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Oh Maman !
"Oh Maman !" () is a song by French singer Lissandro, released as a single on 28 October 2022. It was France's winning entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Lissandro, aged 13 at the time, won the competition with a total of 203 points, 23 points ahead of second-placed Armenia, earning France its second overall victory at the contest. Composition The song was written by (music and lyrics) and Barbara Pravi (lyrics). Junior Eurovision Song Contest Selection, announcement and release On 28 October 2022, France Télévisions announced having selected Lissandro with a song titled "Oh Maman !" to represent France at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest that would be held in Yerevan, Armenia, on 11 December. On the same day, the song was released as a single. The accompanying music video was unveiled on November 6. Victory On 11 December, Lissandro won the Junior Eurovision with a total of 203 points, 23 points ahead of second-placed Armenia and 42 points ahead of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lissandro
Lissandro Formica (born 2 October 2009), known mononymously as Lissandro, is a French singer best known for winning the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "". Previously, in 2020, he reached the final of the seventh season of the French version of ''The Voice Kids''. Career Lissandro showed an early interest in music after his father introduced him to the work of Elvis Presley, resulting in the nickname Elvissandro. He was discovered by singer Marina D'Amico, and his parents enrolled him in D'Amico's singing school. He participated in the seventh season of ''The Voice Kids'', where he reached the finals. In the blind auditions, he sang " Too Much" by Elvis Presley, and all four judges turned their seats for him. He is also a voice actor and has done French dubbing for several series. Junior Eurovision Song Contest On 28 October 2022, France Télévisions announced Lissandro would represent France at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 that would held i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Music
Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children. In European-influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment and educational functions. Children's music is often designed to provide an entertaining means of teaching children about their culture, other cultures, good behavior, facts and skills. Many are folk songs, but there is a whole genre of educational music that has become increasingly popular. History Early published music Class singing became compulsory in England with the passing of the Elementary Education Act 1870, Education Act (1870). By the early 1900s, demand for choral works for educational use had resulted in more than 50 school operettas in the catalogue of Vincent Novello, Novello, England's leading publisher of educational music. These were mostly modelled on the tuneful, humorous and morally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s. The label achieved success in the 1970s through the 1980s, often by acquiring other record labels, from ABC to Motown to Geffen. MCA Inc. became Universal Studios, Inc., in 1996, and the MCA record label was folded into Universal Music Group's Geffen Records in 2003, but Universal's MCA Nashville use the moniker. History Background The U.S. arm of Britain's Decca Records was established in New York in 1934 In 1937, the owner of Decca, Edward R. Lewis, chose to split off the UK Decca company from the U.S. company (keeping his U.S. Decca holdings), fearing the financial damage that would arise for UK Companies if the emerging hostilities of Nazi Germany should lead to war – correctly foreseeing World War II. Lewis sold the remainder of his American Decca holdings when war did break out. U.S.-based Decca Records ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Pravi
Barbara Piévic (born 10 April 1993), known professionally as Barbara Pravi, is a French singer, songwriter, and actress. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "", securing second place, the best result for France since 1991. Her debut album '' On n'enferme pas les oiseaux'' was released on 27 August 2021. As a songwriter, Pravi has written songs for a number of artists, including Yannick Noah, Julie Zenatti, Chimène Badi, Kylie Minogue and Jaden Smith. She additionally composed for Valentina and Lissandro, winners of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. She also notably starred in Claude Lelouch's "Finalement". Early life Barbara Piévic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Барбара Пјевић, Barbara Pjević) was born in Paris on 10 April 1993. Her family primarily consists of artists and musicians. Pravi's father is of Serbian and Moroccan Jewish descent, while her mother is of Polish Jewish and Iranians in France, Iranian origin. She was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single (music)
