Houcine Camara

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Houcine
Birth name	Houcine Camara
Born	(1980-08-19) 19 August 1980
Origin	Nancy, France
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Mercury
Associated acts	Star Academy 2

Houcine Camara or just Houcine (born in Nancy on 19 August 1980) is a French singer.

Biography

He was born in a musical family. His father was a singer, who for 10 years had also directed "Le palais des danses africaines de Nancy". His mother was an artist designer of oriental fashion. At 6, he studied at the Nancy Conservatory where he learned to play the piano and violin. He also practiced sports, notably soccer. At 15, he composed music on the piano and at 16 formed a groove band with his brother and performed at various public occasions.

Houcine auditioned for second edition of French TV reality show Star Academy where he was a finalist.

His first single, "Être un homme comme vous" was used on the soundtrack of the movie The Jungle Book 2, and became a successful record in France, Belgium-Wallonia, and Switzerland, where it became a top ten hit.^[1] Houcine has two sons, Lenny and Noah.

Discography

Singles

2003 : "Être un homme comme vous" – #3 in Belgium, #6 in France, #9 in Switzerland
2003 : "Ce que tu veux de moi" – #72 in France
2004 : "Donne-moi du temps" – #64 in France

References

↑ Houcine's discography and peak positions Lescharts.com (Retrieved 6 April 2009)

v t e Star Academy France

Host	Nikos Aliagas Matthieu Delormeau

Winners	Jenifer Bartoli (2001) Nolwenn Leroy (2002) Élodie Frégé (2003) Grégory Lemarchal (2004) Magalie Vaé (2005) Cyril Cinélu (2006) Quentin Mosimann (2007) Mickels Réa (2008) Laurène Bourvon (2013)

Other notable contestants	Mario Barravecchia (2001) Jean-Pascal Lacoste (2001) Olivia Ruiz (2001) Houcine (2002) Georges-Alain Jones (2002) Jérémy Chatelain (2002) Emma Daumas (2002) Morganne Matis (2003) Michał Kwiatkowski (2003) Sofia Essaïdi (2003)

Singles	"La Musique (Angelica)" (2001) "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (2002) "Paris Latino" (2002) "La Bamba" (2003) "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" (2003) "L'Orange" (2003) "Laissez-moi danser" (2004) "Adieu monsieur le professeur" (2004) "Santiano" (2005) "Parce qu'on vient de loin" (2012)

Persondata
Name	Camara, Houcine
Alternative names
Short description	French singer
Date of birth	1980-08-19
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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