Amina

Amina Annabi was born on March 5, 1962 in Carthage, Tunisia. Her mother, a musician, soon brought her into contact with traditional and popular music, and Amina soon developed a passion for Tina Turner and Oum Kalthoum. When she arrived in France at the age of thirteen, Amina's desire for an artistic career gradually took shape, and she began training in dance and singing. She gave her first performances with a high-school group, before meeting Martin Messonier in 1982, who helped her with the production. After winning a rap competition in Paris in 1987, Amina's single "Shéhérazade " was released as a 45-turn single, establishing her on the local scene. Her encounters with international music figures such as Afrika Bambaata and Haruomi Hosono forged her aesthetic. This aesthetic took shape on album format for the first time in 1990 with Yahil. A blend of world music and electronic sounds, Amina astonished the world and made it into Billboard magazine's charts. After a series of concerts, including at the New Morning in 1990, she took part in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest with "Le Dernier Qui A Parlé". After coming second, Amina appeared in Claude Lelouch's La Belle Histoire in 1992, then unveiled a second album, Wa Di Yé, the same year. Seducing and bringing together a number of well-known musicians (Tony Allen and Nigel Kennedy), the singer enjoyed success before gradually fading into the background during the 1990s, until two musical comebacks with Annabi (1999) and La Lumière De Mes Choix (2021).

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