Serge gainsbourg juliette greco biography

French singer and actress (1927–2020)

Musical artist

Juliette Gréco (French:[ʒyljɛtɡʁeko]; 7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Léo Ferré), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by Serge Gainsbourg for Gréco) and "Déshabillez-moi" (1967). She often sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, as well as singers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Her 60-year career concluded with her final worldwide tour titled "Merci", which began in 2015.

As an actress, Gréco played roles in films by French directors such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville.

Early life

Juliette Gréco was born

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Serge Gainsbourg

French musician and actor (1928–1991)

"Gainsbourg" redirects here. For his daughter, the actress, see Charlotte Gainsbourg. For the 2010 biopic, see Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. For the Paris Métro station, see Serge Gainsbourg (Paris Métro).

Serge Gainsbourg
Gainsbourg in 1981
Born	Lucien Ginsburg (1928-04-02)2 April 1928 Paris, France
Died	2 March 1991(1991-03-02) (aged 62) Paris, France
Resting place	Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Other names
Occupations	Singer songwriter actor composer director author poet
Years active	1957–1991
Spouses	Elisabeth "Lize" Levitsky ​ ​ (m. ; div. 1957)​ Béatrice Pancrazzi ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​
Partners
Children	4, including Charlotte
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
Labels	(Universal Music Group)
Musical artist

Serge Gainsb

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French actress and singer Juliette Greco, who has died aged 93, was the face and voice of radical chic postwar Paris, a friend of Left Bank intellectual giants such as Jean-Paul Sartre, and the lover of both the Hollywood studio boss Darryl F Zanuck and jazz legend Miles Davis.

A fresco by French street artist and painter Christian Guemy depicting French singer Juliette Greco in Fresnes Prison, France on July 3 Photo: AFP

Hers was an epic life, with a childhood straight from of one of the tragic songs with which she made her name in the nightclubs of the Latin Quarter as the French capital came back to life after the war.

A young dancer at the Paris ballet school when the Nazis invaded, she was arrested by the Gestapo when she was just 16 after her older sister and her mother - a member of the French Resistance - were sent to a concentration camp.

She survived prison only to be thrown onto the streets of Paris hungry and alone in the coldest winter of the war in nothing but a