Luce (singer)

Luce
Luce in 2011
Background information
Birth name	Lucie Brunet
Born	(1990-01-28) 28 January 1990
Origin	Perpignan, France
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer, Actress
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2010–present
Labels	Sony Music (2010/13) Tôt ou tard (2014-present)
Website	Official Site

Lucie Brunet (born 28 January 1990), better known by the stage name Luce, is a French singer-songwriter and actress originating from Peyrestortes.^[1] She won the eighth series of the French music competition Nouvelle Star in 2010.

Early life

Luce was born in Perpignan^[2] and studied nursing in Montpellier. She also practiced the flute following courses at the Conservatory of dramatic art between 2008 and 2009.^[3]

Career

Nouvelle Star

She auditioned for Nouvelle Star (French Idol series) in Marseille where she sang Rita Mitsouko's "Andy" passing in the category Les Inoubliables wearing a moustache and an electronic badge saying "I love hairs." She received three yeses and a notable no from judge Philippe Manœuvre. Moving to the second phase at théâtre in Trianon, she interpreted "Tainted Love", a capella, and in a trio with Lussi et Stéphanie, she sang "Je dois m'en aller" from Niagara. She also sang "C'est comme ça" from Rita Mitsouko. She was chosen for the live show. She had great support from many people including a 90-year-old Jordi Barre who was invited to congratulate her when she won on 23 June 2010.

Appearances during Nouvelle Star

Solo

Date	Song	Original artist	Notes
14 April 2010 (1st prime)	"Qui de nous deux"	-M- (Matthieu Chedid)	4 blues
21 April 2010 (2nd prime)	"Dream a Little Dream of Me"	The Mamas and The Papas	4 blues
28 April 2010 (3rd prime)	"Étienne"	Guesch Patti	4 blues
5 Mai 2010 (4th prime)	"Beautiful"	Christina Aguilera	3 blues
13 May 2010 (5th prime)	"Louxor j'adore"	Philippe Katerine	3 blues
19 May 2010 (6th prime)	"Les sucettes"	France Gall	4 blues
	"Tainted Love"	Gloria Jones	4 blues
26 May 2010 (7th prime)	"Miss You"	The Rolling Stones	2 blues
	Gigi L'Amoroso	Dalida	4 blues
2 June 2010 (Quarter finals)	"La plus belle pour aller danser"	Sylvie Vartan	2 blues
	"What's Love Got to Do with It"	Tina Turner	2 blues
9 June 2010(Semi-finals)	"Les Cactus"	Jacques Dutronc	4 blues
	"Over the Rainbow"	Judy Garland	4 blues
	"La vie en rose"	Édith Piaf	4 blues
16 June 2010 (Finals)	"Je dis aime"	-M- (Matthieu Chedid)	4 blues
	"Mad About You"	Hooverphonic	4 blues
	"Ne me quitte pas"	Jacques Brel	4 blues

In duos / trios

Date	Song	Other contestants in duo/trio	Original artist
21 April 2010 (2nd prime)	"Toutes les femmes de ta vie"	Annabelle, Lussi, Marine and Stéphanie	L5
28 April 2010 (3rd prime)	"Our House"	Lussi and Stéphanie	Madness
5 May 2010 (4th prime)	"Ça balance pas mal à Paris"	Annabelle and Benjamin	Michel Berger and France Gall
13 May 2010 (5th prime)	"Relator"	Dave	Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson
26 May 2010 (7th prime)	"Money, Money, Money"	Lussi	ABBA
2 June 2010 (Quarter finals)	"Pour un infidèle"	François	Cœur de pirate
	La Carioca (dance)	Ramon	Alain Chabat and Gérard Darmon
9 June 2010 (Semi-finals)	"Dieu est un fumeur de havanes"	Ramon	Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve
	"Light My Fire"	François	The Doors
16 June 2010 (Finals)	22	François	Lily Allen and Ours
	"Capri, c'est fini"	François	Hervé Villard
	"Qu'est-ce que t'es belle"	François	Marc Lavoine and Catherine Ringer

