In the early 1960s, she appeared on television for the first time among the students of the Petit Conservatoire de Mireille. Noticed by Georges Brassens - her first fan, in 1962 she performed the first part of her recital at the Olympia. In 1965, she took part in the Antibes Rose d'Or competition. She does not win the first prize, but the title she sings that evening,
No c'est rien
is noticed by Barbra Streisand. Between two performances of
Funny Girl
on Broadway, she recorded the English version entitled
Free again,
which she made a success.
From the 70s to the 90s, Jacqueline Danno will perform in the United States, but also in Poland, Germany, Japan and Russia. She is then considered as an ambassador of French song in the same way as Juliette Gréco. In each of its countries, it has included in its program extracts from some of the twenty albums that make up its discography, but also verses that have crossed the generations, starting with those created by Édith Piaf. Finally, in 1972, under the pseudonym Vanessa Hachloum, she participated in
To End Work,
a disc that has become cult, bringing together hijacked versions of the most famous songs of the revolutionary proletariat.
At the same time, she appeared in around fifteen television films and in around twenty films, including
Michel Mardore's
Le Mariage à la mode,
where her interpretation of a woman who declared herself openly homosexual would trigger a series of controversies in 1973.
On stage, she has also performed
Phèdre
,
Andromaque as
well as more contemporary pieces such as
Les Oiseaux de la lune
by Marcel Aymé,
Les Noces de sang
by Federico Garcia Lorca and
L'Opéra de quat'sous
by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Her moment of glory remained however that evening in 1964 when, at the end of a performance of
Lucrèce Borgia
by Victor Hugo, of which she was the headliner, she received a standing ovation from an audience of students who, in her honor, immediately organized a monomial in the streets of the capital.
Major productions marked the last years of his career: Jérôme Savary chose him to play Sally Bowles in
Cabaret
, at the Mogador theater, where she gave the reply to Marc Lavoine.
He staged it again in Chaillot, in
La Périchole
by Jacques Offenbach.
For his part, Robert Hossein engaged her in an adaptation of
Crime et Châtiment
, in Marigny.
He finally directed him to the Stade de France by entrusting him with the role of Ben-Hur's mother.
In the process, he asked Gaëlle Billaut-Danno, his daughter in the city, to also be on stage.
A symbolic passing of the torch since the latter now ensures the family succession.