Indra (singer) - Later Musical Career

Later Musical Career

After some TV hosting work in France on the channel France 3 on the show Ce soir, je passe à la télé in 1998; Indra returned to the music industry in 1999 with her fourth studio album, "You & Me".

The lead single Never never spent only one week (#99) in the French single Top 100! The album was a complete failure in terms of sales and no other single was released from that album. However, another single in summer 1999 saw her teamed up with Michael Damian from The Young And The Restless, but the song, Reggae Life, became a further addition to her string of flops totally missing the Top 100.

Indra's recording contract was over at the end of 1999. She married model Guy Paillard, moved to Switzerland, and had a son, Ollie, in 2000.

Indra returned to music in 2004. Still produced by Orlando, she started to sing in French in order to get more radio airplays on the French territory. Her come-back single was the pop/rock song Besoin De Vous, a duet with Frederic Lerner. The track made the French top 50 (#47), and for the first time saw Indra enter the official Swiss singles chart.

Then, in 2005, she released her 'real' solo come-back single with Oublie-Moi, a pop/R'n'B track penned by Tragédie who had a string of Top 10 hits in France. With that song, Indra found herself back in the French Top 40 (the song peaked at #39).

In 2006, Indra appeared in the French version of reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - Je suis une célébrité, sortez-moi de là!. While still in the show, a new single was released in April 2006 called Sois beau et tais-toi which reached number 16 in France and made Indra's return in the Top 20 after 14 years. She also released a self-titled album which included her last three singles, some of her biggest hits from the early 1990s and a couple of brand new songs. However the album did not sell very well reaching number 63 on the official French album chart.

Throughout her career, Indra sold more than one million records in France and is in the Top 500 of the best-selling artists of all time in France.

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