She entered into a pact with her husband to alternate their professional projects to take care of their daughter in the hope that a cure would be found. In 1993, she considered appearing on screen for a cinematographic collaboration with her best friend, screenwriter Telsche Boorman. Between 1973 and 1992, she collaborated with singer-songwriter Michel Berger. Gall's victory, as well as the numerous translations of the song, brought her international fame in Europe and beyond. 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… Please enable JavaScript to view the Examples of this mixed-genre style included "Jazz à gogo" (by Alain Goraguer and Robert Gall) and "Mes premières vraies vacances" (by Jacques Datin and Maurice Vidalin). 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. You were terrible! In 1965 she was chosen to represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest in Naples. Though Gall's high, breathy voice was admittedly somewhat limited, she made the most of it. 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. Her father, the lyricist Robert Gall, wrote songs for Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. [citation needed], At the same time, Gall made her live debut, opening for Sacha Distel in Belgium. La Compagnie went bankrupt within three years of its creation, co-founder and singer Hugues Aufray blaming the failure entirely on Norbert Saada.[14]. She died of cancer that she has been fighting for two years. Although struggling in her home country, Gall regularly recorded in Germany from 1966 to 1972, in particular with the composer and orchestrator Werner Müller. Her daughter Pauline was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis soon after she was born. Gall had several other releases in France in 1968, none of which aroused any great interest. France Gall n'a pas encore 18 ans. France was subsequently signed to Philips. [11], Also in 1966, Gall released another song written by Gainsbourg called “Les Sucettes” (Lollipops). The early seventies continued to be a barren period for Gall. 20, July–August 1988. Elaborate orchestrations by Alain Goraguer blended styles, permitting her to navigate between jazz, children's songs, and anything in between. She decided to commit to the performances at Bercy and promoted the songs that she and Berger created together. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. [9] Gainsbourg then sang an anti-capital punishment song with Gall, "Qui se souvient de Caryl Chessman?" [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. Au cours de la soirée, France Gall a été giflée par une concurrente et quittée par Claude François. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. Luxembourg 1965 –, Martine Bordeneuve. [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. Although Gall was strongly affected by Berger's death, she wanted to complete the project they had planned. It was given its first and only airing (due to copyright issues) on 20 April 1996 on the French television channel M6. [12] Gall was only 18 at the time the song was released and maintained that she was ignorant about the song's double entendre. The show played for one month at Palais des congrès de Paris. The Eurovision Song Contest is organized by the It was released in November and became a hit, selling 200,000 copies. [16] They had two children together, Pauline and Raphaël. [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. From the 1970s onwards, Gall started regularly visiting Senegal. 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. [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. France Gall jeune représente le Luxembourg au Concours Eurovision de la chanson en mars 1965. "[4], Although the delivery during the live show may not have been Gall's strongest performance — one critic wrote that Gall's performance was "far from perfect"[5] — another noted that her voice was out of tune and her complexion pale,[6] and when Gall called Claude François, her lover at the time, immediately after the performance, he shouted at her, "You sang off key. European Broadcasting Union, Evidemment, la carrière de France Gall ne se résume pas seulement à l’Eurovision. The small country, land-locked between Belgium, France and Germany, often had to rely on 'talent from outside'. France Gall won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg in 1965. Quoted in French Wikipedia article Poupée de cire, poupée de son, access 20 February 2012. [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. Gainsbourg also secretly recorded Gall's laughter to use on "Pauvre Lola", a track on his 1964 album Gainsbourg Percussions.[2]. From the ten songs proposed to her, she chose Gainsbourg's "Poupée de cire, poupée de son. The repertoire featured songs written exclusively by Berger though Gall included her own versions of songs originally performed by others. 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. 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 … [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. [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. The songs "Résiste" and "Il jouait du piano debout" ("He played the piano standing") quickly became French pop standards. The controversy over this performance overshadowed her release that year of Gainsbourg's poetic Néfertiti. 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. Gainsbourg (biography). Il fut remporté par le Luxembourg, avec la chanson Poupée de cire, poupée de son, interprétée par France Gall. France: Marie Myriam discusses Destination Eurovision appearance and France Gall. La chanteuse a notamment perdu son petit-ami de l'époque à cause du concours. [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. It brought Luxembourg its second victory in the contest. He encouraged her to record four tracks with the French jazz musician, arranger and composer Alain Goraguer. La chanteuse France Gall se produit en mars 1965 dans le cadre de l'Eurovision. Gall married her collaborator and songwriter, Michel Berger, on 22 June 1976. En 1965, France Gall est propulsée devant l’Europe pour chanter « Poupée de cire, poupée de son », une chanson composée par Serge Gainsbourg. 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. 