The pop singer France Gall has died

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Sunday, January 7, 2018 05:22

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One of the great figures of the French song, France Gall, “baby doll” blonde of the 60’s and interpreter to success, died Sunday at age 70 from a recurrence of a cancer, many celebrities paying tribute to his talent and his “generosity”.

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“France Gall has crossed time thanks to his sincerity, and his generosity,” responded the president, Emmanuel Macron. “It leaves all of the songs that everyone is familiar with the French, and the example of a life focused on others, those she liked and those she helped”.

The singer, who had several personal tragedies, had been hospitalized in mid-December near Paris, officially for a severe infection.

“There are words we never want to pronounce. France Gall has joined the Paradis blanc on 7 January, after having challenged for the past 2 years, with discretion and dignity, the recurrence of his cancer,” said his communications officer, in a news release Sunday. A reference to the song “Le Paradis Blanc” evoking death and written by the musician Michel Berger, France Gall was the muse.

For the singer Jane Birkin, France Gall was “surprising, candid, mysterious (…) It is sad, sad…”.

Singer, blonde and mischievous of the “sixties”, France Gall had been sorely tried by life: in addition to the deaths in the full glory of a heart attack of her husband Michel Berger to 44 years old in 1992, she discovers her breast cancer the following year. One of the two children she had with Michel Berger, Pauline, dies prematurely in turn cystic fibrosis in 1997.

After this shock, France Gall will be discreet. It was out of this silence in 2015 to defend the musical comedy “Resistant” around the “tubes” of the couple that she formed together with Michel Berger. She appeared in the video – but not on stage – as the narrator remembering his Pygmalion.

On Sunday, the ex-president François Hollande has hailed “a singer of light” and a “big French” which had managed to commit “to good causes and in particular for Africa”, referring to the humanitarian projects of the singer, on this continent.

“Born with Michel Berger”

“France Gall does not belong to a generation: she has been able to address all of them. She has faced the fighting is personal in giving everything to the music,” responded the minister of Culture, Françoise Nyssen.

In Belgium, the minister of foreign Affairs Didier Reynders, “sad”, spoke the voice of the singer “(we) will accompany(it) for a long time”.

Born on 9 October 1947 in Paris, under the name of Isabelle in a family of artists, France Gall recorded his first album in 15 years, and knows her first hit at 16 with “Sacré Charlemagne”, which quickly becomes a “tube” of the playground.

His meeting with Michel Berger in 1973, has been decisive: the “doll” naive sixties found with him a new maturity, as a muse, wife and interpreter for almost 20 years.

Of their union remain unforgettable tubes – “He played the piano standing up”, “Resistant”, “Ella, she has it”, “Babacar”… – 7 albums and many concerts.

She will say “be born with Michel Berger”. It is yet another featured author of the French song which launched her career : Serge Gainsbourg, who wrote to him in 1964, “Don’t listen to the idols” and “drop the girl”, before the famous “Doll of wax, doll of sound”, with which she won the Eurovision in 1965.

Their collaboration did not survive the very equivocal song “lollipops”, written by Gainsbourg and with which she wipes the teasing.