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Patricia Kaas

Biography: Patricia Kaas (born 5 December 1966) is a French singer. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson. Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album Mademoiselle chante..., Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide. She had her greatest success in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, and South Korea with her third album Je te dis vous. In 2002, Kaas made her film debut in And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen with Jeremy Irons. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow and finished in eighth place. Patricia Kaas, the youngest of her family, was born on 5 December 1966 in Forbach, Lorraine, France, near the German border. Her father, Joseph Kaas, a miner, was a French Germanophone (Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by France in 1918) and her mother, Irmgard, was a German from Saar. Kaas grew up in Stiring-Wendel, between Forbach and Saarbrücken on the French side of the border. Until the age of six, she spoke only Lorraine Franconian. Her mother encouraged Kaas, then a young girl, to become a singer. At the age of only eight Kaas was already singing songs by Sylvie Vartan, Dalida, Claude François and Mireille Mathieu, as well as English-language songs such as "New York, New York", at various small events such as the marriage of her brother. Her first real success came when she received first place at a pop song contest. Kaas took her first step into the professional music business at the age of 13, when, with the help of her brother Egon, she signed a contract with the Saarbrücken club Rumpelkammer. Kaas took the name Pady Pax — after Pax Majorettes, a brass band from Stiring-Wendel, of which she and her sister Carine were members — and for seven years appeared with the band, Dob's Lady Killers. At 16, she took a placement with a model agency in Metz. Her first attempts to break into the music business failed; a producer rejected her on the ground that the world did not need a second Mireille Mathieu. Kaas's producer at this time was the architect Bernard Schwartz. In 1985, at 19 years old, Kaas was sponsored by French actor Gérard Depardieu. Schwartz had seen her singing at the Rumpelkammer in Saarbrücken and introduced her to the songwriter François Bernheim. Bernheim worked with her and convinced Depardieu to produce her music. Depardieu produced Kaas's first single Jalouse (Eng: Jealous), written by Bernheim and Depardieu's wife, Elisabeth. The single was published by EMI, but was a flop. Nonetheless, her encounter with Depardieu was one of the most important events at the beginning of Kaas's artistic career. Through Jalouse and Bernheim, the French songwriter Didier Barbelivien became aware of Kaas. His song Mademoiselle chante le blues (Eng: Lady sings the blues) was the singer's first big hit. The single was published in 1987 by Polydor, and reached 7th place in the French singles chart. The next year, Kaas's second single D'Allemagne (Eng: From Germany) was recorded, written by Barbelivien and Bernheim. ... Source: Article "Patricia Kaas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Birthday: December 05, 1966

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Les Enfants de la Pop 80's

2012-10-22

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Genres: Music Documentary

Original Language: fr

Release Date: 2012-10-22

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Patricia Kaas

Known For

Les Enfants de la Pop 80's

Johnny Hallyday : Olympia 2000 - Les Duos

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

Johnny Hallyday - Un soir à l'Olympia

Patricia Kaas: 3sat Festival 2017

Patricia Kaas - Kabaret Tour

Patricia Kaas - Toute la Musique

Patricia Kaas: Rendez-vous

Patricia Kaas - Live at Baloise Session 2013

Patricia Kaas: Ce Sera Nous

Murdered

Les 20 chansons de Jean-Jacques Goldman préférées des Français

La folie des années 90

Patricia Kaas - Tour De Charme

Piaf, Hymnes à la Môme au Beacon Theatre, New York

Patricia Kaas - Carnets de scène

Patricia Kaas: Kaas chante Piaf à l'Olympia

Christmas In Vienna VI

Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur

Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique

Pavarotti & Friends

Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania

Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra

Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000

Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000

Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs

Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés