www.divine-nolwenn.com
• http://www.nolwenn-online.com
• http://perso.wanadoo.fr/toutnolwennleroy/
• http://nolweb.net
• http://www.nolwenn-site.org
• http://www.nolwennleroy-etoile.com
• http://www.nolwennleroy1.fr.st
• http://www.nolwennleroy-video.com
• http://nolwennleroy-etoile.blogspot.com/

Forums

• http://forum.nolwenn.org/
• http://www.nolwennleroy.com/forum/
• http://www.forum-divinenolwenn.com/
• http://forum.aceboard.net/?login=35538
• http://195.140.142.115/forumnol/index.php (nolwenn-online.com forum)
• http://forum.nolweb.net
• http://22540.aceboard.fr
• http://tinkerbellnono.forumactif.com/
• http://www.nolwennleroy-online.com (la Communauté des Fans)
• http://nolwennjetaime.forumactif.com

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