Véronique Sanson

Véronique Marie Line Sanson born 24 April 1949 is a threetime Victoires de la Musique awardwinning French singersongwriter and record producer with an avid following in her native country Ten years after Barbara Véronique Sanson became one of the first French female singersongwriters to break into stardom with her debut album Amoureuse in 1972 She also became one of the most successful and most prominent members of the Seventies Nouvelle chanson française New French chanson alongside Alain Souchon Bernard Lavilliers Jacques Higelin Michel Polnareff Catherine Lara Yves Duteil Maxime Le Forestier Renaud William Sheller Michel Jonasz Michel Berger HubertFélix Thiéfaine Louis Chédid or Francis Cabrel Unlike most previous French artists of the Sixties Yéyé era who mostly released EPs consisting of a collection of singles Bsides and covers Sanson and her counterparts of the nouvelle chanson française established the dominance of singersongwriters on the Seventies French charts thanks to albums with fulllength artistic statements One of her songs Amoureuse was covered in English in 1973 by singer Kiki Dee and became a major hit in the United Kingdom and has been covered since by various other singers from Polly Brown 1973 to Olivia NewtonJohn 1974 Pete Townshend 1974 Linda Martin 1996 and Amanda Abbs with Illusive 1997 In 1974 Patti Dahlstrom recorded a second version with her own lyrics entitled Emotion which was covered by Helen Reddy 1974 and Shirley Bassey 1975 Many other covers of Amoureuse have been recorded in French German Spanish Dutch or Japanese Véronique Sanson plays piano and guitar Both her parents René and Colette Sanson were members of the Resistance during the German occupation of France Before the war René Sanson was a French diplomat in The Hague When the Germans invaded the Netherlands he sent a coded message to warn the French government that Germany was planning to attack France from across the Belgian border This very message was decoded by Colette a communication worker at the French Ministry of War It was not until a few months later that they met in person in a resistance cell Both became prominent within the Resistance In 1944 after the bombing of a German train Colette was arrested and sentenced to death by the occupation force before she managed to escape After the liberation of Paris René Sanson was appointed Minister of Labour in Charles de Gaulles provisional government The couple married in 1945 As a lawyer and an economist René Sanson remained involved in politics as Member of Parliament and Deputy of the 13th district of Paris until 1967 In 1970 he was in charge of the French delegation at the Osaka World Expo Véronique first visited Japan on this occasion Source Article Véronique Sanson from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA