Jenifer
Born: 1982-11-15 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jenifer Yaël Juliette Dadouche-Bartoli (born 15 November 1982), known by the mononym Jenifer, is a French singer and actress. Since winning the first season of Star Academy France in 2002, she has had a number of hit singles on the French, Belgian and Swiss charts. Jenifer Bartoli was raised with her younger brother Jonathan, by her mother and father, Michel Dadouche and Christine Bartoli. Her mother is part Corsican-Italian and part Belgian; her father is a Jewish Algerian. She comes from a modest background. She participated in the Graines de star television broadcast in 1997, but this was a failure. Jenifer decided to go to Paris and attend the casting for the first series of Star Academy France, which went on to become a huge hit on French television. She was selected, and eventually won. The hit single "J'attends l'amour" (I'm waiting for love) soon followed. After the tour with her band that followed her victory, she toured as a solo artist from October 2002 until January 2003, and eventually performed at the Paris Olympia, which she had dreamed of as a child. Her debut self-titled album went on to sell over three-quarters of a million copies. The album featured a song written by Marc Lavoine and a duet with fellow Star Academy student Mario. The second single "Au Soleil" became one of the "tubes de l'été" (Summer hits) of 2002 in France. The album was re-released later to include two new tracks: "Entre Humains" and "Des Mots Qui Résonnent". The latter became her third top ten single in France and Jenifer stated that it was more her style of music, being more pop/rock. Finally a fourth song, the ballad "Donne Moi Le Temps" was released. The re-released album sold over a million copies. In 2004 Jenifer returned onto the scene with her second, more personal, melancholy album "Le Passage". Among others, this album contained songs written by Calogero, Kyo, Tina Arena and one song Jenifer co-wrote. This album contains the singles "Ma Révolution" (My Revolution), "Le Souvenir De Ce Jour" (The Memory of This Day), "C'est De L'Or" (It's Golden) and "Serre Moi" (Hold me). The album was supported by an extensive tour across France and was followed by the release of a live album "Jenifer Fait Son Live" and an accompanying DVD. She has stated that she also wants to produce music in English outside France. In November 2010, Jenifer released her fourth studio album called "Appelle-moi Jen" (Call Me Jen), which charted at number 13 in France. It's a pop/rock-electronical album which has a 1980s French song lookalike. The first single of the album, "Je danse"(I Dance), was released in September 2010. This song was a hit in France and also in Belgium, rising to the 3rd position in the charts. In 2012, she is a The Voice's coach (with Florent Pagny, Garou and Mika) for TF1. In 2002, Jenifer met French musician and songwriter, Maxim Nucci in studio when she was working on her debut album, and they started dating soon after. On 5 December 2003, she gave birth to their son, Aaron at only 21. However, they called it quits in February 2008 after almost six years of dating. ... Source: Article "Jenifer (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2025
- Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
- Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés as Self (archive footage)
2024
2023
2022
- Drag Race France as Self - Guest Judge
2021
2020
2019
- Les Enfoirés 2019 - Le Monde des Enfoirés
- Time Is a Killer as Salomé Romani
- Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
- La Boîte à secrets as Self
- Les 40 ans de Starmania as Self
2018
- Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
- L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc as Self
- Bienvenue chez Aldebert as Self
- The Secret Song as Self
- Basique, le concert as Self
- Hunted as Sarah
- Soprano : le documentaire événement as Self
- Jenifer : Face à ma vie as Herself
- Jenifer - The singles collection
2017
- Don't Tell Her as Laura Brunel
- Enfoirés Kids
- Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2016
- Quotidien as Self - Guest
- Amanda as Self
- Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
- La Story Disney : La Magie Musicale as Self
2014
- Les Francis as Laetitia
- Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
- The Voice Kids as Coach Jenifer
2012
- The Voice : La Plus Belle Voix as Self - Coach
- Grégory Lemarchal - Cinq ans as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Star Academy - La saga des clips as Self
- Star Academy - La saga des clips (2) as Self
2005
2004
2003
2002
- Star Academy En concert as Self
2001
- Star Academy as Self
- Stars à domicile as Self
2000
- Who Wants to Win Millions? as Self - Contestant
1993
- Taratata as Self
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
1985
- Victoires de la musique as Self
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self