Who remembers the kid who sang of Jimmy? In 2000, she performed at the Jardin du Luxembourg Park addressing 30,000 mayors of France and an audience of 60,000, accompanied by the Orchestre National de Lille headed by Jean-Claude Casadesus. The second single is called DAllemagne (From Germany), a serious song that tells of another Germany, inspired by Patricias heritage. Patricia Kaas was born on December 5, 1966, in a small town called Forbach in the Lorraine region at Eastern France, just by the German border. During the song Une dernire semaine New York (One last week in New York) she goes down to the audience, picks one of the male fans and dances a slow dance with the lucky guy! The new album was finally finished. The same year, she performed at the Michael Jackson & Friends concert, which aired in 39 countries to support UNESCO, Red Cross, and Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund. She was born in Forbach in Lorraine, France near the German border. She was the companion of the cook Yannick Allno.[7]. With each album more and more songwriters offer her songs. In April 2001 Kaas gave a concert before 50,000 spectators on the occasion of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg's accession from his father Jean. We went out to lunch together, and I spoke a lot about the album. She returns to the studio and records her first album. While on the Scne de vie tour, the singer performed 210 concerts before 650,000 spectators in 13 countries, among them Japan, Canada and the USSR, where she sang in Moscow and Leningrad. The album also featured three tracks in English, including a cover of the James Brown number It's A Man's World. Kaas took the name Pady Pax after Pax Majorettes, a brass band from Stiring-Wendel, of which she and her sister Carine were members and for seven years appeared with the band, Dob's Lady Killers. It occasionally becomes available in on-line auctions, however, but the authenticity of these records is in doubt. The movie was planned for April 1995, it was to be shot in Berlin. She received the Best Foreign Sales award at the Victoires de la Musique and Best French Artist of the Year at the World Music Awards, in 1995. Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote 2 songs, the powerful hymn Les chansons commencent (The songs begin) and the quiet ballad Une fille de lEst (A girl of East), written about Patricia. In 1991, she was honored with the Bambi Award and the World Music Award. She is backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a small studio band -- accordion, bass, guitar, Theremin, keyboards -- and even a chorus under the direction of Abel Korzeniowski, who also arranged the material and produced the album. Patricia Kaas - Mon mec moi - YouTube At the age of only eight Kaas was already singing songs by Sylvie Vartan, Dalida, Claude Franois and Mireille Mathieu, as well as English-language songs such as "New York, New York", at various small events such as the marriage of her brother. With this ensemble she was the star guest at, among others, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival of 1999. The album in France reached 10th place in the charts, but was the second most successful of Kaas's albums in Germany, reaching 12th place. In February Patricia gets Most Selling Album Abroad for the 4th time at the Victoires awards in France. The song has received positive reviews in several newspapers and polls and a clear majority of 62% of all voters in a questionnaire believed in her chances to win the competition. Patricia is thinking about taking another long break. On the cover we see only Patricias leg, with eastern fabrics on the background, a red rose on the floor which turns into water. Through November/December 2001 Patricia took part at the French TV show Star Academy and the Tlthon which was aired on France 2. The British rock musician Chris Rea accompanied Kaas on the tracks Out Of The Rain and Ceux qui n'ont rien (Eng: Those who have nothing) on guitar. In January 2002 she sings at Les Enfoirs, this time performing Le France with Patrick Bruel. She sings Laigle noir (Black eagle) as a duet with the great singer/songwriter Pascal Obispo. Patricia Kaas seems to be off the market. The album in France reached 10th place in the charts, but it was the second most successful of Kaas' albums in Germany, reaching 12 place. [citation needed]. Kaas sang On pourrait as a duet with the Swiss singer Stephan Eicher. Polygram Group refuses to release the first album commercially outside France, only promo versions. In Germany the film was first seen in October 2002 at 19 Days of French Film in Tbingen, but only came to German cinemas in 2003.