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mareva galanter papeete , tahiti , french polynesia , france 200px miss tahiti 1998 france 1999 miss world of islands 1999 miss 1.78 m ftin on 04 february 1979 mareva5.jpg mareva galanter
 mareva galanter
mareva galanter

mareva galanter -lrb- born february 4 , 1979 in papeete , tahiti , french polynesia -rrb- is a french actress and former beauty queen .
galanter won the 1998 `` miss world islands '' and then the 1998 `` miss tahiti '' beauty contest that allowed her to compete for the miss france 1999 crown , which she won .
she also competed in miss universe 1999 , which she did n't placed .
galanter started early in modeling .
she was n't 16 that she was already doing photoshoots in french polynesia -lrb- with dominique petras in bora bora , for instance -rrb- .
she kept modeling in europe , where she headed for the `` miss france '' contest .
she also modeled for her partner jean charles de castelbajac , designer of his own brand , living in paris .
galanter expanded her work into music and singing , releasing `` ukuyéyé '' , under warner music , in 2006 .
she has released videos for seven of her songs .
she hosted do you do you scopitone a french tv programme on the paris première channel , dedicated to scopitones from the 1960s and 70s .
the scopitone is the precursor to the contemporary music video .
to date , she has performed in several feature films , including `` 3 zéros '' , `` les gaous '' , `` the pink panther '' and `` tu devais faire du cinéma . ''
galanter recorded her second album , `` happy fiu '' , with english band little barrie in 2008 .
she worked with singer-songwriter rufus wainwright , with martin duffy of primal scream and with the band little barrie .
jean-charles de castelbajac supported her with many of her texts .
she toured for several months around france and within europe .
in 2010 galanter joined the roster of singers touring and recording with marc collin and olivier libaux 's nouvelle vague project .
according to galanter 's twitter feed , she has recorded some material for the next nouvelle vague album .
in 2011 she traveled to detroit to work with producer jim diamond at his studio , ghetto recorders , and recorded 7 new songs , including western love , which has an accompanying video available on vimeo.com .
galanter is of russian , polish and romanian descent by her father ; and tahitian descent by her mother .
