Cyndi Almouzni

Cyndi waiting for the results on Eurovison: Making Your Mind Up along with Scooch

Cyndi Almouzni (born 1985), professionally known as Cyndi, is a French singer who hails from Marseille.

Career

When she was 14, Cyndi won a local talent contest and entered the national televised contest finals held in Paris. This was the start of her professional singing career. She has performed in many countries, including France, the UK and the US. She signed a worldwide recording contract in the US while continuing her studies. In 2004, Cyndi released a self-titled album under the name "Cherie" while signed to Lava records, which featured the leadoff single "I'm Ready". This song sampled the bassline from Foreigner's "Urgent" and made decent headway on the US charts. Follow-up single "Older Than My Years" charted at Adult Contemporary radio. Aside from one holiday track that was sent to radio ("Merry Christmas Darling") Cherie seemingly disappeared altogether, until resurfacing in the 2007 BBC selection for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Interestingly, no mention was made of "Cherie" again as Cyndi reverted to her family name.

Steve Allen, A&R at Sony BMG first discovered Cyndi after hearing her powerful vocals on a dance track recorded when she was just 14 years old. Allen was behind two previous eurovision entries, Gina G with ‘Ooh Ah Just A Little Bit’ [7th in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest or 8th once a mistake had been noticed after the broadcast] and the 1997 UK winning entry in Dublin with Katrina & the Waves.

Eurovision attempt

On 17 March 2007 Cyndi competed in the BBC's Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up contest to decide who would represent the United Kingdom at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, Finland. She sang the song "I’ll Leave My Heart", which had been produced by renowned Grammy award winning producer Brian Rawling. Terry Wogan announced the winner to be Cyndi while, simultaneously, co-host Fearne Cotton revealed the winner to be Scooch. After several seconds of confusion from both contestants, it was revealed that Scooch were the true winners. It was later revealed by the BBC that Cyndi had received 47% of the vote to Scooch's 53%.^[1]

Her song was entered into the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2007 competition, and it came 2nd.

Cyndi was last known to be working on album material which was due for release in 2009.

References

1. ^ "Gaffe mars Scooch Eurovision win". BBC News. 18 March 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6463147.stm. Retrieved 18 March 2007. 

External links

• Official BBC MYMU Site
• Cyndi Almouzni's MySpace

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