Véronique Sanson
Véronique Sanson ( born April 24, 1949 in Boulogne- Billancourt ) is a French chansonniere and songwriter.
In 1972, she published her first, by Michel Berger - who remained a close confidante until his death in 1992 - produced album Amoureuse, which was considered in France twice with gold. The value written by its title song became a worldwide hit much gecoverter. Among the artists include Kiki Dee who gave the song successful in England, and Helen Reddy, who published it as an emotion. Other important titles of this album were Bahia, Besoin de Personne and Mariavah.
From 1973 to 1979 she was with Stephen Stills, an American singer and guitar player of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, married, with whom she has a son born in 1974 Chris Stills, who is also a singer / songwriter. At that time she lived primarily in the U.S., and their 1976 album Vancouver there rehearsed - with the same title song - gave her worldwide attention, also in Germany. This album also included a few English-language titles.
In the early 1980s, she returned to France, where in 1985 their self-titled album occupied the 15th place in the charts. In 1992, the album Sans regrets, sixth, and 1998 and 1999 and Indestructible D'un papillon à une étoile each reached the second place. 2004 Longue Distance their only number one album, after it reached a third place in 2010 with Plusieurs Lunes.
1993 and 1996 she was awarded the major, distributed since 1985 Victoires de la Musique award for the best female artist - she became the first person who received this award twice. 2013, it was with Sheila and Enrico Macias for her life's work with the honorary award of the Victoires de la Musique - Victoires d' Honneur - considered.
In 1995 she married the French comedian, actor and writer Pierre Palmade; the marriage was divorced in 2004.