Origin Alexandria, Egypt Albums Beladi, Love Needs You Name Chantal Chamandy | Labels Ninemuse Years active 1980–present | |
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Website www.chantalchamandy.com Role Singer · chantalchamandy.com Movies Hit by Lightning, Crazy Moon Similar People Ricky Blitt, Robert Menzies, Allan Eastman Profiles | ||
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Chantal Chamandy (born about 1966) is a Canadian singer and entertainer based in Montreal, Quebec. She previously performed under the names Chantal Condor and Chantal.
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- Chantal chamandy in san francisco june 29th
- Chantal chamandy take a chance live at the pyramids
- Early life
- Career
- Albums
- Singles
- Chantal album 1989
- DVDs
- Filmography
- References
Chantal chamandy take a chance live at the pyramids
Early life
Chamandy was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Her father was Greek and Egyptian and her mother was Lebanese-Egyptian. The family moved to Montreal, Canada when Chamandy was six years old. She say in her church choir.
Career
Her first success was as part of Voggue, a disco duo she formed with Angela Songui. In 1981, the duo released its first self-titled album, which contains the singles "Love Buzz", "Here We Are" and their most successful single, "Dancin' the Night Away". In 1989, a second album was released on Matra Records, containing the singles "I Want To Dance" and "Sunstruck Lovers". Voggue disbanded in 1990.
After Voggue, Chantal recorded as a solo act. The single led to an album deal with the label, and she released the album Chantal Condor in 1992 Her style was sometimes described as Off the album came the singles "Marinero" (backed with "Don't You Want My Love") and "Nightmare". She received a Juno Award nomination in 1986 for Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year,
She dropped use of her last name, releasing Chantal, on the Columbia Records label. The single "A Little Lovin'" became a charting single on Canada's RPM 100 Singles chart. In 1991 she became a member of the French-Canadian dance quartet Collage and appeared on their first and only album, but soon left the group. They then became a trio and the album was re-released without Chantal on the cover.
She did not release new material again until 2006, when she released a series of singles on her own independent label Ninemuse. She also used a number of unconventional strategies to get her name and material back into the public eye, including a marketing campaign on public transit and selling her single "Feels Like Love" for $1 a copy in the Dollarama chain of dollar stores, which resulted in the single selling over 10,000 copies and being picked up for sale in conventional record stores. She released Love Needs You in 2006 later the same year. "Feels Like Love" received airplay on U.S. Adult Contemporary radio.
On 7 September 2007, she performed a concert in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt in conjunction with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. That performance was released on album and DVD in 2008 as Beladi, and was also made available for broadcast on PBS in the United States.
Chamandy is also credited with some small appearances in Canadian films, including 2014's Hit by Lightning, which she produced, and also included some of her songs in the sound track.
Albums
Singles
Chantal album (1989)
List of track titles (writers) - Chantal performs lead vocals for all songs, unless noted otherwise.
Chantal was produced by Peter Wood