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. " [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). [21], Note: Entries scored out are when Luxembourg did not compete, Psychedelic era and transition to adulthood, All Kind of Everything: The Irish Eurovision Web Site. 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. In 1985, Gall joined Chanteurs Sans Frontières, on the initiative of Valérie Lagrange. [citation needed]. In 1972, Gall, for the last time, recorded songs by Gainsbourg, "Frankenstein" and "Les Petits ballons", but these also failed to chart. The first airplay of France's first single, "Ne sois pas si bête" ("Don't Be So Stupid"), occurred on her 16th birthday. 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). In her post-Eurovision career, Gall proved to be a diverse entertainer, showing her talent in films and musicals. J'étais très amoureuse, je pleure. Gall received points from 10 of the 18 participating countries. Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (French pronunciation: ​[izabɛl ʒənvjɛv maʁi an gal]; 9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé singer. France / by Roy Knoops - January 10, 2018 12:06 pm. Elle fait 1 m 60 et pèse 42 kilos. Her songs "Des gens bien élevés", "La Manille et la révolution", "Zozoï" and "Éléphants" were largely ignored. [citation needed] All the songs she performed were written by Michel Berger from Double Jeu, and from their discographies. In spring 1963, Robert Gall encouraged his daughter to record songs and send the demos to the music publisher Denis Bourgeois. [16] Gall was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 1993, which was successfully treated. Godard initially refused, but later agreed, and directed a dreamy, picturesque video titled "Plus Oh!" Plébiscitée par le jury à la majorité absolue, elle se trouve propulsée à la première place. [18] In this show, France sang "Maria vai com as outras" the original, Brazilian (Portuguese) version of "Plus haut que moi". Gall had already made her mind up that "It will be him and nobody else". 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. [citation needed]. Aujourd’hui, 7 janvier, c’est une grande dame de la chanson qui nous quitte mais ses chansons resteront à jamais gravées dans notre mémoire. 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?") Elle a enchaîné des tubes et de magnifiques chansons grâce à son conjoint Michel Berger. Il est remporté par le Luxembourg, avec la chanson Poupée de cire, poupée de son, interprétée par France Gall. In 1982, Gall rehearsed in the Palais des Sports of Paris to present Tout pour la musique, an innovative spectacle marked by its use of electronic music. 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. A label change from Philips to BASF in 1972 didn't help matters ..."[9]. Mason wrote, No longer a teenager, but without a new persona to redefine herself with, (and without the help of Gainsbourg, whose time was taken by his own albums and those of his wife Jane Birkin), Gall floundered both commercially and artistically. Le Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1965 (en italien, Gran Premio Eurovisione della canzone, Grand Prix Eurovision de la chanson) a constitué la 10 e édition du concours. 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". 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. Meanwhile, the two artists had fallen in love and married on 22 June 1976, the only marriage for both. [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". French artist of Portuguese descent, and Eurovision … 07 janvier 2018 France Gall: Pourquoi sa victoire à l’Eurovision a brisé son couple avec Claude Francois That same year, she decided to headline at the Paris Olympia. The project was cancelled after Disney's death in 1966. L’épopée Eurovision et la perte de vitesse. Although he was disconcerted by the quality of the songs, there would be no question of collaboration. 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. A year later, she went back on stage and performed in a new show in the Salle Pleyel in Paris featuring new musicians. 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. 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. Il se déroula le samedi 20 mars 1965, à Naples, en Italie. "[7] — the song impressed the jury and it took the Grand Prix. Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall , known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé singer. 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. The only daughter of her family, France had two brothers: Patrice and Philippe. (1967), "Ja, ich sing" ("Yes, I sing"), "A Banda (Zwei Apfelsinen im Haar)" ("Two oranges in my hair"), "Der Computer Nr. 56 countries and an additional 34 Associates in Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas. 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. France GALL est née le 9 octobre à Paris, sous le signe de la Balance. 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. [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. The Eurovision 1965-winner France Gall, born as Isabelle Gall, died this morning in Paris at the age of 70. During a later radio broadcast, she asked him for his opinion on songs which her then producer wanted her to record. Il se déroule le samedi 20 mars 1965, à Naples, en Italie. With 32 points, she won the contest a safe distance from the runner-up, the UK's Kathy Kirby, who only received 26 points. 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. 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. Certains l’ignorent peut-être mais France Gall avait représenté le Luxembourg lors du célèbre concours de l’Eurovision, en 1965. Elle est sélectionnée pour représenter le Luxembourg au 10e Concours Eurovision de la chanson et choisi le titre Poupée de cire, poupée de son. She started her music career at 16 when her father encouraged her to send demo recordings to a well-known music publisher. This planned project was never completed due to Boorman's death in 1996. 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. 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. C’est le début d’une ascension vertigineuse. [citation needed]. 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. They wrote "Bébé requin" ("Baby Shark"), a song which met with some success for Gall. Although she was the first artist to be recorded in France for Atlantic Records in 1971, her singles "C'est cela l'amour" (1971) and "Chasse neige" (1971), faltered in the charts.