Julie Zenatti

Julie Zenatti was born into an Italian-Algerian family in Paris on February 5, 1981. Thanks to her father, an amateur pianist, she was immersed in a musical world and never hesitated to sing in public. It was thanks to this that she was spotted at the age of 13 in a vacation club karaoke bar. She soon signed a contract with EMI and recorded her first single, "Mon amie pour la vie", in 1994. The following year, she took part in the soundtrack of a cartoon, Princesse Starla et les Joyaux magiques. Introduced to Luc Plamondon in 1996, she was invited to audition for the musical Notre-Dame de Paris. Too young to take on the role of Esmeralda, she was cast as Fleur-de-Lys in 1998. Faced with the colossal success of the show, Julie Zenatti had to give up high school to devote herself to singing. The following year, she defended her role for a few months in Canada, before taking on that of Esmeralda in France, alternating with Hélène Ségara. She then went solo, opening her discography on Columbia with the album Fragile (2000), featuring collaborations with Zazie, Calogero, Passi and, above all, the single "Si je m'en sors", which reached number 12 in the French charts. Her career continued to go from strength to strength, with Dans les Yeux d'Un Autre (2002), Comme Vous... (2004), her best-selling album at number 12 in the French charts, La Boîte de Pandore (2007) and Plus de Diva (2010). In 2013, she surprised her public by releasing a five-track live piano-vocal EP entitled Quelque Part. She returned to the studio in 2015 with Blanc, followed by Méditerranéennes in 2017 and Refaire Danser les Fleurs and its namesake single in 2021. Her style has become more refined over the years, and her voice, which spans four octaves, also knows how to be gentle, as evidenced by her ninth album, Le Chemin, released in 2025.