ZHOKOTE Alize (Alizee Jocotey)

Her favorite cuisine: Asian. And also she is a big sweet-tooth.
Her favorite actors: Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.
Her favorite sporstmena: Zinedine Zidane.
Her libimye performers: Johnny Hallyday, Mylene Farmer and Lara Fabian.
Her favorite animal: dolphin.
Her astrological sign: Leo.
Her favorite color: purple.

Alize Zhokote (Alizee Jocotey) was born August 21, 1984, Mr.. in Ajaccio (Ajaccio) in the south of France, Corsica. She - the second child in the family. She has brown hair and blue eyes.

As a child Alize attended singing lessons and performing arts,
studied dance. These hobbies have laid the foundations for its future creative career. In 1995. the age of 11 Alize won a drawing contest, held in the Maldives. Her paintings were even painted a plane!

In December 1999,. Alize appeared in the television show Graines de Star, unwinding young talents, with an English song, but not passed qualifying round. A month Alize came again, this time with the song of the famous French singer Axel Red (Axelle Red) called My prayer (Ma priere), and this time the competition was. Moreover, it is this song allowed Alize at the final transfer to win the nomination young singer (Graine de chanteuse)!

With this statement Alize noticed Mylene Farmer (Mylene Farmer) and Laurent Bouton (Laurent Boutonnat). It was they who took up a career promotion Alize. Already 19 May 2000, Mr.. released her first single - Ya.. Lolita (Moi... Lolita). And in the summer - July 26, 2000. - Came out and the first clip Moi ... Lolita, telling about his dreams of a country girl to be in the city.

The calculation proved to be accurate, but on this success could not even conceive of its organizers. Single almost six months stayed in the top ten sales as a result has sold over a million copies - to such a result still falls short of even the most popular performers. What's most important - Alize is not locked within France, its single quickly became popular in the rental stations of different countries - Japan, Canada, Russia ... November 17, 2000, Mr.. Alize gets his first professional music award - the prize in the category Discovery of the Year prizes at the French television channel M6. And up to 2000. - 20 January 2001. She was awarded the Prize of the French popular music radio station NRJ in the same category Discovery of the Year. Alize became famous overnight :-)

Meanwhile, the active work in the studio ended with the release of their debut album Goodies (Gourmandises) 28 November 2000, Mr.. The album, entirely written by the same duo Farmer-button, a pretty solid and complete with a beautiful vocal Alize and very entertaining texts - essentially, sketches, sketches from the life of a young girl and descriptions of her dreams. Very easy youth musical style and the clear dance hits (such as Veni Vedi Vici and Gourmandises) guaranteed the popularity of the album not only in France.

At the same time (November 28, 2000) to support the album was released the second single - L'Alize. He certainly was in the shadow of the album, and because his sales were not as successful, but self-titled clip (director - Pierre Steen), released on TV on Dec. 6, 2000, contributed significantly to promote the album. Itself, clip rather unsophisticated, it is shown laughing Alize surrounded by soap bubbles.

Much more interesting is the single Parler tout bas, released on April 24, 2001, Mr.. Not only that was first released a single on a slow lyrical song, but in a remarkable clip (which appeared on TV a day later), again shot by Laurent Bouton. It is a mixed story about a child growing up and parting with childhood illusions ...

Meanwhile, foreign popularity Alize was translated into reality. In May 2001,. regional offices of Universal Music in Japan, Israel, the Netherlands released a localized version of the album Gourmandises; began to appear first publication of Alize and Russia. April 17, 2001, Mr.. radio Europa Plus a telephone interview with the Alize, and 1.2 in June 2001 g.Alize first visit to Russia! She arrived in Moscow on June 1, 2001, and June 2, 2001, Mr.. spoke at the awards ceremony Stopudoviy hit from Hit-FM radio and the press conference devoted to this event, and also gave an interview on MTV-Russia (aired June 3, 2001).

Alize loves Spanish dance, tap and jazz. Favorite singers - Johnny Holliday (Johnny Hallyday) and Lara Fabian (Lara Fabian). Among the movie stars Alize loves Brad Pitt (Brad Pitt) and Julia Roberts (Julia Roberts). Very Alize dreams to play in a musical comedy. The girl has a wonderful voice and great plasticity. According to Alize, she already has a young man living in Corsica.

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