2010-2013 : Première Phalange & Acting

She had her first show after her win in Perpignan on 10 September 2010 after an invitation by Marie Pierre Baux, organizer for 23 years of Estivales de Perpignan festival. During this time, she share a duet with Alain Souchon

She also started preparing for her album collaborating with many writers and composers including Philippe Katerine, Orelsan and Mathieu Boogaerts. She used online promotion under the "jeudis de Luce" plan (meaning Luce's Thursdays) in which she would post every Thursday starting 24 March 2011, a video sketch directed by Najar and Perrot and produced by LNprod, with Luce playing herself and Gaël Giraudeau playing the role of Bobby. The presentations would also include portions of the "song of the week", basically one of the songs of the upcoming album Première Phalange.

Première Phalange was finally released on 20 June 2011 on Sony Music. The 25, she gave a concert to the Trianon, where Mathieu Boogaerts and Orelsan appeared on stage. She also made a successful tour around the France.

In 2011, she also make a duet with Max Boublil accompanied by a videoclip.

In 2012, she made the chorus on the album of Mathieu Boogaerts who write for her several titles in her first album, Première Phalange.

Then, the company "Eveil et Découvertes" ask Luce to sing for them book-song "La Fabrique à Comptines", 13 rhymes. The project is a big success while there isn't a lot of promotion. More than 11 000 albums are sold.

The same year, Luce sing "Il pleut doucement ma mère" written by Maurice Carême in the album "La bande des mots", where poems are put in music. Artists like Oxmo Puccino, Françoise Hardy, Claire Keim, Élie Semoun, Camélia Jordana, Marc Lavoine, Jenifer or Arthur H are a part of the project.

In 2013, Luce sing on the album "Des mots pour Alzheimer" where she read a text written by a witness named Maria. Luce is directly involved by this album because it is released for the Alzheimer's disease because her grandmother is dead beaucause of this sickness. On her first album she sing the song "La symphonie d'Alzheimer" as a tribute to her grandmother. Alain Chamfort, Élie Semoun, Andréa Ferréol, Dominique Besnehard, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Françoise Laborde, Jean Benguigui, Laurent Ruquier, Nelson Monfort, Michel Boujenah, Virginie Lemoine and Marc Lévy are also on the album.

The same year, she made the first part of Virginie Hocq during her show at the Olympia. During this evening she sang 8 titles in exclusivity of her second album. The two women have met on the set of the second season of Vive la colo!. She sing during a night for France Alzheimer, during this evening she sing with Alain Chamfort.^[4] She also sing during the Big dinner of Christmas to the Élysée Palace with ZUT. This evening was organized by the president François Hollande and his wife at the time Valérie Trierweiler. M. Pokora with the troup of Robin des Bois were also there.

In December 2013, she sing with the band ZUT to the Zénith de Paris. She also sing to the special evening Nouvelle Star fête Noël where several former contestant to the Nouvelle Star performs, like Amel Bent, Julien Doré or Amandine Bourgeois. During the evening, she sing the success of Line Renaud, Étoile des neiges.

Still in 2013, she made her debut in the cinema with a supporting role in the comedy Nuts. The movie is produced by Tonie Marshall and starred Éric Elmosnino, Sophie Quinton, Valeria Golino, Évelyne Buyle, Anémone, Brigitte Sy, Partha Pratim Majumder, Marie Denarnaud and Gustave Kervern.

She also made her debut in television with a recurring role in the second season of Vive la colo ! aired on TF1.

She is also in the short Ce qui fait marcher les filles who promote ERAM.

2014-present : Chaud & Showtime

In 2014, Luce begins the studio recording of her second album. She work again with Mathieu Boogaerts who write and direct the album, he has previously work with her on her first album, and she also work with : Joseph Chedid and Zaf Zapha.^[5] Her second album is not released with Sony Music Entertainment but with Tôt ou tard.^[6] Luce post on her Facebook a photo with Hélène Pince, Maryvette Lair and Cléa Vincent and she announced that they will made the chorus on her second album.

Her second album Chaud is released the 23 February 2015 and the first single Polka has been released in December 2014. The second single is Malibu and it's released in February 2015. Luce performed Malibu at the Nouvelle Star on D8 with Mathieu Boogaerts, the 26 February. Then the 27 February, she performed Polka on C à vous on France 5. The same day she is a guest in the radio show Partons en Live aired on France Inter, hosted by her friend André Manoukian where she made a cover of Parole parole.

