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France Gall is a French yé-yé singer, born in Paris on 9 October 1947.

France has had a very prolific music career, having released 11 studio albums. A French counterpart to Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera, she produced feel-good pop hits that mainly appealed to European teenage audiences from the early '60s through to the late eighties. It was the collaboration with her husband Michel Berger that really rocketed Gall the height of fame.

The winning duo's success ended with Berger's death in 1992, but Gall continued to forge a name for herself, and kept the memory of her late husband alive in subsequent tributes and charity work.

Gall learnt to play the piano and guitar at