A figure in the French song is leaning. Singer Nicole Croisille died of “a long illness,” her agent in the AFP said on Tuesday, June 3 to Wednesday, June 4 in Paris. He was 88 years old and left a long career as a dancer, actress and singer. Without a doubt, it is in the music that will have marked the general public most, signing some of the great hits of the 1970s.
Chosen “Plus Belle de Voix of 1975”, embodied the singers called in voice, in a record against the tide of the wave Yéyé, but that will be fashionable two decades later with his young Patricia Kaas or Lara Fabian.
At the beginning of the 1960s, he made sure of the first part of Jacques Brel in Olympia, but fought to enter a landscape obsessed with the Yeyés. To a meeting that changes everything …
• A man and a woman – 1966
He crossed the path of Claude Lelouch that Nicole Croisille was experiencing her first musical success, and no less important. In duet with Pierre Barouh, she plays the flagship song of the cult movie A man and a woman (1966).
This unforgettable “dabadabada” will make Nicole Croisille a forced visit of the director’s genericians: Live to live, Both, Itinerary of a spoiled child, There are days and moons…
“His voice, so unique, was the breath of my films, the music of my emotions. Together, we created moments of eternity. His unique seal gave life to the images, transforming each sequence into a moment of grace,” he praised Claude Lelouch on Instagram.
• Tell me about him – 1973
It was at the end of the 1970s that Nicole Crosses finally tried success as a popular singer. Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with producer Claude Dejacques and a series of composers, including Francis Lai, signing a series of tubes whose kicks are given by Tell me about him (he just thinks about you).
• Telephone Me – 1975
It can be the most striking tube in Nicole Croisille’s career. In Call meHe addresses the lover who wants to join by leaving his official partner. A sulphurous theme, in the corsadled society of the 1970s: “I hoped it was scandalous, but there was no. Music was so strong that people adopted them without paying much attention to what he said,” he analyzed in the columns of the office in 2016.
“With my artistic director, our idea was to show the image of a free and supposed woman, who only depends on her choices …”
• I need you, I need it – 1976
A bias found in this 1976 song. Oscillating between intense verses in piano-vaice and catchy choir, Nicole Croisille tells the story of a woman divided by two loves. And again he ignored social pressure: “I need it, I need you // but that is not said …”
• I didn’t say my last love word – 1979
“You, the day you come // that I still do not know // but I hope it is very strong,” Nicole Croisille sang in this 1979 title.
“I only sang love songs and I know what I brought to people,” said this convinced bachelor, who never married and had no children in Paris in 2017.
With the Blues Business Man – The tube of Starmania For her to adapt “Itinerary of a spoiled child” -, he signed his last great popular success in 1985. In a voice that has become more hoarse, he returned to Jazz with Jazzille (1987), Black and white (1991) and Bossa Nova (Winter bossa2008).
At the end of his career, this work executioner left the song for the boards. It happened in several Parisian theaters. In 1992, he realized “his dream” when playing the main role of Hi Dolly!The American musical. In 2019, at 83, he played a former Lover of Michel Sardou in a vaodevil of Sacha Guitry.
Source: BFM TV
