Charlotte Gainsbourg

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23.02.2010 20:23
Vampire Weekend and The Strokes to be featured on Haiti helping album
Vampire Weekend, Beck and The Strokes contributed their songs for the new Haiti benefit album. The record also includes covers on Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out and Hot Chip's Boy From School.

Biography

Charlotte Gainsbourg (full name Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg) was born on July 21, 1971 in London in the family of French actor and singer Serge Gainsbourg and English actress and singer Jane Birkin. Being a child of parents with versatile talents and varied attainments, from early childhood Charlotte began to reveal her creative abilities. She sang her first song Lemon Incest with her father when she was only 13, and two years later her debut album Charlotte Forever was released, written and produced by Serge Gainsbourg. In France the disc was accepted quite warmly and that allowed to talk of a possible successful career as a singer in the future. But Charlotte got more infatuated by cinema and soon she played a role of Catherine Deneuve’s daughter in Paroles Et Musique. Soon after that her career as an actress started to grow rapidly and today her filmography includes dozens of movies. Having been filmed in several pictures, in 1996 she returned to sound studio for a while to record the main title for one of her films, Love etc. Charlotte’s voice can also be heard in the introduction to Madonna’s song What It Feels Like For A Girl, as well as on Badly Drawn Boy’s album Have You Fed the Fish?? as backing vocals.

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