Hélène Ségara is a French Female singer, born Hélène Rizzo, on 26 February 1971 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France on her grandfather's farm. Her father is Italian and her mother Armenian.
She said that she had been traumatized in her childhood by the divorce of her parents when she was 8, and by the death of her grandfather when she was 16. As she wanted to become a singer, she left school and family at the age of 14.
She had many successive jobs including performances in the piano bars of the French Riviera. At 18, she gave birth to Raphael, her first son. Her repertoire was expanding, with many musical influences and over a thousand songs. In 1993, a first single entitled "Loin" was released, but didn't meet with any commercial success.
* A new start
After her convalescence, she recorded her second album, Au Nom d'une femme in 2000. The album topped the charts, and reached Diamond Sales. Five singles from this album were all successfully released. Ségara then began a concert tour that lasted for two years. A video recording of the concert at the Olympia in Paris on this occasion was released. According to a poll made by the IFOP, Segara was at the time the favourite French singer in her country.
In March 2003 was released a third album, Humaine, including "On n'oublie rien, on vit avec", a duet with Laura Pausini and "L'Amour est un soleil", composed by Romano Musumarra. About 700,000 copies of this album were sold. She started another tour in late 2003 but was forced to stop her performances because of a difficult pregnancy.
In August 2003, Ségara married in Ajaccio Mathieu Lecat (son of journalist Didier Lecat), with whom she had two other children: Matteo (born in May 2003) and Maïa (October 2004).
Her fourth studio album, Quand l'éternité ...