Hélène Rollès, who enjoyed success in the 1990s with the Dorothée Club and the sitcoms AB Productions, returns with a new album entitled Helene 2024.
“Hélène…”, in concert, Hélène Rollès just has to let the audience complete in chorus: “my name is Hélène, I am a girl like the others”. More than 30 years after the immense success of My name is Helenethe singer and actress Hélène Rollès still performs it. She released a new album on Friday October 11, the eleventh, entitled Helene 2024. A disc peppered with titles with always very adolescent accents, like the audience of AB productions, which made it successful.
Powered in the late 1980s by the Dorothée Clubthen in the early 1990s by the sitcoms AB Productions, First kissthen its spin-off Helene and the boysHélène Rollès has kept a place in the hearts of the public.
Return to the garage
“The public is growing up, they are showing their children. I had young fans, who got married, who now present their children to me. It’s incredible. It’s a story of a lifetime,” confides- she told BFMTV.
It must be said that she has hardly left the screen, since at Helene and the boys have succeeded The Miracle of Love, The Holiday of LoveThen The Mysteries of Lovewhich have continued to air since 2011.
To rotate the clip Oh my life is beautifulfirst extract from her album, Hélène has also found her accomplices fromHelene and the boysin the studio in Plaine Saint de Denis where Club Dorothée was recorded. The garage where Cricri and his band rehearsed at the time, gathered around Hélène, the boys, Nicolas (Patrick Puydebat), Christian (Sébastien Roch), Jimmy (Tom Schacht) and Etienne (David Proux), who took over their place on bass, drums and keyboard. But also, the girls, Bénédicte (Laure Guibert) and Laly (Laly Meignan).
A star in China
“It was a pleasure for us to see the decor again,” explains Hélène Rollès to BFMTV. “Yves Pirès, who was head of decoration at the time, it was he who created the garage, redid it identically.”
It did us a little something to come back. We arrived at the set and everyone found their place.”
Thanks to the series Helene and the boysHélène’s fame goes far beyond the borders of France. She is like this popular in China for his song My name is Heleneregularly played at weddings, as mentioned this summer The Worldin his series dedicated to AB Productions.
In 2019, the singer who toured China in 2015, was invited to the Elyséeon the occasion of President Xi Jinping’s visit.
“This love story with this country is crazy,” marvels the singer in an interview with Le Parisien. “I’m going to record my hits like My name is Helene and French standards in a Chinese album for the first time. They see me there as THE Frenchwoman.”
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