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France Gall

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Also known as Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall

French singer

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France Gall was a French female vocalist and songwriter whose career spanned from 1963 to 2000. Born on October 9, 1947, and deceased on January 7, 2018, she was associated with genres including French pop, ye-ye, chanson, disco, and early pop/rock. Her musical output included five works, with one notable entry in Open Library records referencing Michel Berger.

Her discography attracted significant attention, accumulating 468,406 listeners and 7,612,332 plays on Last.fm. The artist was tagged with descriptors such as "french," "pop," and "female vocalists." France Gall maintained a social media following of 50,400 and was referenced by 609 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Michel Berger

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
France
Active from
1947-10-09
Active to
2018-01-07
am popchansonchanson françaisediscoearly pop/rockeurovision

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
468,406
Total plays
7,612,332

Tags

frenchpopfemale vocalistsye-yefrench pop

France Gall (born Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall on 9 October, 1947 in Paris, France - died 7 January 2018) was an influential singer who performed for many decades. She notably represented Luxembourg in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with "Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son"; that winning song was just one of many that she performed which had been written by Serge Gainsbourg. Her career spanned roughly forty years, primarily in France, but she was best known over the world for the songs which

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,997x

  2. A New Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) Based on a European/North American Multicenter Study

    · 1993 · cited 7,812x

  3. <i>MGMT</i> Gene Silencing and Benefit from Temozolomide in Glioblastoma

    · 2005 · cited 6,303x

  4. Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    · 2016 · cited 5,082x

  5. Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure

    · 2020 · cited 4,525x

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Encyclopedic overview

Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall ( French: [fʁɑ̃s ɡal] ), was a French yé-yé and pop singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", representing Luxembourg. Later in her career, she worked with singer-songwriter Michel Berger, whom she married in 1976. Her most successful singles include "Il jouait du piano debout", "Ella, elle l'a" and "Évidemment".

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “France Gall” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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