Artist: Jane Birkin
Genre(s):
Folk
Rock: Folk-Rock
Pop
Latin
Discography:
Lolita Go Home
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Fictions
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Rendez-Vous
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Arabesque
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Jane B., Vol. 1
Year: 1995
Tracks: 20
The heavy-breathing vocalist on one of the near infamous chart-toppers in British history, Jane Birkin enjoyed a long film and recording career. Born in London in 1946, she followed in her mother's footsteps and began playing at the Kensington Academy in London. While still a adolescent, she made her degree debut in Graham Greene's 1964 production Carving a Statue. One year after, she was offered a function in Passion Flower Hotel, a musical produced by James Bond series composer John Barry, and she married him presently after. Birkin's first film, The Knack...And How to Get It, followed in 1965, spell a brief nude persona in 1966's controversial Blow one's stack made her semi-famous.
Her man and wife with Barry presently bust up, however, and a trip to France introduced her to Gallic pop asterisk Serge Gainsbourg. The iI finally matrimonial, and Birkin lent her talents to Gainsbourg's 1969 recording of the erotic pour down song "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus." Originally released by Fontana Records in Britain, the unmarried was presently dropped by the label; reissued on the Major Minor imprint, it hit number i in England late that year despite a radio receiver prohibition. The collaborative LP Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus presently followed, though Birkin exhausted much of the early '70s working in films. She appeared in often exploitation fare, including Sex Power, Romance of a Horse Thief, and Don Juan 73, the latter featuring her as the same-sex lover of Brigitte Bardot. With help from Gainsbourg, she recorded 1975's Lolita Go Home and 1978's Ex Fan diethylstilboestrol Sixties, gaining hits in France, if not in England.
Her marriage ceremony to Gainsbourg dissolved in 1980 (their daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, became a vocalizer herself, and made a spot of argument transcription the individual "Lemon Incest" with her father), and Birkin afterwards married French director Jacques Doillon. She continued playacting, acting, and qualification music, for the most part directed to a French hearing, until 2006 when she released Fictions. The album included both a Tom Waits and a Neil Young cover along with new material from songwriters Neil Hannon of Divine Comedy, the Magic Numbers, Beth Gibbons, and Rufus Wainwright.
