Il fut remporté par le Luxembourg, avec la chanson Poupée de cire, poupée de son, interprétée par France Gall. Le père d'Isabelle Gall, Robert Gall (1918-1990), ancien élève du conservatoire, est un chanteur et auteur, entre autres, des Amants merveilleux pour Édith Piaf (1960) et de La Mamma pour Charles Aznavour (1963). The show played for one month at Palais des congrès de Paris. 6, 4 February 1984 — "Calypso", words and music by Berger, 20 May 1984 — "Cézanne peint", words and music by Berger, 12 September 1988 — "Papillon de nuit", words and music by Berger, 29 May 1992 — "Laissez passez les rêves", words and music by Berger, duet with Michel Berger, December 1993 — "Il jouait du piano debout" (live), 2 February 1994 — "La négresse blonde" (live), 14 November 1994 — "Les princes des villes", 15 May 1997 — "Attends ou va-t'en" (live), 20 August 2004 — "La seule chose qui compte", This page was last edited on 14 April 2021, at 04:02. Original text: « Le 20 mars, devant 150 millions de téléspectateurs, la voix tremblante et le teint pâle, elle interprète sa chanson. She died of cancer that she has been fighting for two years. Gainsbourg also secretly recorded Gall's laughter to use on "Pauvre Lola", a track on his 1964 album Gainsbourg Percussions.[2]. In 2001 her career was celebrated in a documentary on French television which attracted millions of viewers. [citation needed], Gall staged and appeared in the 2007 France 2 documentary, Tous pour la musique, marking the 15th anniversary of Michel Berger's death. After a year in Los Angeles, she released her eighth studio album, France, in 1996. It was after she was signed that she started working with composer Serge Gainsbourg. [16] Gall was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 1993, which was successfully treated. La Compagnie went bankrupt within three years of its creation, co-founder and singer Hugues Aufray blaming the failure entirely on Norbert Saada.[14]. Her songs "Des gens bien élevés", "La Manille et la révolution", "Zozoï" and "Éléphants" were largely ignored. Reactions to Gall's death have been coming in from around the world. European Broadcasting Union, La chanteuse France Gall se produit en mars 1965 dans le cadre de l'Eurovision. 56 countries and an additional 34 Associates in Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas. Sa mère, Cécile Berthier, est la fille de Paul Berthier (1884-1953), cofondateur de la Manécanterie des Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois. Gilles Verlant. Only six months later, in 1974, after she sang vocals on the song "Mon fils rira du rock'n'roll" on Berger's new album, Gall's publisher asked him, at her behest, to write for her. [8], In 1965, Gall toured France for several months with "Le Grand Cirque de France" ("The Great Circus of France"), a combination of radio show and live circus. The repertoire featured songs written exclusively by Berger though Gall included her own versions of songs originally performed by others. "Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son" by France Gall from Luxembourg at Eurovision Song Contest 1965. Les meilleures offres pour France Gall 45 Tours Eurovision 1965 Serge Gainsbourg sont sur eBay Comparez les prix et les spécificités des produits neufs et d'occasion Pleins d'articles en … She was selected to represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 in Naples with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son, which won with 32 points. Her daughter Pauline was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis soon after she was born. In 1972, Gall, for the last time, recorded songs by Gainsbourg, "Frankenstein" and "Les Petits ballons", but these also failed to chart. In the 1980s she spent considerable effort supporting humanitarian causes. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. [12] She said she had sung “with an innocence of which I’m proud” and later said that her humiliation led her to avoid going out in public after being “betrayed by the adults around me”. [12] She left France for Japan shortly after the song was released and was reportedly not able to trust another producer again until meeting Michel Berger. French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to her humanitarian work as well as her musical legacy: Edoardo Grassi, Head of Delegation at the Eurovision Song Contest for France, reacted to France Gall's death on Twitter with "great sadness": Dutch radio legend Erik de Zwart speaks of a "childhood hero who passed away": On behalf of the entire Eurovision community we wish to extend our deepest condolences to France Gall's loved ones. That July, she