''Elsa'' is the debut album of the French singer

Elsa Lunghini Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa (born 20 May 1973), is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts, with the single " T'en va pas", and sh ...

, released in 1988.

Background and critical reception

After the success of her first two singles, "

T'en va pas "T'en va pas" (Eng. "Don't Go Away") is a 1986 song recorded by the French artist Elsa Lunghini. Released as a single on 12 October 1986, this song, her debut single, was the soundtrack of the 1986 movie ''La Femme de ma vie''. It was a smash hit ...

", which peaked at #1 for eight weeks on the official singles chart (Top 50), and "

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", #2 hit, Elsa decided to release her first album. In it, there are collaborations with

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, Élisabeth Anaïs for texts, and her father (Georges Lunghini) for compositions. Georges also co-signed ten of the eleven songs on the album. In the French TV program ''Sacrée Soirée'' compered by

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, Elsa met

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, which generated the duet " Un Roman d'amitié (Friend Give Me a Reason)". It was the next single from the album. Once again, it was a success, reaching #1 on the Top 50 for six weeks during 1988 summer. Thereafter, Elsa also released three other singles on this album, which were all ranked in the top ten on the singles chart. This debut album was very successful. In addition to the huge sales of the singles, it was certified

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by the SNEP, the French certifier, for more than 600,000 sales in France.Elsa's certification
Chartsinfrance.net
(Retrieved June 1, 2008) Elsa's first single, "

", was not included in this album. The song "Nostalgia cinema" is a reference to the Italian origins of her father.

Track listing

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participated in the background vocals.

Album credits

Personnel

* Claude Salmiéri -

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* Yves Sanna - drums *

Kamil Rustam Kamil Rustam is an American guitarist, composer, arranger, songwriter and producer whose musical career has made known as a prolific musician in many different styles. Rustam was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and moved at an early age to Pa ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

Bernard Paganotti Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

Jannick Top Jannick "Janik" Top is a French bass player and composer, born in Marseille. Top plays the electric bass and the cello. In the 1970s, he was a lead member of the influential zeuhl band Magma, along with Christian Vander and Didier Lockwood. Fr ...

- bass guitar *

Michel Gaucher Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...

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* Vincent-Marie Bouvot -

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- keyboards * Catherine Bonnevay -

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("Mon cadeau" & "Celui qui viendra") * Francine Chantereau - backing vocals ("Mon cadeau" & "Celui qui viendra")

Production

Arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

- Vincent-Marie Bouvot, Raymond Donnez * Produced by Vincent-Marie Bouvot & Georges Lunghini * Engineered by Bruno Lambert, Jean Lamoot & Hervé Le Coz *Assistant engineer - Manuela * Mixed by Bruno Lambert *Mixed by Claude Grillis ("Mon cadeau", "Jimmy voyage", "Le rôle de sa vie" & "Celui qui viendra")

Design

* Georges Lunghini -

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* Claude Caudron -

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Charts, certifications and sales

References

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