- Lucienne Boyer
Lucienne Boyer (
Paris ,August 18 1903 -Paris ,December 6 1983 ) was a French female singer, best known for her song " Parlez-moi d'amour"Early career
She was born as Émilienne-Henriette Boyer in the Montparnasse Quarter of (
Paris . Her melodious voice gave her the chance, while working as a part-time model, she to sing in the cabarets of Montparnasse. An office position at a prominent Parisian theater opened the door for her and within a few years she was cast as Lucienne Boyer, singing in the major Parisian music halls.Popular success
In 1927, Boyer sang at a concert by the great star
Félix Mayol where she was seen by the American impresarioLee Shubert who immediately offered her a contract to come to Broadway. Boyer spent nine months inNew York City , returning to perform there and toSouth America numerous times throughout the 1930s. By 1933 she had made a large number of recordings forColumbia Records of France including her signature song, " Parlez-moi d'amour". Written by Jean Lenoir, the song won the first-ever Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy.Personal life
Boyer lost her soldier father in
World War I and had to go to work in a munitions factory to help her family get by.In 1939, she married the cabaret singer
Jacques Pills of the very popular duoPills et Tabet . Their daughter Jacqueline, born onApril 23 ,1941 , followed in their footsteps, becoming a very successful singer who won the 1960Eurovision Song Contest .Throughout
World War II , Lucienne Boyer continued to perform in France, but for herJew ish husband, it was a very difficult time. Following theAllied Forces liberation of France, her cabaret career flourished and for another thirty years, she maintained a loyal following. At the age of 73, she sang with her daughter at the famousParis Olympia and appeared on several French television shows.She died on
December 6 1983 in Paris, and was interred in theCimetière de Bagneux inMontrouge , near Paris.References
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