auditioned for Bourgeois at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, after which Bourgeois wanted to sign her immediately. The song appeared on the album Babacar. Although struggling in her home country, Gall regularly recorded in Germany from 1966 to 1972, in particular with the composer and orchestrator Werner Müller. Coming from a musical family, she had her first hit at age 16. To Eurovision fans though, France Gall is most remembered for her Eurovision bid in 1965, and her yé-yé track “Poupée de cire, poupée de son”. ("Anyone remember Caryl Chessman? The Eurovision Song Contest is organized by the French artist of Portuguese descent, and Eurovision … Gall had already made her mind up that "It will be him and nobody else". He encouraged her to record four tracks with the French jazz musician, arranger and composer Alain Goraguer. Her father, the lyricist Robert Gall, wrote songs for Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. [12], At the beginning of 1967, Gall sang a duet with Maurice Biraud, "La Petite", which describes a young girl coveted by a friend of her father. Plébiscitée par le jury à la majorité absolue, elle se trouve propulsée à la première place. The results of her collaboration with Jean-Michel Rivat as artistic director, "La Quatrieme chose" (1972), "Par plaisir" and "Plus haut que moi" (1973) all failed to meet with commercial success. Le 20 mars 1965, France Gall, à seulement 17 ans, remporte le grand prix de l’Eurovision à Naples grâce à Poupée de cire, poupée de son, une chanson écrite et composée par Serge Gainsbourg. Out of ten songs Gall picked Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son, penned by the famous French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, who she would continue to work with throughout a significant part of her career. France Gall remporte le concours, en 1965, avec « Poupée de cire, poupée de son » (1965), écrite par Serge Gainsbourg et inspirée d'une sonate de Beethoven. The songs "Résiste" and "Il jouait du piano debout" ("He played the piano standing") quickly became French pop standards. [12] Instead of adopting the child Berger and Gall decided to help financially by writing a song about the dilemma and donating the proceeds of the song to the child. France Gall, l'autre française à avoir gagné l'Eurovision... Pour le Luxembourg. During a later radio broadcast, she asked him for his opinion on songs which her then producer wanted her to record. Though there has been controversy that Gall sang and won for Luxembourg rather than her native France, … France was subsequently signed to Philips. Between 1973 and 1992, she collaborated with singer-songwriter Michel Berger. Composed by Michel Berger and written by the Québécois author Luc Plamondon, the rock opera Starmania enjoyed a success not usual for musicals in France. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. C’est le début d’une ascension vertigineuse. She decided to commit to the performances at Bercy and promoted the songs that she and Berger created together. [1] Gainsbourg, who had released several albums and written songs for singers including Michèle Arnaud and Juliette Gréco, was asked by Bourgeois to write songs for Gall. France Gall effondrée Un difficile épisode de la vie de France Gall , que la chanteuse, décédée en 2018, avait elle-même raconté il y a quelques années. " [3] Success at Eurovision ensured that Gall became even more known outside Europe and she recorded "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" in French, German, Italian and Japanese. Evidemment, la carrière de France Gall ne se résume pas seulement à l’Eurovision. France Gall jeune représente le Luxembourg au Concours Eurovision de la chanson en mars 1965. France Gall lauréate du concours musical de l'Eurovision fête le 25 mars 1965 le million de disques vendus pour sa chanson Poupée de cire, poupée … Her other German hits included "Haifischbaby (Bébé requin)", "Die schönste Musik, die es gibt" ("The most beautiful music there is"/"Music To Watch Girls By"), "Was will ein Boy" ("What does a boy want?") Il est remporté par le Luxembourg, avec la chanson Poupée de cire, poupée de son, interprétée par France Gall. 3" (1968), "Ein bisschen Goethe, ein bisschen Bonaparte" ("A bit of Goethe, a bit of Bonaparte"), "I like Mozart" (1969), "Dann schon eher der Piano player" ("I prefer the piano player") (1970), "Ali Baba Und Die 40 Räuber" ("Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves") (1971), "Komm mit mir nach Bahia, Miguel" ("Come with me to Bahia, Miguel") (1972). The following year she was diagnosed with breast cancer, from which she recovered from. Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son features in our Top Ten entries from Luxembourg: In 1992, France Gall lost her husband, singer-songwriter Michel Berger, who suffered from a fatal heart attack during a tennis match. From the ten songs proposed to her, she chose Gainsbourg's "Poupée de cire, poupée de son. [17], She was a patron of the French charity Cœurs de Femmes and a regular poker player up until her death. She and Berger had decided to focus their hopes on the progress of medical research and to keep details of Pauline's condition a secret from the public. At the same time, she gave a successful series of concerts lasting three weeks at the new venue Le Zénith in Paris, where she performed new songs like "Débranche" ("Loosen-up"), "Hong-Kong Star", and gave solid acoustic performances of "Plus haut", "Diego libre dans sa tête" and "Cézanne peint". Even dopey hits like "Sacré Charlemagne", a duet with a pair of puppets who were the stars of a children's show on French TV, have an infectious, zesty charm; meatier tunes, like the sultry jazz-tinged ballad "Pense a Moi" and the brilliant rocker "Laisse Tomber les Filles", were as good as any single produced in the U.S. or Great Britain at the time. Si l'auteur et l'interprète sont Français, la victoire est pour le Luxembourg, que représente France Gall. France Gall, who won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with 'Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son', passed away earlier today at 70. Having previously resisted, Gall gave in to her managers at the end of 1964 and recorded a single intended for children. [citation needed]. France Gall n'a pas encore 18 ans. [15] In 1974, "La Déclaration d'amour" was to be the first in a long line of hits which marked a turning point in Gall's career. In 1996, Gall asked Jean-Luc Godard to produce the video clip of her song "Plus haut", taken from her album France. "), about the death row prisoner. Gall's victory, as well as the numerous translations of the song, brought her international fame in Europe and beyond. France Gall a très mal vécu sa victoire à l'Eurovision. Please enable JavaScript to view the Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall , known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé singer. 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There appears to be no English version released by France Gall, although there was an English cover version by the English 1960s star Twinkle. Gall was enthralled by Michel Berger's music when she heard his song "Attends-moi" ("Wait for Me") one day in 1973. Elle a remporté le Grand Prix de l'Eurovision avec sa chanson "poupée de cire, poupée de son". [citation needed], In 1966, Gall appeared in the television film Viva Morandi, made in the same psychoanalytical mould as the (1965) Federico Fellini film Giulietta degli Spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits). 07 janvier 2018 France Gall: Pourquoi sa victoire à l’Eurovision a brisé son couple avec Claude Francois Il se déroule le samedi 20 mars 1965, à Naples, en Italie. Following the release of Babacar, Gall launched a new show produced by Berger. It was given its first and only airing (due to copyright issues) on 20 April 1996 on the French television channel M6. Her son Raphaël is pursuing a successful career in the music industry. Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son is credited as being the first pop song to win the Eurovision Song Contest and had a significant impact on the musical style of songs that were entered into the contest in the years that followed. https://eurovision.tv/story/france-gall-passed-away-at-70-luxembourg-1965 A l'époque, France Gall vivait une idylle avec le chanteur Claude François, celui-ci n'aurait pas accepté qu'elle gagne le Concours et que l'on parle plus d'elle que de lui. Certains l’ignorent peut-être mais France Gall avait représenté le Luxembourg lors du célèbre concours de l’Eurovision, en 1965. La scène relatant leur rupture le soir de la victoire de France Gall à l'Eurovision est mentionnée dans le … [9] Gainsbourg then sang an anti-capital punishment song with Gall, "Qui se souvient de Caryl Chessman?" Au cours de la soirée, France Gall a été giflée par une concurrente et quittée par Claude François. In January 2010, Gall was portrayed by Sara Forestier [10] in a feature film released in France, Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque), based on the graphic novel by writer-director Joann Sfar. In 1966, her children's song "Les Leçons particulières" ("Private lessons") was the subject of public notoriety and displeasure; the same