The French singer France Gall died

On January 7, at the age of 70, French singer France Gall died, AFP reports. At the end of December, she was hospitalized with a severe pulmonary infection, which appeared against the backdrop of a cancer relapse, with whom the singer fought for the last two years of her life.

• France Gall was born on October 9, 1947 in the family of a songwriter Robert Gall, who composed for Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.
• Gall began her musical career in 1963, and two years later she won the Eurovision Supervision contest, speaking from Luxembourg, with the composition “Popee de Cire, Poupée de Son”, written for her by Sergey Gensbur. This song was then translated into many languages, including Muslim Magomaev, Russian Cavered by its Russian cover. Another song “Les Sucettes”, written by Gall Gensbur, caused a big scandal in France because of the sexual subtext read in it.
• By the end of the 1960s, Career France Gall was declining, but in 1974 the singer met the young composer Michel Berget, who became her producer and husband. The next two decades, Gall, together with Berger, until his death in 1992, released more than a dozen studio and concert albums, including hits such as Babacar, Débranche, Tout Pour La Musique, La Déclation D`Amour and Résiste.
• In 1994, France Gall became the gentleman of the Order of the Legion of Honor, the highest French award.