| Ortal, born in Israel of Berber and Andalusian origins, begins singing when she is sixteen. But it is in the year 2000 that things really start to take shape. Ortal moves to Spain and joins the group ‘Gipsy Sound’ (Alabina).
For the next two years she spends a lot of her time touring Europe with them.
Her musical travels even lead her to meet Bruce Willis when she’s booked to be part of the entertainment at prestigious boxing matches at MGM’s hotel in Las Vegas.
She is invited to sing at the French première of the James Bond movie ‘Demain Ne Meurt Jamais’ (‘Tomorrow Never Dies’) in Paris at the classy Pont-Neuf party.
Meanwhile her first appearance on TV occurs in Monaco for Prince Albert’s birthday party.
Ortal also performs in Tunisia along with French artists like the Poétic Lovers, AliasLJ, Loua, and Mélomane. And if that wasn’t enough, she even finds time to sing backing vocals on the albums of various French artists! In 2002, she decides to settle down in Paris to write her own songs. While based in the capital city she performs with Parisian DJs, in famous bars and clubs like Les bains-Douches, the Barfly and the Milliardaire. In 2004, she signs with Up Music. The song ‘Chacun Pense à Soi’ is her first single. She combines lively mixed rhythms and R&B sounds with lyrics that have a resonance in today’s society.
Ortal, still only 26, brings R&B to a mainstream audience. |