occurred when Jean-Christophe Averty choreographed a troupe of men on all fours to illustrate another of her children's songs, "J'ai retrouvé mon chien" ("I've found my dog"), on his television programme, Les Raisins verts. It was released in November and became a hit, selling 200,000 copies. In 1985 and 1986, Gall worked with Berger, Richard Berry, Daniel Balavoine and Lionel Rotcage [fr] for the benefit of Action Écoles, an organisation of schoolboy volunteers which collects essential food products in France for African countries where famine and drought prevail. France Gall giflée le soir de l'Eurovision : sa victoire a eu un goût amer dim. The most novel aspect of this show was that, except for the Brazilian drag act Les Étoiles, the members of the orchestra, choir and the dance troupe were exclusively female. Luxembourg was the winner of Eurovision … [citation needed]. "J'ai été huée et giflée". Nous sommes au milieu des années 1960, France Gall n'a même pas encore 18 ans. With this string of recordings in the late 1960s, none of them an unmitigated success, and making the transition from teen-age to adult performer, Gall faced some challenges in this period through the early 1970s. Crédit : AFP [18] In this show, France sang "Maria vai com as outras" the original, Brazilian (Portuguese) version of "Plus haut que moi". Gainsbourg (biography). They wrote "Bébé requin" ("Baby Shark"), a song which met with some success for Gall. The project was cancelled after Disney's death in 1966. [citation needed], This was followed by "Teenie Weenie Boppie", an anti-LSD song by Gainsbourg, which has been described as "a bizarre tune about a deadly LSD trip that somehow involves Mick Jagger". The small country, land-locked between Belgium, France and Germany, often had to rely on 'talent from outside'. A label change from Philips to BASF in 1972 didn't help matters ..."[9]. That same year, she decided to headline at the Paris Olympia. Elle est la nièce de Jacques Berthier (1923-1994), compositeur et organiste, cousine du guitariste Denys Lable, de Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt(fils de Jacques), fondateu… [19] Following the release of Double Jeu, Gall and Berger announced a series of concerts in various Parisian venues; this project was nearly cancelled by Berger's death from a heart attack on 2 August 1992. Le concours Eurovision de la chanson 1965 fut la dixième édition du concours. J'étais très amoureuse, je pleure. Her singles continued to chart successfully, including the Gainsbourg-penned "Attends ou va-t'en" ("Wait for me, or go away") and "Nous ne sommes pas des anges" ("We are not angels"). She went her own way in 1969 with two adaptations: one Italian and the other British: "L'Orage/La Pioggia)" ("The Storm") which she sang with Gigliola Cinquetti at the 1969 Sanremo Music Festival, and "Les Années folles" ("Gentlemen Please"), created by Barbara Ruskin. Il se déroula le samedi 20 mars 1965, à Naples, en Italie. Gall topped the pop charts in many countries in 1987 and 1988 with another song from the Babacar album, "Ella, elle l'a" ("Ella′s got it"), a Berger tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. [citation needed], In 1979, Gall took part in a new show which remains memorable for many. [13], Stewart Mason wrote about this period, "The psychedelic era found Gall, under Gainsbourg's guidance, singing increasingly strange songs ... set to some of Gainsbourg's most out-there arrangements."[9]. The song "Sacré Charlemagne", written by her father, and set to the music of George Liferman, was a hit in 1965, peaking at number two in France and number five in Turkey. [citation needed] All the songs she performed were written by Michel Berger from Double Jeu, and from their discographies. "[7] — the song impressed the jury and it took the Grand Prix. The costs covered an apartment for the family and paid study costs for the both the mother and child.[12]. the world's foremost alliance of public service media, representing 116 member organizations in [11], Also in 1966, Gall released another song written by Gainsbourg called “Les Sucettes” (Lollipops). [9], After a TV film directed by Jean-Christophe Averty and dedicated to the songs of Gall was distributed in the United States in 1965, Gall was sought by Walt Disney to appear as Alice in a musical film version of Alice in Wonderland, after having already made Alice into a cartoon in 1951. She finally performed at the Bercy in September. Gall was born in Paris on 9 October 1947, to a highly musical family. La chanteuse a notamment perdu son petit-ami de l'époque à cause du concours. The Eurovision 1965-winner France Gall, born