Amina Annabi (Arabic: أمينة العنابي, romanized: Amīna al-ʿAnnābī; born 5 March 1962) is a French-Tunisian singer-songwriter and actress.
She finished second in the tied 1991 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Rome, after a countback,[1] scoring equal 146 points alongside Carola from Sweden.
Her grandmother was a musician and one of her uncles was involved in setting up the Tabarka Festival in Tunisia, so Amina got the chance to see a number of music stars, going along to concerts by Joan Baez, James Brown and the famous Algerian diva Warda.
Three years later Amina formed her own group, after showing her talent in singing and dancing a variety of music styles, from soul to traditional aigypt songs.
In 1991, Amina won 'Le prix Piaf' as Best Female Singer of the Year, then she went on to get involved in Peter Gabriel's peace project during the Gulf War.
Joining a host of international stars in the studio, Amina took part in the recording of an EP which featured a new version of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance".
Later that same year she joined an international cast led by John Malkovich and Debra Winger, where she played the role of a naked prostitute in the Bernardo Bertolucci movie The Sheltering Sky.