Serge Gainsbourg

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Born: April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991
From: Paris, France

Biography

Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorise, although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians. Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, which have been covered more than 1,000 times by diverse artists. His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre, provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones. Since his death from a second heart attack in 1991, Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France. While controversial in his lifetime, he has become one of France's best-loved public figures. He has also gained a cult following across the world with chart success in the United Kingdom and Belgium with "Je t'aime... moi non plus" and "Bonnie and Clyde", respectively. Serge Gainsbourg was born in Paris on 2 April 1928, in the maternity ward of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris on the Île de la Cité. He was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Joseph and Olga Ginsburg. Born Brucha Goda Besman (nicknamed Olia/Olga) in Feodosiya in 1894, Serge's mother was a mezzo-soprano singer. Serge's father Joseph was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire of Ukrainian Jewish heritage in 1896. Originally interested in painting, he entered the Petrograd Conservatory and then the Moscow Conservatory to study music, becoming a classically trained pianist. He came to Crimea, where he met and married Olga in 1918. The couple fled Odessa for Paris via Georgia and then Istanbul in the years following the Russian Revolution. The couple arrived in Marseille in 1921, settling in Paris near Olga's brother, who worked for the Louis Dreyfus Bank. Joseph became a piano performer at bars, casinos, and cabarets, while Olga sang at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff. Serge and his twin sister Liliane had an elder brother Marcel, born in 1922, who died at sixteen months of pneumonia. They also had an older sister Jacqueline, born in 1926. The family lived in the working-class districts of Paris, first at 35 Rue de la Chine in the 20th arrondissement, and then at 11 Rue Chaptal in the 9th arrondissement. They obtained French nationality in 1932. Joseph taught Serge and Liliane to play the piano. At age 12, Serge enrolled at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Gainsbourg's childhood was profoundly affected by the occupation of France by Germany during World War II. The identifying yellow star that Jews were required to wear haunted Gainsbourg; in later years he was able to transmute this memory into creative inspiration. Early in the summer of 1941, the family temporarily sought refuge in the commune of Courgenard in the Sarthe department, at a place called "La Bassetière," with Baptiste and Irma Dumur. ... Source: Article "Serge Gainsbourg" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

75 films

Pasha

19686.7

Cannabis

19704.4

Charlotte for Ever

19865.1

Bardot

20258.3

Erotissimo

19695.7

Sweet Skin

19635.6

Slogan

19695.7

The Beaches of Agnès

20087.7

Teuf-teuf

19639.0

The Unknown Man of Shandigor

19675.9

Jane Birkin - Alcaline le Concert

20179.0

Reporters

19817.0

Serious as Pleasure

19753.9

I Love You All

19806.0

Oh Les Filles!

20197.4

Melody

19717.0

Love in the Night

19686.0

Bardot, The Misunderstanding

20137.7

Mr. Freedom

19695.2

Jane by Charlotte

20227.0

Katmandu

19694.9

Jane B. by Agnès V.

19886.8

L'Âge d'or de la pub

20236.5

Jane Birkin: Simply an Icon

20198.0

Come Dance with Me!

19596.1

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment

19805.5

The Gardener of Argenteuil

19666.4

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France

2009

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

20227.2

Public Speaking

20117.0

The Rage of War

19713.8

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye

19735.5

Les Enfants de la Pop 80's

2012

The Big Pardon

19826.2

Whitney: Can I Be Me

20176.5

Brigitte Bardot : Divine B.B.

20045.5

Romance of a Horsethief

19714.0

Deneuve, la reine Catherine

20227.8

The truth about Brigitte Bardot

2014

Droit de Réponse

19818.3

Bardot Amoureuse

20179.5

L'affaire Matzneff

2020

Gainsbourg and His Girls

20104.1

Souvenirs of Serge

2011

Brigitte Bardot confidentiel

2022

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

20197.0

The Discreet Françoise Hardy

20168.5

The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

19686.7

Gainsbourg, toute une vie

20219.0

Samson

19615.7

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

20107.2

Anna

19685.7

Serge Gainsbourg ‎– D'autres nouvelles des étoiles

20058.7

Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes

2003

Gainsbourg, art(s) et essai(s)

2018

Stan the Flasher

19905.3

Seduction Squad

19723.5

Spécial Bardot

19688.5

The Fury of Hercules

19624.5

All Mad About Him

19678.0

L'inconnue de Hong Kong

19634.5

Four Queens for an Ace

19665.5

Christmas at Vaugirard

1966

The Revolt of the Slaves

19605.8

Anna Karina, Remember

20205.0

Le Zenith de Gainsbourg

19897.7

Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self Portrait

20125.0

The Looters

19676.4

The World of Gaston Rébuffat

200910.0

Serge Gainsbourg, les meilleures chansons

20218.0

Paris Does Not Exist

19695.4

Gainsbourg... Casino de Paris 1986

19867.6

De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre 1958-1991

20009.5

La Story de Serge Gainsbourg : Le Punchliner

20216.0

Serge Gainsbourg, entre les murs

2018