Janet Woollacott
Janet Edith Woollacott (Carlton, England 4 November 1939 – Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine 13 November 2011) was a British-born French singer of the 1960s to 2000s.
Biography
Woollacott was a dancer on the Côte d'Azur aged 20 when she met Cloclo, Claude François in 1959, they married the following year. Only weeks before François became a major star Woollacott left Cloclo for Gilbert Bécaud, with whom she had a daughter, Jennifer Bécaud. The split was the subject of Claude François' bitter song "Je sais" (1964). Woollacott later wrote a book detailing the time shared with François. François never remarried and died in 1978.
In later years she remarried three more times; to the producer Jean-Paul Barkoff, the Charlot comedian Jean Sarrus and the composer Dominique Perrier. From 1994, she collaborated with Stone Edge,[1] later renamed to Stone Age, the French/Breton Celtic techno band formed by her husband Dominique Perrier, with which she regularly performed and recorded songs, appearing on the band's best known album, "Time Travellers", as "Maureen" (1997).[2]
She died after a long illness on 13 November 2011 (aged 72), and was buried three days later in the Clamart cemetery.
Memoir
- Claude François, les années oubliées (1998)
Discography
- Je t’aime… normal et Super-gangsters, with Jean Sarrus (Vogue, 1970)
- Bénie soit la pluie (Sugar me) and "Le chocolat" (Motors/Discodis, 1972)
- "Mama" and "The Dream", soundtrack from the film Adieu blaireau (Ariola Records, 1985)
With Stone Edge
- Stone Edge (Sony Records, 1995)
With Stone Age
- Time Travellers (Sony Records, 1997)
- Promessa (2000)
- Totems d'Armorique (2007)