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Profession: Musician
Yet Ophélie's childhood was no bed of roses - for, after rocketing to the top of the charts in the 70's with his hit single "Oh Lady Mary", Ophélie's father abandoned his wife and children to seek fame and fortune in America. 3-year-old Ophélie and her brother, Michael, were left to grew up fatherless in Paris. However, this would not deter young Ophélie from trying to follow in her father's footsteps.
Indeed, young Ophélie would go on to launch her own career at an extremely early age, recording her debut single (a duet entitled "Bob et Ophélie") at the tender age of 6. By the age of 12 Ophélie had already gone solo, returning to the studio to record a second single entitled "Poil de carotte. In 1990 the leggy blonde 16-year-old would also try her hand at modelling, but in spite of her success on the catwalk Ophélie stuck to her singing career, recording three more singles on the Carrère label between 1992 and 1994.
Ophélie was due to return to the studio in 1994 to begin work on her debut album, but a chance encounter with the Artist Formerly Known As Prince would suddenly change her plans. The impetuous young singer promptly cancelled the release date of her album and jetted out to the States to join the American funk star in Minneapolis. Ophélie would return to France later that same year, however, when she landed a job as a television presenter with the M6 channel, fronting two chart music programmes, "Hit Machine" and "Dance Machine".
Encouraged by the enormous success of these two shows, the directors at M6 decided to give Ophélie her own show - the result was the launch of the programme "Coming Next", on which Ophélie gave viewers her personal style tips and predicted forthcoming trends. The young TV presenter's career continued to go from strength to strength and in 1996 she was given a new show, "Ophélie Street" - a programme on which she interviewed celebrities from the film and music world.
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