2023-07-16 13:41:26
British singer and actress Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76 in Paris after developing practically all of her artistic career in France, although she had been away from the scene for some time due to health problems.
The BFMTV channel, citing sources from the artist’s environment, indicated this Sunday that They found her dead at her home in Paris..
She had been retired from the stage for some time, although she had returned to work punctually after suffering a stroke in 2021 that affected her.
Last March his entourage had announced the cancellation for two months of his concerts, but then new cancellations arrived at the end of May.
Born in London on December 14, 1946, Jane Birkin was the daughter of a military man and a famous English actress, Judy Campbell, with whom she was in direct contact with cinema since childhood.
His first roles were in two films awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, ‘Le Knakck‘ by Richard Lester in 1965 and, above all, ‘Blow-Up’ by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1967.
with that experiencein 1968 he decided to settle in France, where she met the singer Serge Gainsbourg with whom she lived a love story that resulted in some titles that caused a sensation and the occasional scandal, in particular with a duet that has left its mark on the history of French song, “Je t’ aim moi non plus” in 1979.
At the same time, she continued her acting career, first with rather comical roles such asn ‘The mustard is getting to my nose’ o ‘The shallot race’.
Although the Birkin-Gainsbourg couple broke up in 1980, the composer and singer wrote one of his most prestigious albums for her three years later, ‘Baby alone in babylone’, for which she was rewarded with a gold record, something that returned to achieve with ‘Arabesque’ in 2002.
Her health problems forced her to temporarily interrupt her career in 2012 due to acute pericarditis that forced her to rest. In December of the following year she lost her eldest daughter, Kate.
In 2017, it was she herself who told that she had been treating herself for leukemia.
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