Marie Laforet became famous as a talented film and theater actress. She starred in fifty films. For her role in the play about the life of Maria Callas received the prestigious Moliere Award. She is known as a beautiful singer, whose CDs have enjoyed continued success, and concerts have always been sold out.
Maiten Marie Brigitte Dumenac has an amazing voice. Her repertoire included rock, and folk, and pop songs. On the stage, the singer showed herself as a versatile talented artist of enormous talent.
Start of success
The biography of the future celebrity began in 1939. The girl was born on October 5 in the French town of Sulac de Mer in the family of an entrepreneur. The performer has a sister, Alexander. After the war, adults and children moved to another city. Father headed a factory manufacturing products for railways.
Later, the family moved to Paris. The girl studied at the Lyceum and played in theatrical circle productions. Marie dreamed of a nurse career. The girl decided to get a vocational education in special courses. However, while studying vocal abilities revealed. Once the girl heard the girl could not forget her singing.
Success came unexpectedly. Sister Marie received in 1959 in the contest "Birth of a Star." Due to illness, Alexandra could not speak and asked a relative to replace her. The victorious girl began attending acting classes. The young vocalist paid attention to the famous director Louis Mal.
He invited her to play in the film "Freedom." Laforet agreed with pleasure. The debut film remained incomplete due to the cessation of filming, but the next year the director with great success presented the public a leading role in the film “In the Bright Sun” with Alain Delon, who also made his debut in cinema.
Cinema and music
Many directors have now offered Marie new films. One of her most famous works was the role in the film "Girl with Golden Eyes" based on the work of Honore de Balzac. The name of the film has become the nickname of the star for a long time. Eighties Laforet fully devoted to creativity in the cinema. For her, the fame of the comedic actress was entrenched.
She starred with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the movie "Police Officer or Bandit", played in "Happy Easter!". The star played in the famous television series "Octopus". Her heroine in the third part of the film story was Anna Antinari. The last film work of the actress was the role of Martina in the film "Office of God" in 2008.
The full talent of the actress and singer revealed during the filming of the film "St. Tropez Blues." Marie brilliantly performed the title track. The song was released as a separate single. The disc sold a gigantic run. However, the singer’s debut hit is still called the song "Les vendages de l'amour". What the vocalist sang was strikingly different from the hits of her time.
The texts were distinguished by content. Marie liked the melody of exotic musical genres of South America and the tunes of Eastern Europe. Lafore devoted a lot of time to folk songs. The beginning of her work on the stage coincided with the release of Bob Dylan's early album.
The singer interpreted his composition "Blowing in the wind" in her own way. The disc was released in 1963. On the second side, another Dylan song "House of the rising sun" was recorded.
Stage
In the new mini-album of the vocalist, her version of the African American spiritual "Go tell it on the mountain" was heard. The American group Marie took the work "Coule doux". The girl was fond of the duet "Simon and Carthangel". From the collective repertoire in 1966 she performed their first hit "The sound of silence", as well as "Condor flew in."
Laforet also introduced fans to her own version of the Rolling Stones "Paint it black". A huge number of songs performed by the soloist belonged to the genre of pop music. Most of them were arranged by the French composer Andre Popp.
The hit “Manchester and Liverpool” was most famous. The song returned to the stage in the nineties. By the end of the sixties, Marie became one of the most famous vocalists of the country. She was interested in works that opened up both vocally and dramatically.
Since the management of the record company "CBS Records" found such singles too complicated, the singer lost interest in recording in the seventies.
In 1978, Laforet moved to Switzerland, where she opened an art gallery and became interested in journalism. In 1998, the singer released a new album, "Voyages au long cours". It was composed of 17 previously unexecuted compositions. Their vocalist recorded during her world tour. Singles are performed in several languages.
