Juliette Gréco is dead. Alongside Barbara and Édith Piaf, the French woman is a legend of the chanson.
The singer was 93 years old.
Juliette Gréco
is
dead
.
The
French chanson legend
died at the age of 93.
In 2015 the
singer
went
on tour for the last time.
Paris / Ramatuelle - France mourns the loss of one of the greatest
chanson singers in
the republic.
Juliette Gréco died on Wednesday at the age of 93 in her home in Ramatuelle in southern France.
The family confirmed the
death to
the AFP news agency.
Gréco was an icon of French chanson
and sang in a league with Édith Piaf and Barbara, who are also dead.
Liesbeth List was also a grande dame of chanson in the Netherlands.
She died after a long illness.
Gréco
became world famous in the 1950s and 60s with songs such as "Sous le ciel de Paris", "L'accordeon", "La Javanaise" and "Deshabillez-moi".
Juliette Gréco is dead: the singer sang about life, love and suffering
At the end of the 1940s, “Si tu t'imagines” or “L'Éternel féminin” were among their greatest hits.
With her distinctive dark voice, the "Lady in Black" - she was so called because she always wore black clothes - sang about love and suffering throughout her career.
Gréco
interpreted songs by the greatest chansonniers as well as the most beautiful texts by well-known writers such as Albert Camus.
Gréco
, who was discovered by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in a cellar bar in the Parisian intellectual district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, remained true to
her style over
65 years of singing: pale face, black hair, black clothes, plus passionate and stormy interpretations.
Chanson legend Juliette Gréco dead: first public appearance at the age of ten
Gréco
was born on February 7th in Montpellier.
At the tender age of ten, she made her first public appearance in 1937.
In 1959 she was the first French
singer
to appear in post-war Germany.
In 2015,
Gréco
went
on a big tour for the last time, it was her farewell tour.
This also led the petite diva to Germany.
She called them - it couldn't be more appropriate - "Merci".
Tony Allen was also a music legend.
The co-founder of Afrobeat died suddenly at the age of 79.
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