Anne Pigalle
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Anne Pigalle is a French chanteuse (singer) and multimedia artist (writer, musician, art performer, poet, photographer and painter).
Anne Pigalle grew up in Paris (in Montmartre precisely). She was brought up in an artistic home.
Before she was ten years old, she was selected by the school choir who said she had 'the golden voice of an angel'. As a teenager, she played guitar in an all-girl band, hanging out with Punk musicians in Paris and London. She appeared in cult magazines such as ID Magazine No. 2, Grabuge and '.
In the early 1980s, she moved to London, performed the clubs, made some recordings with Adrian Sherwood of On-U Sound and recorded for Channel 4 an opera called 'The Kiss', written by Michael Nyman and produced by David Cunningham from The Flying Lizards. She then signed a contract with Trevor Horn’s ZTT Records and released an album on ZTT/Island Records in 1985 called Everything Could Be So Perfect, which established her as the modern Edith Piaf. The poster for the single He! Stranger appeared all over London, picturing her in front of a red velvet curtain, and it has been mentioned to be reminiscent of Lynch's later Twin Peaks.
Anne Pigalle then appeared in many magazines, including covers such as ID Magazine.
In 1986, Miss Pigalle revamped the famous club, the Café de Paris in Piccadilly, London, with a new concept 'Les Nuits Du Mercredi'. It attracted thousands, including Andy Warhol. By then, Anne Pigalle favoured singing at vintage clubs of an old-fashioned glamour; in Tokyo, promoters found a similar club to the Cafe de Paris for her to perform in. She also played at Ronnie Scott's, before an audience including Joni Mitchell.
She was photographed by Lord Snowdon, Mario Testino and Nick Knight; her music and image were used in Japanese TV commercials for Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld. Around that time she toured Japan and Europe. In 1989, she performed for TV arts programme The South Bank Show for the anniversary of the French Revolution. Other TV appearances included The Tube (in the UK), Ardisson's Bains de Minuit (in France), Japan and Mexico, etc.
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