1. 'Nolwenn Ohwo!' Is a 2006 song recorded by French singer Nolwenn Leroy. It was the first single from her second studio album Histoires Naturelles, and was released on January 23, 2006.It achieved success in France, where it topped the singles chart.
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Rising to fame as a contestant on the TV talent show 'Star Academy' in 2002, Nolwenn Leroy was quickly shaped into a beloved, chart-conquering French pop diva, but later switched to performing English and Celtic folk songs and became an unlikely champion of Breton roots music. The daughter of professional footballer Jean-Luc Le Magueresse, she was born in Saint-Renan, Brittany but followed her father as he moved to Paris to play for Racing Club de France, and then to Lens and later Guingamp. When her parents divorced, Leroy's mother struggled to make ends meet and they lived with her grandparents back in Brittany, where she learned to play the violin and spent her teenage years singing along to Celine Dion and Tori Amos songs. After spending a year as an exchange student in Ohio, USA, she became a fan of the first series of 'Star Academy' and took classical singing lessons at the Vichy Conservatory with one of the show's judges, before auditioning for the second series of the competition. She was only 20-years-old at the time, but spent four months on the reality show performing live in front of the nation, and was eventually crowned the series winner ahead of Houcine Camara. Featuring new songs composed by writers including Laurent Voulzy, Lara Fabian and Pascal Obispo, her debut album 'Nolwenn' and lead single 'Casse' both topped the charts in France and Belgium, and Leroy was slickly transformed into a platinum-selling pop queen with a host of glossy, soaring, tear-jerking ballads.

'Nolwenn Ohwo!' Became her second number one single in 2006 and following albums 'Histoires Naturelles' and 'Le Cheshire Cat & Moi' produced more romantic, dramatic pop anthems. Leroy gradually began writing her own songs and taking control of the direction her music. It led to a dramatic change in style on her 2010 album 'Bretonne' as Leroy celebrated her home region's cultural history and its Celtic connections, mixing traditional folk with modern pop gloss on what became the biggest-selling record of her career. Including the ancient tune 'Greensleeves', the U2 song 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and the unofficial anthem of Brittany 'Bro Gozh Ma Zadou', the album featured tracks sung in the Gaelic, French, English and Breton languages, setting Leroy up as an unlikely historic, folk-pop crooner. A repackaged version of the record aimed at the American market also featured renditions of 'Scarborough Fair', 'Amazing Grace' and 'Dirty Old Town' and Leroy went on to perform at the French Football Cup Final in 2014 before returning in 2017 with sixth album 'Gemme' featuring Edgar Allan Poe poems and a track written about physicist Stephen Hawking.Artist biography compiled by BDS/West 10.

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Nolwenn is the self-titled debut album of the second season winner of Star Academy France, Nolwenn Leroy. It was released during March 2003 in France where it became Nolwenn's first #1 album. Dirt rally download size. It featured some of the top French songwriters such as Laurent Voulzy, Lara Fabian, Pascal Obispo, Daniel Lavoie and Lionel Florence.