Jeanette (singer)

Jeanette Dimech ( born October 10, 1951 in London), stage name Jeanette, is a Spanish singer.

Biography

Since their grandparents operated an import - export business, her parents lived first in England, where she was born, and then in Chicago and Los Angeles, where she grew up. The twelve -year-old Jeanette returned to her parents' divorce with the mother back to Barcelona.

Mid-1960s, she learned to play guitar and began composing her own songs. It was based on the American folk music. They drew inspiration from Bob Dylan, Donovan, and the Byrds. Later, she joined as a singer of a student band called " Pic -Nic " in 1967 had a great success with a folk version of the Spanish children's song Cállate niña. Other well-known songs were Amanecer and No digas nada.

When the band split in the late 1960s, she moved with her ​​husband, the Hungarian musician Laszlo Kristof, to Vienna. The early 1970s, she launched a solo career and had with their first single Soy rebelde a great success in the Spanish-speaking countries. With the French and English versions, she was also known in Europe. This and other songs written by Manuel Alejandro, such as El muchacho de los ojos tristes and Estoy triste, she established as an artist in Spain.

Porque te vas

Porque te vas your greatest success ( "Because you 're leaving " ), however, was composed by José Luis Perales and remained relatively unnoticed when recording in 1974. Only when the song 1977 in the film Raise ravens ... used ( Cría cuervos ) by Carlos Saura and this film in Cannes Award ( Grand Jury Prize ), and the song became known internationally and shot into the charts. In Austria it reached number 13 in Switzerland, # 4 in Germany and Jeanette even had a number -one hit.

Porque te vas From 1977 there were two German, relatively unsuccessful versions of Sabrina and Nina Lizell under the title And you want to go. Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley sing an English version ( " You're Leaving Me " ) in the German thriller The Skipper (1990). 1999, the Group had Masterboy with a cover version again chart success in German-speaking countries. The Cologne-based band Erdmöbel played for her album No.1 Hits a new German version with the title 'Cause you 're leaving one.

Jeanette succeeded internationally thereafter no similar success more. As a singer, but she was up in the 1990s still in Spain and partly in France successfully.