Key facts
- Born
- ( 1948-10-10 ) 10 October 1948 (age 77) , Paris , France
- Instrument
- singing
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 6th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 1971
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Philips Records
- Official website
- www.severine-online.com/index.htm
- Image
- Séverine - Un Banc... Une Arbre... Une Rue..., 1971 (cropped).jpg
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- name in native language
- Séverine
- date of birth
- 1948-10-10
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- Commons category
- Séverine (singer)
- birth name
- Josiane Danielle Grizeau
- number of viewers/listeners
- 519954
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Séverine (born Josiane Grizeau on 10 October 1948) is a French singer.
Séverine won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971 for Monaco, performing "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" (A bench, a tree, a street), with music by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and words by Yves Dessca. It was recorded in English as "Chance in Time", in German as "Mach die Augen zu (und wünsch dir einen Traum)" and Italian as "Il posto". The original French version made #9 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1971, whereas the English version, released on CBS rather than Philips, did not chart. The song charted highly in most other European markets. Séverine had further success in France and Germany, but never again on an international scale.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Séverine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.