In March 2015, she begin her Tour with Mathieu Boogaerts. She give 3 concerts to the Nouvelle Ève. She also sing to the festival Les Francos Gourmandes.

In 2015, she returned in the TV Series Hôtel de la plage, aired on France 2, where she played herself as a guest in an episode.

She made her debut on stage the 22 June 2015, with the play "Cabaret Deret" played to the Théâtre de l'Atelier alongside Jean-Claude Deret, Zabou Breitman, Shirley & Dino, Myriam Boyer, Christine Murillo, Olivier Breitman, Les Mauvais élèves, Antonin Chalon, Antoine Larcher and Vadim Sher.^[7]

In July 2015, she made a concert to the Francofolies de La Rochelle still with Mathieu Boogaerts.^[8] The 22nd July she made a concert to the Paléo Festival.^[9]

In September, Luce is preparing a special concert with Philharmonic where she will covered songs, including Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra with the conductor Zahia Ziouani.^[10]

She passed a competition to enter in the Cours Florent. She is one of the 18 selected over 1,500 candidates. She begin training in September 2015.^[11]

The 4th February 2016, she is invited to pay tribute to Les Rita Mitsouko alongside other artists like Congopunq, Olivia Ruiz, Matthieu Chedid, Adrienne Pauly, Izïa, Sabina Sciubba, Moodoïd, Nosfell. She sing Ding Ding Dong (Ringing At Your Bell) & Andy. The concert is to the Théâtre du Rond-Point.^[12][13]

The 17th February 2016, she is invited to the 20th birthday of Mathieu Boogaerts's career. She sing Polka with him. The concert is broadcast on Arte^[14] The same day, an acoustic version of her song "Dans ma maman" with Boogaerts is posted by Bruxelles Ma Belle on YouTube.^[15]

The 26th February 2016, she made a cover of Le mambo du décalco by Richard Gotainer with her friend Jerome Laperruque.^[16]

The 2nd April 2016, she is headline of the Festival Lyrics in Lys-lez-Lannoy. A choir sing in the first part of her concert, Luce's first album's songs.^[17]

During the Cours Florent, she play in Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, Fragments by Jean-Luc Lagarce, Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada and Les Montagnes Russes by Igor Mendjisky.

After the success of the concert with Zahia Ziouani, a tour is announced from 2016 to 2017 and the show is called Showtime !^[18]

In 2017, she joined the agency "Talent Box" which represents her^[19].

In July 2017, she present the play A quand la mer ? to the Festival d'Avignon.

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Peak positions			Sales
		FR [20]	BEL (Wa)	SUI
2011	Première Phalange	11	27	54	25 000[21]
2015	Chaud	55	100	–	10 000[22]
2018	TBA[23]

Singles

• 2011 : "Été noir"
• 2011 : "Western Spaghetti"
• 2011 : "La machine" (feat Orelsan)
• 2011 : "Moyen, Moyenne" (feat Max Boublil)
• 2014 : "Polka"
• 2015 : "Malibu"

Participation

• 2012 : Sing the chorus on the album "Mathieu Boogaerts" Of Mathieu Boogaerts
• 2012 : Sing 13 track of "La Fabrique à Comptines" (11 000 sales)
• 2012 : Sing "Il pleut doucement ma mère" of Maurice Carême in the album "La bande des mots"
• 2013 : Reading the testimony of Maria for "Des mots pour Alzheimer"
• 2013 : Collaboration with the band Zut, Clarika and Didier Wampas for the Album for children "Coucou Zut"
• 2014 : Sing "Je ne pense qu'à ça" featuring Noémie Brosset for her first album
• 2016 : Sing "C'est ça l'amour" with Mathieu Boogaerts for the album We Love Disney 3

