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person_profile-Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan Age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Sylvie Vartan

Date of Birth:

Aug 15, 1944

Country of birth:

Bulgaria

Biography of

Sylvie Vartan

    Sylvie Vartan (born Sylvie Georges Vartanian; 15 August 1944) is a Armenian-Bulgarian-French singer and actress. She is known as one of the most productive and tough-sounding yé-yé artists. Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV. With 50 million records and CD's sold worldwide, 2000 magazine covers (number one French female artist before Bardot and Deneuve) and being the number one French female singer with concerts and audience worldwide, Sylvie Vartan is considered a true Legend and icon.

    Yearly shows with then-husband Johnny Hallyday attracted full houses at the Olympia and the Palais des congrès de Paris throughout the 1960s and mid-1970s. In 2004, after a break in performances, she began recording and giving concerts of jazz ballads in francophone countries.

    Sylvie Vartan was born in Iskrets, Sofia Province, in the then Kingdom of Bulgaria. Her father, Georges Vartanian (1912—1970), was born in France to a Bulgarian mother named Slavka and an Armenian father. He worked as an attaché at the French embassy in Sofia. The family shortened the name Vartanian to Vartan. Her mother, Ilona (née Mayer 1914–2007), daughter of prominent architect Rudolf Mayer, was of Hungarian-Jewish descent.

    When the Soviet Army invaded Bulgaria in September 1944, the Vartanian family house was nationalised and they moved to Sofia. In 1952, a friend of Sylvie's father, film director Dako Dakovski, offered her the role of a schoolgirl in the movie Pod igoto, a film about Bulgarian rebels against the Ottoman occupation. Participating in the film made her dream of becoming an entertainer come true.

    The hardships of postwar Bulgaria made the family emigrate to Paris in December 1952. At first they stayed in the Lion d'Argent hotel near Les Halles, where Georges found a job, then for the next four years they stayed in a single room at the Angleterre Hotel. Young Sylvie had to work hard to keep up at school and blend in with her schoolmates. She spent two years learning French.

    In 1960, her family moved to an apartment in Michel Bizot Avenue. Thanks to the influence of her music producer brother Eddie, music became teenage Sylvie's main interest. Her most influential genres were jazz and, out of spite toward her strict high school, rock 'n' roll. Her favourite artists included Brenda Lee, Bill Haley, and Elvis Presley.

    In 1961, Eddie offered Sylvie the chance to record the song "Panne d'essence" with French rocker Frankie Jordan. The Decca Records EP was a surprise hit. Although she was not credited on the sleeve, "Panne d'essence" provided Vartan her first appearance on French television. The journalists gave her the nickname la collégienne du twist. After the "twisting schoolgirl" had finished the Victor Hugo High School, she was free to sign a contract with Decca Records to start recording her own EP; carrying the title song "Quand le film est triste", a cover of Sue Thompson's "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)", the EP was on sale by the beginning of December 1961. ...

    Source: Article "Sylvie Vartan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Sylvie Vartan

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Filmography of

Sylvie Vartan

Found 18 Movies in total

... 2023

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

Une people à Cannes soirée Melko ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2011

... 2008

Mausolée pour une garce

Agnès Taride ( Actor )

... 2001

The Black Angel

Stéphane Feuvrier ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1984

Repeated Absences

Une femme à la soirée mondaine ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1972

Malpertuis

Bets ( Actor )

... 1971

The Ponies

Sylvie Vartan ( Actor )

... 1967

Friends of the family

Alexa Rollo ( Actor )

... 1964

Cherchez l'idole

Sylvie Vartan ( Actor )

... 1964

... 1963

Just for Fun

Self ( Actor )

... 1963

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

La chanteuse yéyé ( Actor )

... 1962