Belle du Berry

Bénédicte Grimault 8 April 1966 11 August 2020 who performed as Belle du Berry was a French singer songwriter and actress She was the lead singer of the band Paris Combo She was born in BerryBouy near Bourges in France After studying cinematography in Paris and becoming attracted to the punk movement she joined the band Pervers Polymorphes Inorganisés PPI and took the stage name Belle du Berry At the end of the 1980s the group sang alongside Les Endimanchés at Berry Zèbre a cinema in Belleville In 1992 as part of the musical revue Les Champêtres de Joie she collaborated with Philippe Decouflé to choreograph the ballets for the closing of the 1992 Winter Olympics Du Berry took part in the Cabaret Sauvage from 1994 to 1995 and began her partnership with Australian musician David Lewis performing with him at the Erotica and the Opus café as well as numerous other venues across Paris From these performances emerged Paris Combo which would become highly successful Their second album LivingRoom went gold and toured for ten years Lewis and du Berry worked alongside Roger Planchon and Laurent Pelly in various musical theatrical and cinematic performances Du Berry also wrote for Lokua Kanza and La Trabant In 2009 du Berry wrote a collection of new songs with Lewis as the trumpeter and pianist The pair would eventually step back from touring and play their unreleased songs to a minimalistic level Denis HénaultParizel would become their bass guitarist and Rémy Kaprielan would become their drummer Belle du Berry died of cancer in Le KremlinBicêtre on 11 August 2020 Source Article Belle du Berry from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30