Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan (born Sylvie Georges Vartanian on 15 August 1944) is a Bulgarian-Armenian-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. 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Iskretz, Bulgaria, 1944-08-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge	La chanteuse yéyé	50
2	1963	Just for Fun	Self	37
3	1963	Where Are You From, Johnny?	Gigi	50
4	1964	Cherchez l'idole	Sylvie Vartan	62
5	1964	Friends of the family	Alexa Rollo	48
6	1967	The Ponies	Sylvie Vartan	42
7	1971	Malpertuis	Bets	65
8	1972	J'ai tout donné	Self	80
9	1972	Repeated Absences	Une femme à la soirée mondaine	45
10	1979	Carlos Numéro 1	Self	0
11	1982	Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas	Self	0
12	1984	Sunset People	Self	0
13	1993	Johnny Hallyday : Parc des Princes 93	Self	82
14	1994	The Black Angel	Stéphane Feuvrier	54
15	2001	Mausolée pour une garce	Agnès Taride	20
16	2008	Rare and Unseen: The Beatles	Self	60
17	2008	L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau	Self	0
18	2009	Johnny Hallyday : Tour 66 - Stade de France	Self	97
19	2013	It Happened in Saint-Tropez	Une people à Cannes soirée Melko	54
20	2014	Roger Kasparian, l'oeil des 60's	Self	80
21	2021	Michel Sardou une vie en chantant	Self	0
22	2021	Sylvie Vartan : le récital	Self	0
23	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72
24	2022	Sheila, toutes ces vies-là	Self (archive footage)	75
25	2023	L'Âge d'or de la pub	Self (archive footage)	65
26	2023	Unknown Beauty: François Nars	Self	0
27	2025	My Mom, God and Sylvie Vartan	Sylvie Vartan	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Discorama	Self	0
2	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Self	60
3	1967	Europarty	Self	0
4	1968	À bout portant	Self	80
5	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
6	1971	Baden-Badener Roulette	Self	0
7	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
8	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
9	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
10	1973	Klimbim	Self	65
11	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
12	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
13	1975	Système 2	Self	0
14	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
15	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
16	1975	Numéro un	Self (archive footage)	60
17	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
18	1977	Fan School	Self	73
19	1978	Bio’s Bahnhof	Self	0
20	1980	The Big Show	Self	0
21	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
22	1984	Die verflixte 7	Self	0
23	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
24	1986	Miss France	Self - Judge	60
25	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
26	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
27	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
28	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
29	2001	As An Aside	Self - Guest	65
30	2001	Star Academy	Self	64
31	2006	On n'est pas couché	Self - Guest	52
32	2009	C à vous	Self	60
33	2009	C à vous	Self - Guest	60
34	2016	Quotidien	Self - Guest	62
35	2018	The secret song	Self	80
36	2019	La Boîte à secrets	Self	0
37	2021	Archives secrètes	Self (archive footage)	0
38	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self (archive footage)	66

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