Husky and sassy Amandine Bourgeois (33) will represent France in Malmö 2013 with L'enfer et moi, a song written for her by David Salkin and Boris Bergman who returns to the Eurovision for the third time. She hopes to relaunch her career that started with a bang after she won La nouvelle Star in 2008 and delivered an album that sold gold in France and hit the charts also in other French speaking countries. This is the moment for the girl who studied flute and learned the profession singing in covers bands while dreaming a duet with Whitney Houston but ended up dueting with Scorpions in Still loving you instead and working with Amy Winehouse's team in London for her second album. She has already done Royal Albert Hall, soon she will rock Malmö Arena. Recently she also took part in the musical phenomenon of the year in France, Génération Goldman singing Jean Jacques Goldman's Au bout de mes rêves with Emmanuel Moire. Her other songs include Envie d'un manque des problèmes, Incognito, Sans amour and L'homme de la situation. And here's L'enfer et moi live.
France has been very good internally selecting their entries in Eurovision. Not maybe in sense that they have had great success (only La Kaas has reached the top-10 in the past ten years) but showcasing different styles and you never know what they will bring this time. In the period of early 1990's we had Joelle Ursull, Amina, Kali and Patrick Fiori bringing different kind of etno sounds to the contest, and then something totally different with Nina Morato. More traditional pop followed before some more etno with Dan Ar Braz. The big French ballad made a return in early 2000's but since mid 2000's France has been bringing something else every year. Big names even, but the success hasn't been maybe as good as they've expected but they keep experimenting. After Sebastian Teiller, Patricia Kaas, Jessy Matador, Amaury Vassili and Anggun we have again a different sound.... We have to go back nearly 20 years to find something remotely similar, the beforementioned Nina Morato. And once again France sticks out from the crowd...
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