Sofia Mestari (born 1980) is a French singer of Moroccan origin, at the age of ten she moved to Paris with her family. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Morocco (المغرب "al-Maghrib" officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية is a country located in North Africa
In 2000 she performed in the Eurovision Song Contest for France with the song On aura le ciel, which placed 23rd out of 24 with 5 points. " On Aura Le Ciel " ( English translation "We'll Have The Sky" was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, performed in
She released an album of the same name, with two singles, 'On aura le ciel' and 'Derrière les voiles', and 2003 saw the release of a new album 'En plein coeur de la nuit' and featured the single 'Ne pars pas'. 'Ne pars pas' spent 12 weeks on the France Top 40 chart and peaked at 27. [1]
Sofia's third album, entitled 'La vie en entier' is due to be released on 16th June 2008.
Sofia counts singers Tracy Chapman, Sting and Aretha Franklin amongst others as her idols. Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American Singer-songwriter, best known for her singles " Fast Car " " STING ( S equence T o and with' IN' G raphics is a free Web-based suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between protein sequence Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25 1942 Franklin has had a total of twenty number-one singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart, two of which became #1 hits on the
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