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Frida Boccara, born Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara in Casablanca in 1940, was a female singer with a contralto voice. She held citizenship in both Morocco and France. Her musical career was centered on the chanson genre, and she performed in German, Italian, and French. Boccara was associated with the record label Universal Music Group and received the award of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 and the Sanremo Music Festival 1964. Boccara died in the 20th arrondissement of Paris in 1996 due to respiratory disease. She is buried at the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux.
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Acting · Casablanca, Morocco
Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara (29 October 1940 – 1 August 1996) was a Moroccan-born French singer of Italian descent, who performed and recorded in a number of languages, including French, Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch and Russian. Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco, into a Jewish family of Italian origin that lived in Tunisia before they settled in Morocco. When she was 17, she…
Known for
- Bonjour la France — Self2004
- La Chance aux chansons — Self1984
- La Chance aux chansons — Self (archive footage)1984
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self1975
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
- Samedi soir — Self1971
- Discorama — Self1959
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1940
- Active to
- 1996
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22,284
- Total plays
- 143,079
Tags
Frida Boccara was born on October 29, 1940 in Casablanca, Morocco. She started and succeeded her career in France, however. At the Eurovision Song Contest held in Madrid, Spain in 1969 she represented France and performed "Un jour, un enfant" (One day a child) - music by Émile Stern and text by Eddy Marnay. Her song (along with the entries from Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Spain) shared first place. She died on August 1, 1996 in Paris of a pulmonary infection. <a href="https://www.last.f
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,194x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,700x
- 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
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,999x
- Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
· 2015 · cited 4,268x
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Key facts
- Born
- Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara , ( 1940-10-29 ) 29 October 1940, Casablanca , French Morocco , (today Kingdom of Morocco)
- Died
- 1 August 1996 (1996-08-01) (aged 55), Paris, France
- Genres
- Chanson , French jazz , folk music
- Occupation
- Singer
- Years active
- 1959–1996
- Labels
- Universal-Philips-Polydor Disques Yvon Chateigner Edina Music – Nocturne
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Encyclopedic overview
Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara (29 October 1940 – 1 August 1996) was a French singer of Italian descent, who performed and recorded in a number of languages, including French, Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch and Russian.
Early life
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