There was a time when Lorie was at the top of French song. At the start of the new millennium, at just 19 years old, the singer was the idol of young girls. His songs were all over the FM, his face was pinned on the walls of pre-teens, an idyll with Billy
Crawford propelled her to the front page of Fan 2. But that was before. Lorie Pester, her real name, has experienced a bit of a journey through the desert. She also wiped a few low blows in a
industrie musicale never tender with its former glories…
Lorie: new star of the new millennium
Initially, like many little girls, Lorie dreams of herself
figure skater. Unfortunately, she seriously injured her meniscus. Her future career shattered into a thousand pieces, the toddler turns to chanson. Or his second passion. The years passed and the singer experienced her very first success at the age of 19 with Near me.
This single, a huge hit and revelation song, announces the album Near you. Lorie already has a sense of the formula. And its trademark: texts evoking theamourl’friendshipidentity as young woman. She becomes the news
idol young adolescent girls. His album contains two other tubes, I would be (Your best friend) et All alone.
Lorie, the darling of pre-teen girls
These new titles are also monstrous boxes at a time when streaming platforms do not exist. Lorie is on top of the world. A kind of
Britney Spears -less sassy and less object of desire- French. She continues her momentum with her second album, Tenderly. There, she explores a more romantic, more blue flower side.
This is good news, she falls in love with a singer who is also fashionable. The singer is in a relationship with the Filipino Billy Crawford. Between them, it represents a power
couple and thrill the little girls dreaming of Prince Charming. The tube I need love a hit, Lorie is in lovehis career in orbit. But this kind of success is often short-lived…
This very first bitter failure of Lorie
The age of reason hits Lorie hard. Her audience matures and grows, abandoning the marshmallow and candy pink singer. We must renew ourselves. 2004, she changed course with Attitudesthird album with decidedly more rock sounds. A new hit: 300,000 copies sold, the single Week-end works the balloons hard. Phew!
Despite this, Lorie will experience a journey through the desert like many artists before her. In 2011, after a three-year hiatus, she attempted a comeback which ended in a first failure in her career. His sixth album,
Look at meis a four commercial. The contract with his record company, Columbia
Recordsis then broken.
The singer opens up about industry setbacks
In 2020, Lorie sticks a head in the jar of
RTL. The artist, disappointed but lucidexplains in particular his relationship with the music industry during this complicated period. “When everything is going well, when you sell, everyone is behind you.”, says Lorie. “Cmedium people even did dirty things to me, things behind my back […]”
Lorie talks about cancellations of signing sessions, “sabotage” even. She describes this era as “very complicated times” at the RTL microphone. “While their job [aux majors, NDLR] it was more about helping me.” In March 2024, Lorie published a book to testify about the endometriosis she suffers from,
Relive. Eminently symbolic title, sign of a rebirth.