as Isabelle Gall, died this morning in Paris at the age of 70. ... ». At the time, Bourgeois was working for the label as artistic director for Serge Gainsbourg and assumed this role for Gall as well. Over nearly two decades she collaborated with singer Michel Berger. France GALL et Serge GAINSBOURG reçoivent leur prix des mains du chanteur italien Mario DEL MONACO pour la chanson "Poupée de cire poupée de son" écrite et composée par Serge GAINSBOURG et interprétée par France GALL. Elle fait 1 m 60 et pèse 42 kilos. Elle est sélectionnée pour représenter le Luxembourg au 10e Concours Eurovision de la chanson et choisi le titre Poupée de cire, poupée de son. In her post-Eurovision career, Gall proved to be a diverse entertainer, showing her talent in films and musicals. Her mother, Cécile Berthier, was a singer as well and the daughter of Paul Berthier, the co-founder of Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. New authors Frank Thomas and Jean-Michel Rivat [fr] were brought on board. She also had a hit with the song "L'Amérique" ("America") by Eddy Marnay and Guy Magenta. [16] After they married, Gall only sang songs written by Berger until his death in 1992. She teamed up with Distel's business manager, Maurice Tézé, a lyricist, which allowed her to create an original repertoire, unlike the majority of her contemporaries who sang adaptations of Anglophone hits. comments powered by Disqus. She also worked for S.O.S Ethiopie for the benefit of Ethiopia under the aegis of Renaud. [citation needed], A long-term breast cancer survivor, Gall died, aged 70, of an infection after a two-year battle with a cancer of undisclosed primary origin, at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 7 January 2018. This planned project was never completed due to Boorman's death in 1996. She moved to a new record label, La Compagnie, in 1969, with whom her father Robert signed a contract,[14] where she made a number of recordings, but did not succeed in finding a coherent style with Norbert Saada as artistic director. Only Françoise Hardy was consistently making records up to these standards during this era. Gall received points from 10 of the 18 participating countries. [20], As a farewell to her career, a documentary movie was shot in 2001, France Gall par France Gall and millions watched the documentary when it was broadcast on French television that year. On 14 January 1986, during a trip to Africa, Balavoine tragically perished in a helicopter crash. [17], In 1978, pushed by Berger, she once again trod the boards of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées where she had auditioned 15 years earlier, starring in a show titled Made in France. The controversy over this performance overshadowed her release that year of Gainsbourg's poetic Néfertiti. She did, however, make an album called Double Jeu with Berger released 12 June 1992. France Gall was a French singer who started her music career as a teenager and over a career lasting five decades released dozens of studio albums and live albums. [citation needed], At the same time, Gall made her live debut, opening for Sacha Distel in Belgium. On the same album, the song "Babacar" was about a child Gall and Berger had thought to adopt from Dakar, Senegal after meeting a mother who had begged Gall to take her child. (1967), "Ja, ich sing" ("Yes, I sing"), "A Banda (Zwei Apfelsinen im Haar)" ("Two oranges in my hair"), "Der Computer Nr. With 32 points, she won the contest a safe distance from the runner-up, the UK's Kathy Kirby, who only received 26 points. near his residence in Rolle, Switzerland. [citation needed]. Michel Berger died of a heart attack in 1992, at age 44. Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, better known as France Gall, was a popular French "yé-yé" singer. [16] They had two children together, Pauline and Raphaël. She played "La Grâce" alongside Christine Lebail, who played "La Pureté", both singing "Les Sucettes" in a segment which was prominently labelled "Fantasy", in a clear reference to the song's sexual undertones. Gall was then selected to represent Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965. Her next single was recorded with the orchestration of the English composer David Whitaker. Although he was disconcerted by the quality of the songs, there would be no question of collaboration. [citation needed] The next year, in 1997, she announced her retirement and recorded an unplugged show for French television showcasing songs from her final album. According to media sources, Gall died of an infection, while suffering from cancer, in the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.