Hélène Ségara (born Hélène Rizzo, on 26 February 1971 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France) is a French female singer. * Her childhood in the French Riviera Hélène Ségara was born on 26 February 1971 in Six-Fours-les-Plages in her grandfather's farm. Her father is Italian and her mother Armenian. She said that she had been traumatized in her childhood by the divorce of her parents when she was 8, and by the death of her grandfather when she was 16. As she wanted to become a singer, she left school and family at the age of 14.