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Simone Langlois
(CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)
5 Villa Dancourt, 75018 Paris, France

Simone Langlois was a French author and singer born in Paris in 1932. From the age of four she sang with her mother on the streets and in cafes. Simone Langlois was the first performer to sing Jacques Brel’s Ne me quitte pas after meeting the young singer in 1957.

“One evening, in a restaurant in the rue du Faubourg-Montmartre, Simone Langlois was singing to help her parents who were ruined by illness. She was twelve years old, with sad eyes, a resonant and serious voice of a grown-up who has already struggled a lot.
Thanks to Jean Nohain, who hired her for his public radio broadcasts, and his tours in France and abroad, the young singer became famous. It was a rare curiosity, these accents, this powerful tone in a child’s chest. The public grew weary as quickly as it grew enthusiastic, like any prodigy… A year later, Simone was forgotten.
She did not lose courage, and continued to work to regain esteem, friendship, and success on a basis surer than astonishment. And she added to her gifts a real talent, she forgot the deceptive facilities of luck to prepare herself with patience, perseverance, lucidity. Also, in 1958, a Grand Prix du Disque came to crown the short story of Simone, rediscovered at the age of twenty-two.
Do you know her latest songs: So, There is music, It’s my song, all served by total sincerity. Because such is Simone Langlois, who passionately loves a job that she did not choose, but that the hard life of her childhood imposed on her. Apart from her songs, Simone, sentimental, idealistic, dreamy, discreet, is faithful to friendship, to old legends, to folk dolls and to her dear city of Paris.”
Lisette No.20 20th May 1962