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Janet Edith Woollacott (November 4, 1939 in Carlton, England – November 13, 2011 in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine) was a British-born French singer of the 1960s to 2000s.

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Biography

Woollacott was a dancer on the Côte d'Azur aged 20 when she met Claude François, Cloclo, in 1959, whom she married the following year. Only weeks before Claude François became a major star Woollacott left Claude François 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. Claude François never remarried and died in 1978.

In later years she remarried three more times; to the producer Jean-Paul Barkoff, the Les Charlots comedian and singer 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(2011-11-13) (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 (Lynsey de Paul song)) 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)

References

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