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Francoise Madeleine Hardy (born 17 January 1944) is a French singer-songwriter. She made her musical debut in the early 1960s on Disques Vogue and found immediate success with her song "Tous les garçons et les filles". As a leading figure of the yé-yé movement, Hardy "found herself at the very forefront of the French music scene" and became "France's most exportable female singing star", recording in various languages, appearing in movies, touring throughout Europe, and gaining plaudits from musicians such as Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and Mick Jagger. With the aid of photographer Jean-Marie Périer, Hardy began modeling and soon became a popular fashion icon as well.
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Delta is the fruit of a necessary wandering, and of a return to oneself. The album was born from the sound of pianos, from the storms of reality, those of outside life and those of passion.
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Juliette Greco (7 February 1927 - 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Leo Ferre), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by Serge Gainsbourg for Greco) and "Deshabillez-moi" (1967). She often sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prevert and Boris Vian, as well as singers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Her 60-year career came to an end in 2015 when she began her last worldwide tour titled "Merci".
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Celine Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. She is renowned for her powerful, technically skilled vocals, and remains the best-selling Canadian recording artist and one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million worldwide.
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Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 - 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was a French singer and actress, born in Egypt to Italian parents. She won the Miss Egypt beauty contest in 1954 and began a 31-year singing career in 1956, selling 170 million albums and singles worldwide. She died by suicide in 1987.
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Yvette Guilbert (born Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, 20 January 1865 - 3 February 1944) was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Epoque.
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Edith Piaf (19 December 1915 - 10 October 1963) was a French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.
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Francesca Gagnon (born August 6, 1957) is a Canadian singer and theatre actress featured in Cirque du Soleil's Alegría and Midnight Sun. During her career of more than two decades, she has recorded several solo albums and toured three continents singing in French, English, Italian and Spanish.