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Marie Laforêt is tagged as: french, female vocalists, chanson francaise, ye-ye, french 60s

Marie Laforêt, born Maïténa Doumenach on 5 October 1939 in Soulac-sur-Mer, is a French singer and actress.|Her career began accidentally in 1959 when she replaced her sister at the last minute in a French radio talent contest Naissance d’une étoile and won. Director Louis Malle then cast the young starlet in the film he was shooting at the time, Liberté, a project he finally abandonded, making Laforêt’s first appearance on screen opposite actor Alain Delon in René Clément’s 1960 drama Plein Soleil.|After this film she became very popular and interpreted many roles in the 1960s. She married director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, who cast her in some of his own works, including La Fille aux Yeux d’Or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes), based on the Balzac story, which would become her nickname.|In her second film, Saint Tropez Blues, accompanied by a young Jacques Higelin at the guitar, she sang the title song and immediately started releasing singles, her first hit being 1963’s Les Vendanges de l’Amour. Her songs offered a more mature, poetic, tender alternative to the light, teenage yé-yé tunes charting in France at the time. Her melodies borrowed more from exotic folk music, especially South American and Eastern European, than from contempora...
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Top 10 Marie Laforêt Songs
Manchester Et Liverpool
Mon Amour Mon Ami
Les Vendanges De L'Amour
Ivan, Boris et moi
La Tendresse
La Plage
Katy Cruelle
Viens
Viens Sur La Montagne
Viens Viens
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Top 10 Marie Laforêt Albums
Les vendanges de l'amour
Gold
Cd Story
Best Of 2 CD
L'intégrale Festival 1960/1970 - CD 2/7
Fragile de I à L
Fragile De L À P
Master Serie
Marie Laforet
Volume 2
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