1. Najoua Belyzel initially met success when she joined the group Benoit, who had a successful single called "Tourne-toi Benoit", which touched on the subject of homosexuality.
11 Facts About Najoua Belyzel
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Najoua Belyzel kept on working with the group's songwriter Christophe Casanave whose work had already been performed by popular French acts Steeve Estatof and Marc Lavoine.
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In 2005, Najoua Belyzel released her first single, titled "Gabriel", an electro-pop dance track, which became her signature song.
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Najoua Belyzel recently adopted the sitting Angel profile portrait of herself and used it on the album as her motif.
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Najoua Belyzel developed a very dramatic stage routine to encapsulate the song and its highly charged emotional content as was demonstrated in the celebrated 'back to school' performance in Lille in 2006.
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Najoua Belyzel has said that the song has nothing to do with gay issues, as has been suggested, but concerns the unlikely love of a human girl for an archangel and questioned whether that can be reciprocated.
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Najoua Belyzel released a new single, "Quand revient l'ete ", on 10 September 2007.
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Najoua Belyzel has been compared to Mylene Farmer, mainly because the video clip for "Gabriel" was shot in the same abbey as one of Mylene's clips and because they write about similar themes.
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Nonetheless, Najoua Belyzel says she never wanted to copy Mylene and that they both have their distinctive universes.
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In September 2014, after a period of five years, and much to the acclaim of her fans, Najoua Belyzel released a new song "Rendez-Vous" with accompanying video, shot in the night by the banks of the Seine in a deserted Paris.
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Najoua Belyzel has parted with her previous label Scorpio and has released "Rendez-Vous" and a new album under 'Les Edition Gabriel'.