France Gall was a French singer who started her music career as a teenager and over a career lasting five decades released dozens of studio albums and live albums. Over nearly two decades she collaborated with singer Michel Berger.
She was internally selected to represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 in Naples with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son, which won with 32 points. It was the first winning song since "Een beetje" by Teddy Scholten that was not a ballad.
Post-Contest, she continued to release music but with greater success in Germany than her home country and signed with a new record company in 1969, but did not see immediate success. Throughout the 1970s she was a regular in stage musicals before returning to the music world in the 1980s. Her best known song from this decade was "Ella elle là", a tribute to American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, which has been covered by many artists including Belgian singer Kate Ryan.
She continued to work well into the 1990s before announcing her retirement in 1997. She died on 7 January 2018 at the age of 70 from breast cancer, having endured several battles with the disease.
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