Véronique Sanson

Véronique Sanson

Véronique Marie Line Sanson (born 24 April 1949) is a three-time Victoires de la Musique award-winning French singer-songwriter and record producer with an avid following in her native country. Ten years after Barbara, Véronique Sanson became one of the first French female singer-songwriters to break into stardom with her debut album Amoureuse in 1972. She also became one of the most successful and most prominent members of the Seventies "Nouvelle chanson française" ("New French chanson"), alongside Alain Souchon, Bernard Lavilliers, Jacques Higelin, Michel Polnareff, Catherine Lara, Yves Duteil, Maxime Le Forestier, Renaud, William Sheller, Michel Jonasz, Michel Berger, Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, Louis Chédid, or Francis Cabrel. Unlike most previous French artists of the Sixties Yé-yé era, who mostly released EPs consisting of a collection of singles, B-sides and covers, Sanson and her counterparts of the "nouvelle chanson française" established the dominance of singer-songwriters on the Seventies French charts thanks to albums with full-length artistic statements. One of her songs, "Amoureuse", was covered in English in 1973 by singer Kiki Dee, and became a major hit in the United Kingdom, and has been covered since by various other singers, from Polly Brown (1973) to Olivia Newton-John (1974), Pete Townshend (1974), Linda Martin (1996) and Amanda Abbs with Illusive (1997). In 1974, Patti Dahlstrom recorded a second version with her own lyrics, entitled "Emotion" which was covered by Helen Reddy (1974) and Shirley Bassey (1975). Many other covers of "Amoureuse" have been recorded in French, German, Spanish, Dutch or Japanese. Véronique Sanson plays piano and guitar. Both her parents, René and Colette Sanson, were members of the Resistance during the German occupation of France. Before the war, René Sanson was a French diplomat in The Hague. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands, he sent a coded message to warn the French government that Germany was planning to attack France from across the Belgian border. This very message was decoded by Colette, a communication worker at the French Ministry of War. It was not until a few months later that they met in person, in a resistance cell. Both became prominent within the Resistance. In 1944, after the bombing of a German train, Colette was arrested and sentenced to death by the occupation force before she managed to escape. After the liberation of Paris, René Sanson was appointed Minister of Labour in Charles de Gaulle's provisional government. The couple married in 1945. As a lawyer and an economist, René Sanson remained involved in politics as Member of Parliament and Deputy of the 13th district of Paris until 1967. In 1970, he was in charge of the French delegation at the Osaka World Expo; Véronique first visited Japan on this occasion. ... Source: Article "Véronique Sanson" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For: Acting

Born: Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France, 1949-04-24

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1989	Les Enfoirés 1989 - Tournée d'Enfoirés		60
2	1992	Le Bal des casse-pieds	Fanny, la pianiste	58
3	1995	Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique		60
4	1996	Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés		60
5	1997	Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés		60
6	1999	Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000		60
7	2005	Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés		80
8	2006	Véronique Sanson - Comme ils l'imaginent…	Self	0
9	2007	Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...	Self (archive footage)	60
10	2014	Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui		80
11	2016	Véronique Sanson - Les années américaines	Self	100
12	2018	Vianney en concert à l’AccorHotels Arena	Self	0
13	2019	Quincy Jones: A Musical Celebration in Paris	Self	87
14	2020	Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés		74
15	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72
16	2023	On s'était dit rendez-vous... avec Patrick Bruel	Self - Guest	80
17	2024	Véronique Sanson : Hasta Luego !	Self	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Discorama	Self	0
2	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
3	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
4	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
5	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
6	1975	Système 2	Self	0
7	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
8	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
9	1977	Fan School	Self	73
10	1979	Okay	Self	0
11	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
12	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
13	1987	Matin Bonheur	Self	0
14	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56
15	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
16	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
17	1987	Téléthon	Self	50
18	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
19	1990	Les Nuls, l'émission	Self - Musical Guest	83
20	1992	Coucou c'est nous !	Self	65
21	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
22	2001	Star Academy	Self	64
23	2004	La chanson de l'année	Self	90
24	2016	Quotidien	Self - Guest	62
25	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self (archive footage)	66

Véronique Sanson

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