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Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Gribouille
- Marie-France Gaîté (born 17 July 1941 in Lyon, France – died 18 January 1968), better known as Gribouille was a singer, musician, and song writer.As a teenager, she suffered from a mental disorder, and for a time was confined against her will to a psychiatric hospital in Lyon.
- With medication, she was able to function well enough to leave her hometown and she made her way to Paris.
- Gribouille, as she was called since her school days, is French for naive and foolishly happy people.
- Likely to throw themselves into a river to keep from getting wet in the rain. In Paris she met Jean Cocteau while she was drawing art on the sidewalk with chalk.
- He drew a portrait of her and added "To my friend Gribouille." She carefully added an 'e' to ami (feminine gender for friend is amie), embarrassed that Cocteau thought she was a boy.
- She had a very androgynous appearance, and a deep voice, and Cocteau got her work singing in a cabaret.
- Since she was at the bottom, even these sleazy cabaret acts were a step up for her.
- In 1963, through sheer talent and her intense persona, she joined the roster of Pathé Records.
- She was hailed (as many were) as the new Édith Piaf, and also compared with Barbara.
- Charles Dumont, who wrote many of Piaf's hits, also began writing songs for her.
- Composer Michel Breuzard also wrote music for her, and in 1966 she recorded several EP's and her first album.
- She appeared many times on television to sing her songs. She died in Paris, France, at the age of 26 from an excess of alcohol and drugs.
- She joined many famous and historical figures buried in the Jewish Cimetière de Bagneux in Montrouge, southwest of Paris.
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