Camélia Jordana | |
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 Camélia Jordana. Festival Face & Si. 2011. | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Camélia Jordana Aliouane[1] (1992-09-15)15 September 1992 (age 33) Toulon, France |
| Genres | French pop,chanson,Folk pop |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | Sony Music France |
| Website | www.cameliajordana.fr |
Camélia Jordana Aliouane (born 15 September 1992) is a French pop singer. She rose to fame after participating in the television showNouvelle Star, the French version ofPop Idol, in 2009, where she placedplaced 3rd. Since 2013 she has appeared in leading roles in a number of French films.
Jordana was born on 15 September 1992 inToulon, to French parents of Algerian descent. Her father Hachemi is ofBerber Kabyle origin and her mother Zélihka anArab fromOran.[2][3][4] She grew up inLa Londe-les-Maures[5] with her older sister and younger brother.[2]
At the age of sixteen, she decided to audition forthe seventh season ofNouvelle Star inMarseille, and managed to convince the jury with her version ofLouis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World".[6] She finished in third place. After her elimination, she signed a record deal withSony Music and released her eponymous debut album on 29 March 2010. It sold 10,169 copies in its first week and managed to enter theFrench SNEP Album Chart at #9.[7]
Although Jordana's debut single "Non Non Non (Écouter Barbara)" was only released as download single in France, it peaked at #3 on the French digital chart. It also charted at #3 in Belgium and #48 in Switzerland.
She participated in a song for the albumSo in Love byNouvelle Star judgeAndré Manoukian in April 2010.
Jordana was interviewed and played several songs on theTV5Monde programmeAcoustic on 7 November 2010.
She was on the jury of theSemaine de la Critique section at the2021 Cannes Film Festival.[8]
She featured onEmel's albumMRA (2024), singing on "Mazel".[9]
On 27 November 2015, Jordana participated together withNolwenn Leroy andYael Naim at the national memorial day for the victims of theNovember 2015 Paris attacks singing the song “Quand on n'a que l'amour” byJacques Brel.[10]
In June 2024, Jordana signed a petition addressed to French PresidentEmmanuel Macron demanding France to officially recognize theState of Palestine.[11]
As a presentation of her new double album,Facile x fragile, she toldL'Obs that "white men" are, in the collective unconscious, responsible for all the evils of the earth.[12] TheInternational League against Racism and Anti-Semitism denounces this declaration, which it considers "unconscious".[13]
| Year | Album | Peak Position | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR [14] | BEL (Wa) [14] | CH [14] | ||
| 2010 | Camélia Jordana | 7 | 12 | 36 |
| 2014 | Dans la peau | 15 | 29 | 70 |
| 2018 | LOST | 133 | — | — |
| 2021 | facile x fragile | 3 | 25 | — |
| Sorøre (withAmel Bent andVitaa) | 13 | 13 | 46 | |
| Year | Single | Peak Position | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR[15] | FR (Downloads) | BEL (Wa)[16] | CH[17] | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | "Non Non Non (Écouter Barbara)" | — | 3 | 3 | 48 | Camélia Jordana | |||||||||
| "Calamity Jane" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| 2011 | "Moi c'est" | — | 35 | — | — | ||||||||||
| 2014 | "Dans la peau" | 95 | — | — | — | Dans la peau | |||||||||
| 2021 | "Ma sœur" (withAmel Bent andVitaa) | 159 | — | — | — | Sorøre | |||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||||||||||||||
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Stroller Strategy | Mélanie | Clément Michel | |
| Ta main | Natasha | Thomas Bardinet | Short | |
| Les mauvaises têtes | Fanny | Pierre Isoard | TV movie | |
| 2014 | Bird People | Leila | Pascale Ferran | |
| 2015 | All Three of Us | Maryam | Kheiron | |
| I'm All Yours | Kenza | Baya Kasmi | ||
| L'heureuse élue | Djemila | Karima Gherdaoui & Anne Voutey | Short | |
| The Last Panthers | Samira | Johan Renck | TV Mini-Series | |
| 2016 | La fine équipe | Salima | Magaly Richard-Serrano | |
| 2017 | Some Like It Veiled | Leila | Sou Abadi | |
| Le Brio | Neïla Salah | Yvan Attal | César Award for Most Promising Actress Nominated –Lumière Award for Best Female Revelation | |
| 2018 | Chacun pour tous | Julia | Vianney Lebasque | |
| Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse | Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman | Bob Persichetti,Peter Ramsey,Rodney Rothman | European French dubbed version | |
| 2019 | Curiosa | Zohra Ben Brahim | Lou Jeunet | |
| Sisters in Arms | Kenza | Caroline Fourest | ||
| La nuit venue | Naomi | Frédéric Farrucci | ||
| 2020 | Love Affair(s) | Daphné | Emmanuel Mouret | Lumière Award for Best Film 2021 |
| 2024 | Silent Storms | Dania Reymond-Boughenou |
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