Marc Lavoine

Lavoine was born near Paris. He was labelled a heart throb at the beginning of his career and remains popular. He released his first album, Le Parking des Anges, in 1985 with his song "Elle a les yeux revolver..." as a favourite among teens. In 1987, Lavoine released his second album Fabriqué. His single, "Qu'est-ce que t'es belle", was a duet with Les Rita Mitsouko leader Catherine Ringer. His third album Les Amours Du Dimanche was released in 1989, which sold 300,000 copies.

In 1992, the singles "Paris", also the title track of his fourth album, and "L'Amour de trente secondes" gained success. In 1993, Lavoine released his fifth album Faux Rêveur. Lavoine's sixth album Lavoine-Matic, released in 1996, included the single "C'est ça la France", which is a song of tolerance and was awarded Best Video from the Victoire de la Musique. In 1999, his seventh album Septième Ciel was released, with the first single as "Les Tournesols".

Lavoine's eighth album, which did not have a title, was released in 2001. Like former albums, this featured duets with female singers, including Italian singer and actress Cristina Marocco, singer Françoise Hardy and actress Claire Keim. In 2003, he released the single "Dis-moi que l'amour" and a live album entitled Olympia Deux Mille Trois. Lavoine's ninth album L'Heure d'été, included singles "Je me sens si seul", "Toi mon amour" and "J'espère", a duet with Belgian singer of Vietnamese descent Quynh Anh. He also wrote the song "Bonjour Vietnam" as a gift for Quynh Anh.[1]

Marc Lavoine has a son, Simon, from his first marriage to ex-Vogue model Denise Pascale.

In 1995 he married Sarah Poniatowski (from the Poniatowski family, which is originally from Poland); they have three children together: Yasmine, Roman, and Milo (born 1 July 2010). They divorced in 2018.

On 25 July 2020 he married the novelist Line Papin.[2][3] They divorced in 2022.

He now lives in Paris and has put out numerous albums along with several movies.

Lavoine is a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1996.[4] He has no other known charitable interests.

• 1984 : Frankenstein 90
• 1994 : L'Enfer
• 1995 : Fiesta
• 1996 : Les Menteurs
• 1998 : Cantique de la racaille
• 1999 : Le double de ma moitié
• 2001 : Déception
• 2001 : My Wife Is an Actress
• 2002 : Blanche
• 2003 : Le coeur des hommes
• 2002 : The Good Thief
• 2003 : Les clefs de bagnole
• 2006 : Toute la beauté du monde
• 2006 : Arthur and the Minimoys (French voice of Darkos played by Jason Bateman)
• 2007 : Le cœur des hommes 2
• 2007 : Si c'était lui...
• 2009 : Korkoro (Liberté) [8]
• 2013 : Crossing Lines
• 2014 : Papa was not a rolling stone

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marc Lavoine.

• Biography of Marc Lavoine, from Radio France Internationale
• Marc Lavoine at IMDb