[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. France: Marie Myriam discusses Destination Eurovision appearance and France Gall. [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. Si l'auteur et l'interprète sont Français, la victoire est pour le Luxembourg, que représente France Gall. 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. She also worked for S.O.S Ethiopie for the benefit of Ethiopia under the aegis of Renaud. "[3] On 20 March 1965, Gainsbourg, Gall, and Goraguer attended the finals of the song contest in Naples, where the song was "allegedly booed in rehearsals for straying so far from the sort of song usually heard in the Contest at this point. She decided to commit to the performances at Bercy and promoted the songs that she and Berger created together. [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. "J'ai été huée et giflée". 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. [12] Gall was only 18 at the time the song was released and maintained that she was ignorant about the song's double entendre. Plébiscitée par le jury à la majorité absolue, elle se trouve propulsée à la première place. In 1972, Gall, for the last time, recorded songs by Gainsbourg, "Frankenstein" and "Les Petits ballons", but these also failed to chart. Gainsbourg invited France Gall on television to sing a medley of old songs from their time together, which included "Poupee de cire, Poupee de son". France Gall a très mal vécu sa victoire à l'Eurovision. Sa mère, Cécile Berthier, est la fille de Paul Berthier (1884-1953), cofondateur de la Manécanterie des Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois. The show played for one month at Palais des congrès de Paris. Gall had two children, the youngest of which, Pauline, died of cystic fibrosis in 1997 at age 19. 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". In the 1980s she spent considerable effort supporting humanitarian causes. Nous sommes au milieu des années 1960, France Gall n'a même pas encore 18 ans. The Eurovision 1965-winner France Gall, born as Isabelle Gall, died this morning in Paris at the age of 70. Gall took a break from singing in the early 1990s and did not record any more for several years to come. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. 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"). They wrote "Bébé requin" ("Baby Shark"), a song which met with some success for Gall. She did, however, make an album called Double Jeu with Berger released 12 June 1992. Her daughter Pauline was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis soon after she was born. The repertoire featured songs written exclusively by Berger though Gall included her own versions of songs originally performed by others. 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. France / by Roy Knoops - January 10, 2018 12:06 pm. "), about the death row prisoner. Though there has been controversy that Gall sang and won for Luxembourg rather than her native France, … 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. At the time, Bourgeois was working for the label as artistic director for Serge Gainsbourg and assumed this role for Gall as well. J'étais très amoureuse, je pleure. Her father, the lyricist Robert Gall, wrote songs for Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. In 1985, Gall joined Chanteurs Sans Frontières, on the initiative of Valérie Lagrange. In 1993, she considered appearing on screen for a cinematographic collaboration with her best friend, screenwriter Telsche Boorman. Video of the performance and lyrics of the song. 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). [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. Gall leave us an iconic legacy throughout her musical career. [16] They had two children together, Pauline and Raphaël. 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. New authors Frank Thomas and Jean-Michel Rivat [fr] were brought on board. Although Gall had insisted she did not want to become involved in film work, this was the only project which appealed to her. Elaborate orchestrations by Alain Goraguer blended styles, permitting her to navigate between jazz, children's songs, and anything in between. Coming from a musical family, she had her first hit at age 16. VidWit Video Channel Follow Us On http://www.twitter.com/#!/VidWit Quoted in French Wikipedia article Poupée de cire, poupée de son, access 20 February 2012. 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. " 56 countries and an additional 34 Associates in Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas. The first airplay of France's first single, "Ne sois pas si bête" ("Don't Be So Stupid"), occurred on her 16th birthday. Although the Eurovision Song Contest officially started in 1956, Eurovision really started in 1965, when France Gall won for Luxembourg singing a Serge Gainsbourg-penned “yé-yé” (the genre name for French pop inspired by British beat music) song. That same year, she decided to headline at the Paris Olympia. She died of cancer that she has been fighting for two years. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. [citation needed], At the same time, Gall made her live debut, opening for Sacha Distel in Belgium. Evidemment, la carrière de France Gall ne se résume pas seulement à l’Eurovision. Gall was born in Paris on 9 October 1947, to a highly musical family. After a year in Los Angeles, she released her eighth studio album, France, in 1996. The controversy over this performance overshadowed her release that year of Gainsbourg's poetic Néfertiti. 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. She had a successful German career with songs by Horst Buchholz and Giorgio Moroder: "Love, l'amour und Liebe" (1967), "Hippie, hippie" (1968), "Ich liebe dich, so wie du bist" ("I love you the way you are") (1969) and "Mein Herz kann man nicht kaufen" ("My heart is not for sale") (1970).