Name Janet Woollacott | Role Singer | |
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Spouse Claude Francois (m. 1960–1967) Similar People Claude Francois, Kathalyn Jones, Gilbert Becaud, France Gall | ||
Janet Edith Woollacott (Carlton, England (1939-11-04)4 November 1939 – Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine (2011-11-13)13 November 2011) was a British-born French singer of the 1960s to 2000s.
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Biography
Woollacott was a dancer on the Côte d'Azur aged 20 when she met Cloclo, Claude François in 1959, they married the following year. Only weeks before François became a major star Woollacott left Cloclo for Gilbert Bécaud, with whom she had a daughter, Jennifer Bécaud. The split was the subject of Claude François' bitter song "Je sais" (1964). Woollacott later wrote a book detailing the time shared with François. François never remarried and died in 1978.
In later years she remarried three more times; to the producer Jean-Paul Barkoff, the Charlot comedian Jean Sarrus and the composer Dominique Perrier. From 1994, she collaborated with Stone Edge, later renamed to Stone Age, the French/Breton Celtic techno band formed by her husband Dominique Perrier, with which she regularly performed and recorded songs, appearing on the band's best known album, "Time Travellers", as "Maureen" (1997).
She died after a long illness on 13 November 2011(2011-11-13) (aged 72), and was buried three days later in the Clamart cemetery.