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</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vanessa Chantal Paradis was born at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, near Paris. She became a child star at 14 with the huge worldwide success of her single "Joe le taxi."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since then, she has had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a career in music, movies and modeling.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzMTPKAJ1VwUSqvsFelTCL5awvt-K8POXYVA3txEf88_wSlJ0blJ3ixsG-3jl_dv-AUuC2RTs8yYq21khqJxgb5d84R5vLY9qOSl0J7UnKbKCXTfSyd5sFqNNThFC5NX3FvmopTEyMxcb/s1600/Vanessa+Paradis-young222703.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzMTPKAJ1VwUSqvsFelTCL5awvt-K8POXYVA3txEf88_wSlJ0blJ3ixsG-3jl_dv-AUuC2RTs8yYq21khqJxgb5d84R5vLY9qOSl0J7UnKbKCXTfSyd5sFqNNThFC5NX3FvmopTEyMxcb/s320/Vanessa+Paradis-young222703.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She recorded her first single, "La Magie des surprises-parties,"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 1983 and performed it in an Italian festival in 1985 but lost the first prize. While "La Magie des surprises-parties" was not a hit, it paved the way for the song with which she would become known internationally in 1987 "Joe le taxi."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The song was #1 in France for 11 weeks and, and released in the U.K the following year where it reached #3. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZo21jw5kzc51VSeyBjQ1S9uUyhZBa7ar3jmsla9YggfOjFmCKb3xpTNe8hHOWbF7MSH67wJL5lJPa_59QniCXgzTE7ebBU4bgNrLqZuUvoUy337g7Q_ur7s_GI3IPl3FWjIpDmbOdBPnr/s1600/Vanessa%252BParadis2-piano%252Baa02e02d7d7at.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZo21jw5kzc51VSeyBjQ1S9uUyhZBa7ar3jmsla9YggfOjFmCKb3xpTNe8hHOWbF7MSH67wJL5lJPa_59QniCXgzTE7ebBU4bgNrLqZuUvoUy337g7Q_ur7s_GI3IPl3FWjIpDmbOdBPnr/s320/Vanessa%252BParadis2-piano%252Baa02e02d7d7at.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1989, when she was 16, she decided to drop out of high school to pursue her varied career interests. She then released <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Variations sur le même t'aime</i> in 1990, containing a remake of the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The album was written by acclaimed French composer Serge Gainsbourg, whom she met when she received the best singer award at Les Victoires de la Musique, on February, 4th 1990. (Gainsbourg was well known for his earlier collaborations with <a href="http://today-is-their-birthday.blogspot.com/2010/09/sept-28-french-actress-and-singer.html"><span style="color: blue;">Brigit Bardot</span></a> and <a href="http://today-is-their-birthday.blogspot.com/2010/12/dec-14-british-actress-and-singer-jane.html"><span style="color: blue;">Jane Birkin</span></a>.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1990, Paradis won the 1990 César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in Noce Blanche.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMfo9xYy6celkirlqHO-oQ2xPrjWGoNDy95eevcz3EAjrajaeqlH6HYxEL2VyKEsE_PjCVBDdIggWRoN6XgD9XCaaot6DsLplnTkC5eP1qR2hP77HoSAog7jlnBMxJTkt7-8iowkr46xa/s1600/vanessa_paradis_performing_concert_troyes_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMfo9xYy6celkirlqHO-oQ2xPrjWGoNDy95eevcz3EAjrajaeqlH6HYxEL2VyKEsE_PjCVBDdIggWRoN6XgD9XCaaot6DsLplnTkC5eP1qR2hP77HoSAog7jlnBMxJTkt7-8iowkr46xa/s320/vanessa_paradis_performing_concert_troyes_5.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a name='more'></a><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1992, she moved to the U.S. to work with rock musician Lenny Kravitz. Paradis started working on a new album in English. Written and produced by Kravitz, the album, titled Vanessa Paradis, topped the French chart and briefly made the UK listings (number 45). One of the singles from it was "Be My Baby,"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which made number 5 in France and gave her another Top 10 UK hit.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Paradis released a new album (Divinidylle) in 2007 which has three versions (regular, limited edition, and the Christmas edition). She started the Divinidylle Tour in October. Some concerts were filmed and a DVD/CD of the tour was released. Vanessa won two Les Victoires de la Musique" awards for the album in February 2008. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircKTegBFu5r4wN-tkxR4xnwiFvsA6WcuOJ6SWpQVPtjGB6uoB0K-RDzUsDnmvAcY5nzR_3r4JHhcAy8efgO-epui4ixKcyoElqyNAYSNpVWNI8-ej7-NJVt7ogjondpySlog9kbuyX1KK/s1600/Vanessa%252BParadis%252Bguitarellenvonunwerth2_016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircKTegBFu5r4wN-tkxR4xnwiFvsA6WcuOJ6SWpQVPtjGB6uoB0K-RDzUsDnmvAcY5nzR_3r4JHhcAy8efgO-epui4ixKcyoElqyNAYSNpVWNI8-ej7-NJVt7ogjondpySlog9kbuyX1KK/s320/Vanessa%252BParadis%252Bguitarellenvonunwerth2_016.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of her later musical projects include a greatest hits CD, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best of Vanessa Paradis </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>is set to release an acoustic album entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Une nuit à Versailles</i>. The album was recorded at L'Opéra of the Palace of Versailles during her Vanessa Paradis Concert Acoustique Tour.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She is also releasing a set of DVDs called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anthologie</i> which collects rare live performances and interviews from 1987-2007. In 2011, Paradis is embarking on an international tour which includes performances in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Turkey. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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