France Gall, his daughter Pauline, his pain behind his biggest success Gala

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France Gall has lost his daughter Pauline in 1997. The young woman was 19 years old. His disease, cystic fibrosis, has particularly inspired her album Babacar, released in 1987, and his biggest success.

The loss of Pauline has affected the life of France Gall and Michel Berger. The daughter of the singer and songwriter died in 1997, at the age of 19 years of age, with cystic fibrosis. In 1987 fate Babacar, an album at the serious tone and greater success of the icon of years yéyé, as noted by Le Parisien in its columns on Monday, January 8. The couple suffers from the illness of their daughter, an evil which is felt in this album. “It was devastating to talk to the drive without being able to tell the real reasons of this dark side, then explained France Gall. There was a lag time terrible between the artist filled and the mother torn. It showed on our faces : we were less gay on the photos “, she remarked.

Later, on the occasion of a documentary which was dedicated in 2001, broadcast on France 3, France Gall is back with his poignant words about the tragedy that she experienced. “We do not return to live such a thing, said she, we do not return to live it, because this is precisely the thing that you want and cannot live.Everyone says that this is impossible, inhuman… And yet I live, ‘ said she.

Sunday, January 7, France Gall has died at the age of 70 years. The singer had been hospitalized since December 19, last to a severe infection.

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