Janet Woollacott


Janet Edith Woollacott 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 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". 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 :fr:Jean Sarrus |Jean Sarrus and the composer Dominique Perrier. From 1994, she collaborated with Stone Edge, 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".
She died after a long illness on, and was buried three days later in the Clamart cemetery.

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