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Today, The Watsons have continued working in their candidature for Eurovision Song Festival.
Because of Yolanda Watson aka Rennette is French, they are going to prepare a French candidature and they have been taking information about French winners in other contests.
Because of Yolanda Watson aka Rennette is French, they are going to prepare a French candidature and they have been taking information about French winners in other contests.
A song is a product and The Watsons must understand French idiosyncracy to present the best possible song. Looking at the past and adapting music and lyrics to new ages is a good option to create a good product which can represent people from all ages.
The Grandma remembers every French winner clearly and she has been talking to her family about these artists and their songs.
André Claveau (Paris, 17 December 1911-Brassac, 4 July 2003) was a popular singer in France from the 1940s to the 1960s. He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 singing Dors, mon amour with music composed by Pierre Delanoë and lyrics by Hubert Giraud. Winning at the age of 46 years and 76 days, Claveau was the oldest winner of the contest until 1990, being the first and only winner prior to 1990 to triumph in their forties.
More information: André Claveau
Jacqueline Boyer (born Eliane Ducos, 23 April 1941) is a French singer and actress. She is also the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer.
In 1960, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for France singing Tom Pillibi, with music composed by André Popp and lyrics by Pierre Cour. The resulting single reached #33 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1960. At 18 years and 341 days of age at the time of her victory, Boyer was the first teenager to win the contest and the youngest until 1964.
More information: Jacqueline Boyer
Isabelle Aubret (born 27 July 1938) is a French singer.
Born as Thérèse Coquerelle in Lille, France, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 representing France and singing Un premier amour, with music composed by Claude-Henri Vic and lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade. In 1968, she returned to the contest, again representing France, finishing third, and singing La source with music by Daniel Faure and lyrics by Henri Dijan, and Guy Bonnet.
Aubret was a participant in the French national heats for Eurovision in other years. Her first attempt was in 1961 with the song Le gars de n'importe où. She was awarded second place. Another runner-up spot came Aubret's way in 1970 when she teamed up with Daniel Bératta for the song Olivier, Olivia. She was not as successful with her 1976 effort, Je te connais déjà which finished sixth out of seven songs in the second semi-final. Her final challenge for Eurovision was in 1983 with the patriotic France, France which took her to third place. She is currently the oldest living Eurovision winner.
More information: Isabelle Aubret
Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara (29 October 1940-1 August 1996) was a French singer of Italian descent and born in Casablanca, 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 18, she moved from Casablanca to Paris, France, where she eventually started her artistic career as a singer. Boccara also had a brother and a sister in show business, composers Jean-Michel Braque (born Roger Boccara) and Lina Boccara. Her son, Tristan Boccara, was born in the mid-1970s and also became a singer -he is also a composer, pianist and arranger.
In 1964, Boccara had submitted the song Autrefois to the French Eurovision Song Contest selection panel, but she was unsuccessful. Five years later, at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, held in Madrid, Spain, she represented France performing Un jour, un enfant -music by Émile Stern and text by Eddy Marnay. Her song shared first place along with the entries from the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain.
Songwriter Eddy Marnay was her professional partner -most of the songs performed by Boccara were written by him-, but she also performed songs composed by Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Charles Aznavour, Émile Stern, Michel Legrand, Michel Magne, Nino Rota and Mikis Theodorakis.
Cent mille chansons was recorded in 1968 and earned her a Gold disc, while Un jour, un enfant (1969) earned her a Platinum disc and Pour vivre ensemble (1971) earned her another Gold disc. Other of her famous songs include Cherbourg avait raison (1961), Aujourd'hui (1965), Le moulins de mon coeur (1969), L'enfant aux cymbales (1969), Belle du Luxembourg (1969), La croix, l'étoile et le croissant (1970), Venise va mourir (1970), Trop jeune ou trop vieux (1971), Valdemosa (1976), L'année où Piccolli... (Jouait Le choses de la vie) (1978), Un monde en sarabande (1979) and La prière (1979). In the late 1960s, she also recorded Un pays pour nous, a song that was a French version of Somewhere from the musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein, who composed the original melody, declared that Boccara's version was his favorite.
Boccara renewed her links with Eurovision by participating in the French national finals of 1980 -performing Un enfant de France- and 1981 -with Voilà comment je t'aime. However, neither song won. She died in 1996 in Paris, France, aged 55, from a pulmonary infection, after some health problems.
More information: Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara
Marie Myriam (born Myriam Lopes, 8 May 1957, Luluabourg, Belgian Congo, now Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a French singer of Portuguese descent.
Representing France, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with L'oiseau et l'enfant with music by Jean Paul Cara and words by Joe Gracy. The single reached No. 42 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1977.
In 1981, Myriam also represented France in the Yamaha Music Festival with the song Sentimentale; she came in ninth place. In recent years, she has read out the votes of the French Jury at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Myriam made an appearance at the 50th anniversary concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2005 as a guest presenter and performer. The same year, she wrote the introduction to the French edition of The Eurovision Song Contest -The Official History by John Kennedy O'Connor.
More information: Marie Myriam
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