Marie Line
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Marie Line, also known as Marie Line Marolany or Maro Lany, is a french singer that took part in the Eurovision Song Contest
1998 for France.
on the French Riviera
. She has French-Caribbean roots and early on was backing singer in her brothers’ group, Soul Afro Punk. She then started to sing her own compositions in piano bars all over in France and then went to record two albums with Raoul Petite. Afterwards she toured Europe with many famous french singer doing backing vocals.
In 1998 she was chosen to represent France to the Eurovision Song Contest
held in Birmingham
, with her song Ou Aller? (Where to?). The song was totally different from the other pop entries and some suggested that it was a reminder of the french "exotic" and "afro-Caribbean" entries of 1991 and 1992. Though her performance was great and the audience seemed to like it, the song suffered a complete disaster. It was awarded only 3 points (1 point from Cyprus and 2 points from FYR Macedonia)and ranked 24th doing only better than Switzerland. This is the worse French rank to date.
After that Marie Line did not record any of her songs. She continued her career as a backing vocalist and a composer – she is known for have written music for three french movies: Les Caprices d'un fleuve, Cuisine américaine and Agathe Cléry.
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
1998 for France.
Life and career
Marie-Line Marolany was born in Saint-Raphaël, VarSaint-Raphaël, Var
Saint-Raphaël is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.Immediately to the west of Saint-Raphaël lies another, older, town called Fréjus, and together they form an urban agglomeration known as Fréjus Saint-Raphaël...
on the French Riviera
French Riviera
The Côte d'Azur, pronounced , often known in English as the French Riviera , is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco...
. She has French-Caribbean roots and early on was backing singer in her brothers’ group, Soul Afro Punk. She then started to sing her own compositions in piano bars all over in France and then went to record two albums with Raoul Petite. Afterwards she toured Europe with many famous french singer doing backing vocals.
In 1998 she was chosen to represent France to the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
held in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, with her song Ou Aller? (Where to?). The song was totally different from the other pop entries and some suggested that it was a reminder of the french "exotic" and "afro-Caribbean" entries of 1991 and 1992. Though her performance was great and the audience seemed to like it, the song suffered a complete disaster. It was awarded only 3 points (1 point from Cyprus and 2 points from FYR Macedonia)and ranked 24th doing only better than Switzerland. This is the worse French rank to date.
After that Marie Line did not record any of her songs. She continued her career as a backing vocalist and a composer – she is known for have written music for three french movies: Les Caprices d'un fleuve, Cuisine américaine and Agathe Cléry.