Lorie

French singer Lorie, sometimes called the "French Britney Spears", was one of the early-2000s most commercially successful French pop artists before the American Idol-inspired TV show era. Born Laure Pester in 1982 in Le Plessis-Bouchard, Val-d'Oise, she was 18 when she auditioned for producer Axel Brangeon and was signed by him. She recorded a demo which was rejected by all the majors before she self-released it on the Internet and got 15,000 downloads in two months. Shortly thereafter she was signed by Epic and released her debut album Près de Toi in 2001. A cheeky confectio...