Lenni-Kim

Born

2001-09-08

Birthplace

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Biography

Lenni-Kim Lalande (born September 8, 2001) is a Québec singer and actor. Lenni-Kim Lalande was born on September 8, 2001, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the only son of Guy Lalande and Myriam Landry. From an early age, he imitated the singers he saw on television. At age eight, Lenni-Kim entered an advertising agency and then began to shoot advertisements and films in Quebec. In 2015, Lenni-Kim Lalande became known by participating in the second season of French TV show The Voice Kids, where he chose French singer Patrick Fiori as coach, but was eliminated from the battles. He then posted on the Internet several cover songs, including "Something Big" by Shawn Mendes and "Love Me Like You Do" by Ellie Goulding in duet with Phoebe Koyabe. To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, he launched the song "Pourquoi tout perdre", with a clip directed by Antoine Olivier Pilon and starring several actors including Marianne Verville, Alice Morel-Michaud, Camille Felton, Michaël Girard and Marc-François Blondi. In 2017, he signed a contract with Warner Music France, which produced his album Les autres, released in June 2017. His clips, Yolo and Don't Stop have reached thirty-eight million views together, Don't Stop having recently reached twenty-four million views and Yolo reached fourteen million views. He sang in duet with French singer Lou Jean the French credits of the second season of the series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. In the autumn of 2017, he participated in the eighth season of the French TV show Danse avec les stars on TF1, and finished second in the competition. Being sixteen years old at the time, he is the youngest candidate in the history of the show, all seasons combined. He was nominated for the NRJ Music Awards in the Francophone Breakthrough of the Year category. He participated in the Génération Enfoirés album (released on December 1, 2017) and at the Enfoirés Kids concert, recorded on November 19, 2017, and broadcast on December 1, 2017. On February 16, 2018, he released a new clip for his song "Juste toi et moi", which reached six million views on YouTube. In 2018, he starred in five episodes of the French TV series Tomorrow Is Ours on TF1, playing the role of Zac, a Quebec penfriend for the Moreno twins. On September 1, 2018, he participated in the French program Fort Boyard, presented by Olivier Minne, alongside singer Tal, journalist Isabelle Morini-Bosc, presenter Guillaume Pley, actress Isabelle Vitari and comedian Jeanfi Janssens, for the French association Asperger Amitié. On July 13, 2019, he participated for the second time in the French program Fort Boyard, for the association Les Bonnes Fées, alongside the Miss France 2019 Vaimalama Chaves, the general manager of the Society Miss France Sylvie Tellier, the actress and humorist Nicole Ferroni, singer Francis Lalanne and columnist Pierre-Jean Chalençon. On May 24, 2019, he released the lead single Minuit, which reached 7,6 Million views on YouTube, for his first EP 18, which was released on September 13, 2019. The second single, 18-Unplugged was released on September 8, 2019, Lenni Kim’s 18th birthday. He organized a series of tours in 2018–2019, in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec (Canada) and Russia. ... Source: Article "Lenni-Kim" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.