Mareva Galanter

Mareva Galanter

Born: February 4, 1979
in Papeete, Polynésie française, France
Mareva Galanter (born 4 February 1979) is a French singer, actress and beauty pageant titleholder.

Galanter won the 1998 "Miss World Islands" and then the 1998 "Miss Tahiti" beauty contest that allowed her to compete for the Miss France 1999 crown, which she won. She also competed in Miss Universe 1999, in which she did not place.

Galanter was born in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. She started early in modeling. She was not 16 that she was already doing photoshoots in French Polynesia (with Dominique Petras in Bora Bora, for instance). She kept modeling in Europe, where she headed for the "Miss France" Contest. She also modeled for her partner Jean Charles de Castelbajac, designer of his own brand, living in Paris.

Galanter expanded her work into music and singing, releasing Ukuyéyé, under Warner Music, in 2006.

She has released videos for seven of her songs. She hosted Do you Do you scopitone a French TV programme on the Paris Première channel, dedicated to scopitones from the 1960s and 70s. The scopitone is the precursor to the contemporary music video.

To date, she has performed in several films, including 3 Zéros, Les Gaous, The Pink Panther and Tu Devrais Faire du Cinéma.

Galanter recorded her second album, Happy Fiu, with English band Little Barrie in 2008. She worked with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, with Martin Duffy of Primal Scream and with the band Little Barrie. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac supported her with many of her texts. She toured for several months around France and within Europe.

In 2010 Galanter joined the roster of singers touring and recording with Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux's Nouvelle Vague project. According to Galanter's Twitter feed, she has recorded some material for the next Nouvelle Vague album. In 2011 she traveled to Detroit to work with producer Jim Diamond at his studio, Ghetto Recorders, and recorded 7 new songs, including Western Love, which has an accompanying video available on Vimeo.com.

On 5 May 2023, Galanter released the bilingual single "Une Tahitienne á Paris", which features English singer Robbie Williams.

Galanter's father is Jewish, with roots in Romania and Russia. She and her partner, French television presenter Arthur have a daughter named Manava, who was born on 5 August 2015.

Source: Article "Mareva Galanter" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Mareva Galanter...

Title: The secret song
Character: Self
Released: December 29, 2018
Type: TV
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La Folie Disneyland Paris : L'Anniversaire des 25 ans du Parc
Title: La Folie Disneyland Paris : L'Anniversaire des 25 ans du Parc
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Panique dans l'oreillette
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: TV
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The Pink Panther
Title: The Pink Panther
Character: Street Reporter
Released: February 10, 2006
Type: Movie
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case.
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Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up
Title: Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up
Character: Pénélope
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city.
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Title: La ligne noire
Character: Vanessa
Released: November 21, 2002
Type: TV
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Shooting Stars
Title: Shooting Stars
Character: Eva
Released: April 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A Fleury-Mérogis, un match de foot a lieu dans la cour de prison. Tibor Kovacs, un jeune Hongrois, fait des prodiges avec le ballon. Véritable virtuose du football, il rêve de jouer en équipe de France. Pour Manu, son compagnon de cellule, Tibor est un cadeau du ciel. A la veille de leur sortie de prison, les deux compères décident d'unir leurs destins : Tibor deviendra le plus grand joueur du mon
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV