Nolwenn Leroy

ABOUT NOLWENN LEROY

French chanteuse who won the second season of the reality show Star Academy, and released two number-one singles.

She was encouraged by her music teacher to take up the violin, and at age 13 won a musical talent contest that allowed her to travel to Timbuktu, Mali.

She spent a year in rural Hamilton, Ohio, which inspired her renditions of "Scarborough Fair" and "Whiskey in the Jar" in her U.S. debut album.

He father Jean-Luc Le Magueresse was a professional footballer, but he and her mother divorced when she was 11.

Her voice and singing style was compared to that of Kate Bush , who Nowlenn covered in some of her concerts.