In Music industry, music, a single is a type of Art release#Music, release of a song Sound recording, recording of fewer tracks than an album (LP record, LP), typically one or two tracks. A single can be released for record sales, sale to the public in a variety of physical or digital formats. Singles may be standalone tracks or connected to an artist's album, and in the latter case would often have at least one single release before the album itself, called lead singles. The single was defined in the mid-20th century with the ''45'' (named after its speed in revolutions per minute), a type of 7-inch sized vinyl records, vinyl record containing an A-side and B-side, A-side and a B-side, i.e. one song on each side. The single format was highly influential in pop music and the early days of rock and roll, and it was the format used for jukeboxes and preferred by younger populations in the 1950s and 1960s. Singles in Digital distribution, digital form became very popular in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was the 20th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Public Television Company of Armenia (AMPTV). The contest took place on 11 December 2022 at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, following the country's victory at the with the song "" by Maléna. This was the second time that Armenia hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the first being in . Sixteen countries participated in the contest. The returned after a sixteen-year absence, while , , and did not take part after participating in the previous edition. 's Lissandro was the winner of the contest with the song "". This was France's second victory in the contest, having last won in . Host country , , and the completed the top five, with this being the highest placement for Ireland to date. Meanwhile, achieved their lowest placing to date. Location The con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Télévisions
France Télévisions (; stylized since 2018 as ) is the French national public television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 4 (formerly Festival), France 5 (formerly La Cinquième) and France Info. France Télévisions is currently funded by the French Treasury and the revenue from commercial advertising. The new law on public broadcasting will phase out commercial advertising on the public television channels (at first in the evening, then gradually throughout the day). France Télévisions is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has selected HbbTV for it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BFM TV
BFM TV (, stylized as BFMTV) is a French news broadcast television and radio network, wholly owned by RMC BFM. The flagship property of the RMC BFM division of CMA CGM, its headquarters are located in Paris. As the country's most-watched news channel with 10 million daily viewers, BFM TV "boasts a market share in France that is greater than any equivalent news channel around the world". A BBC News commentator considered its economic coverage "clearly pro-business, pro-reform, and anti the old consensus", which is noteworthy because in France, "economic coverage tends to come from the opposite perspective—the state sector and workers taking precedence over private enterprise". History BFMTV was launched by the NextRadioTV group (now RMC BFM) as an offshoot of BFM Business, which exclusively focused on business and the economy, on 14 December 2004. BFM is an abbreviation of "Business FM", the original name of BFM Business. Approved by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina (French Singer)
Valentina Tronel (born 6 April 2009), known mononymously as Valentina, is a French singer. She rose to prominence after she won Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020, becoming the first French entrant to win the contest. Previously, in 2016, she took part in the French version of ''The Voice Kids''. Between 2018 and 2021, she was part of the child pop group Kids United . Early life Valentina was born in Rennes, the capital of Brittany, northwestern France, and lives in Thorigné-Fouillard. She has an older brother. Her mother is an Italian-language teacher and her father is a real estate agent. From her early childhood, Valentina was "surrounded by music"; she said; "I grew up in a family where everyone sang: my mother angin bars, my father idMichael Jackson impressions. ..Music has always been part of my life." She said she was probably two and a half when she sang her first song. Her mother sang her to sleep with Italian songs and the first songs Valentina sang were Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J'imagine
"J'imagine" (, ) is a song by French singer Valentina, released as a single on 16 October 2020. The song's lyrics were inspired by the isolation and separation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. "J'imagine" was France's winning entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020. Valentina, aged 11 at the time, won the competition with a total of 200 points, 48 points ahead of second-placed Kazakhstan, earning France its first victory at the contest. Composition The song was written by Igit and Barbara Pravi, who also wrote France's entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, "". Pravi would later represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "". The head of the French delegation to the 2020 Junior Eurovision, Alexandra Redde-Amiel, described "J'imagine" as "a sparkling, very positive song that will allow us to imagine ourselves in a world of tomorrow full of joy and life". Its lyrics deal with the isolation and separation caused by measures due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs In French
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections that are repeated or performed with variation later. A song without instruments is said to be a cappella. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in the classical tradition, it is called an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally by ear are often referred to as folk songs. Songs composed for the mass market, designed to be sung by professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows, are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
