Profile
Barbara
Singer + Songwriter + Actress
Female
Born
Jun 9, 1930
Died
Nov 24, 1997
Genres
French pop + Chanson
Instruments
Piano
Record Label
Universal Music G...
Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara (Barbara Brodi in her debut), was a popular French female singer. She took her stage name from her Russian grandmother, Varvara Brodsky. She called herself 'the black eagle'-her song L'Aigle noir sold a million copies… Read More
Romance
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Jeffrey StoneMarried 1946 - 1949
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Barbara.
CHILDHOOD
1930
Birth
Born on June 9, 1930.
TWENTIES
1950
20 Years Old
A tall person, Serf dressed in black, accentuating her raven hair, as she sang melancholy songs of lost love. From 1950 to 1952, after running away following her father's desertion of her family, she lived in Brussels, Belgium where she became part of an active artistic community.
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1953
23 Years Old
In October 1953 she married Claude John Luc Sluys, a Belgian law student, but they separated in 1956.
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1957
27 Years Old
In 1957 she went back to Brussels to make her first record single but it was not until 1961 that she got a real break when she was engaged to perform at the famous Bobino Music-Hall in Montparnasse.
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THIRTIES
From that point on, her career blossomed and she signed a major recording contract in 1964 with Philips Records.
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1965
35 Years Old
In 1965, she released the album "Barbara chante Barbara" that became an enormous critical and financial success, winning the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy.
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1969
39 Years Old
In 1969, she announced that she would limit her concert singing, and in 1970 she made her acting début in the stage play Madame that proved to be a commercial flop.
FORTIES
1971
41 Years Old
In 1971 she co-starred with Jacques Brel in a film he directed titled Franz for which she wrote the theme song, "Moi, je me balance".
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1977
47 Years Old
Her final film role came in 1977 in Je suis né à Venise directed by the dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart.
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FIFTIES
1981
51 Years Old
Through the 1980s, she continued to tour and to write songs, her album "Seule" was one of France's top grossing releases of 1981.
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1986
56 Years Old
In 1986 she went to New York City to perform on piano at the Metropolitan Opera with Mikhail Baryshnikov in a song and dance ballet presentation.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
However, she recorded another very successful album in 1996—this sold over a million copies in just twelve hours—before respiratory problems took her life in Neuilly-sur-Seine (a suburb of Paris), on November 24, 1997.
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1997
68 Years Old
Died on November 24, 1997.
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