Tour

• 2011 - 2012 : Première Phalange
• 2015 - 2016 : Chaud (with Mathieu Boogaerts)
• 2016 - 2017 : Showtime ! (with Zahia Ziouani & Divertimento Orchestra)^[24]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2013	Nuts	Solveig	Yann Coridian
	Vive la colo !	Luna	Stéphane Clavier	TV Series (6 Episodes)
2015	Hôtel de la plage	Herself	Christian Merret-Palmair	TV Series (1 Episode)
2017	Hacœur		Cédric Prévost
	Bizarre	The painter	Pablo Padovani	Video clip

Advertising

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Ce qui fait marcher les filles	Camille	ERAM

Theater

Year	Title	Writer	Director	Notes
2015	Cabaret Deret	Jean-Claude Deret	Zabou Breitman
2016	Fragments	Jean-Luc Lagarce	Julie Brochen
	Peer Gynt	Henrik Ibsen	Jean-Pierre Garnier	Olga Horstif Award
	Alone in Berlin	Hans Fallada	Jean-Pierre Garnier (2)
2017	Les Montagnes Russes	Igor Mendjisky	Igor Mendjisky
	A quand la mer ?	Manuel Durand	Manuel Durand

Appearance on media

Year	Title	Channel	Host
2010	12/13 Languedoc Roussillon	France 3
	2010 dans le rétro	M6	Camille Combal
	La mode, la mode, la mode	Paris Première
	Le Grand Journal	Canal+	Michel Denisot
2011	19/20 Pays Catalan	France 3
	Taratata	France 2	Nagui
	L'invitée du Studio	France soir	Magali Vogel
	Nuit Rock	Direct Star
	Le 19:45	M6	Nathalie Renoux
	12/13 Languedoc Roussillon	France 3
	Chabada X2	France 3	Daniela Lumbroso
	CD'Aujourd'hui	France 2
	La nuit nous appartient	NRJ 12	Mustapha El Atrassi
	Planète Musique Mag	France 2	Patrice Boisfer
	Plus vite que la musique	M6
	N'oubliez pas les paroles!	France 2	Nagui
	12/13 Languedoc Roussillon	France 3
	Face à Face	RTL-TVI	Charlotte Baut
	100 % Mag	M6	Estelle Denis
	66 minutes	M6	Aïda Touihri
	La fête de la chanson française	France 3	Daniela Lumbroso
	Morandini !	Direct 8	Jean-Marc Morandini
	20 Heures	France 2	Marie Drucker
	E-Classement	W9
2012	Bienvenue chez Cauet	NRJ 12	Cauet
	Hebdo Musique Mag	France 2
	N'oubliez pas les paroles!	France 2	Nagui
	On n'est pas couché	France 2	Laurent Ruquier
2015	Nouvelle Star	D8	Benjamin Castaldi
	C à vous	France 5	Anne-Sophie Lapix
	Partons en Live	France Inter	André Manoukian
	Alcaline	France 2
	On connaît la musique	Europe 1
	Elo melodie	France Bleu
	Le Before du Grand Journal	Canal +	Thomas Thouroude
	13 heures	France 2	Élise Lucet
	Playlist session	Ma Chaîne Étudiante	Emeric Berco
	Au Field de la nuit	TF1	Michel Field
	Acoustic	TV5Monde	Sébastien Folin
	Absolument Stars	M6	Claire Nevers, David Lantin
	LCI Culture	La Chaîne Info
	Comment ça va bien!	France 2	Stéphane Bern
	La Bande Originale	France Inter	Nagui
	Tout le monde joue avec la mémoire	France 2	Nagui & Michel Cymes
	Du côté de chez Dave	France 3	Dave
	Vivement Dimanche	France 2	Michel Drucker
	L'oeuf ou la poule	D8	Camille Combal
	La Boîte à Musique	France 2	Jean-François Zygel
	Fort Boyard	France 2	Olivier Minne
	La Bande Originale	France Inter	Nagui
	Mot de Passe	France 2	Patrick Sabatier
2016	Si tu écoutes, j'annule tout	France Inter	Charline Vanhoenacker, Alex Vizorek
	Du côté de chez Dave	France 3	Dave
	Partons en Live	France Inter	André Manoukian
	Time's Up !	Télétoon+	Issa Doumbia

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Luce (singer).

• Les Couleurs de Luce official website