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{{short description|Franco-African dance music singer}}
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'''Abyale''' is a Franco-African [[dance music]] singer who had success in the 1990s. Her first chart "I Wanna Be Your Lover too" stayed 34 weeks in the [http://www.jazzradio.fr/artiste/singer/6070/abyale French Dance Charts] and her song "I Don't Talk about Love" was a hit in France too (#28 on the French [[SNEP]] Singles Chart).<ref>"I Don't Talk about Love", French Singles Chart [http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Abyale&titel=I+Don%27t+Talk+About+Love&cat=s Lescharts.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063754/http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Abyale&titel=I+Don%27t+Talk+About+Love&cat=s |date=4 March 2016 }} Retrieved 27 June 2009</ref> She stopped her career for a while in 1995 when she had a son, then participated in TV adverts and music of [[opening credits]] for series. Her second album was then released in 2009.
She is a member of "les Reines de Saba", a vocal quartet.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Biography [http://www.iden-mag.com/blog-636.html Iden-mag.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616051211/http://www.iden-mag.com/blog-636.html |date=16 June 2009 }} Retrieved 27 June 2009</ref> [[Universal Music]] considered her "one of the new divas of the [[Dance music|dance]] new soul".<ref>{{in lang|fr}} ''Mes Soirées 90's, n°20 – La collection de tous les hits des années 90'', Universal Collection, p. 14</ref>
==Discography==
===Albums===
* 1993 : ''Nightbuzz''
* 2009 : ''A Shade of Blue''
* 2012 : ''Soul Train''
* 2020 : ''Wax''
===Singles===
* 1990 : "I Wanna Be Your Lover Too"
* 1991 : "I don't talk about L.O.V.E." – #28 in France
* 1992 : "A Kiss from Paris"
* 1992 : "The Snooker"
* 1993 : "I Wanna Find Somebody"
==References==
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==External links==
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.abyale.com/ Official site]
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://abyaleworld.free.fr/ Site about Abyale]
* {{in lang|fr}} [https://www.soundamental.org/blog/telechargement/ The story of Abyale in the french PDF magazine Soundamental]
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