Juliette Gréco
| Juliette Gréco | |
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| Background information | |
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7 February 1927 Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France |
| Genres | Chanson |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1949–present |
Juliette Gréco (French: [ʒyljɛt ɡʁeko]; born 7 February 1927) is a French actress and chanson singer.
Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal grandparents. Gréco also became involved in the Résistance, and was caught by the Gestapo, along with her older sister, when she was only 16 years old. She was released from Fresnes prison a few months later, and walked the 8 miles back to Paris. She moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1946 after her mother left the country for Indochina.
Gréco became a devotee of the bohemian fashion of some intellectuals of post-war France. Jean-Paul Sartre said of Gréco that she had "millions of poems in her voice". She was known to many of the writers and artists working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Vian, thus gaining the nickname la Muse de l'existentialisme.
Gréco spent the post liberation years frequenting the Saint Germain cafes, immersing herself in political and philosophical Bohemian culture. As a regular figure at music and poetry venues like Le Tabou on Rue Dauphine, Gréco met and had a relationship with Miles Davis in the early 50's, and was acquainted with Jean Cocteau, even being given a role in Cocteau's film Orphée in 1949. That same year, she began a new singing career with a number of well-known French writers writing lyrics; Raymond Queneau's "Si tu t'imagines" was one of her earliest songs to become popular.
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