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Vanessa Paradis

Child starlet who became a French icon, Vanessa Paradis was raised in the suburbs of Paris. She first came to attention as an eight-year-old contestant on TV talent show 'L'ecole des Fans' and released her first single 'La Magie Des Surprise-Parties' two years later. Her big breakthrough came in 1987 with the huge hit 'Joe Le Taxi' which spent eleven weeks at number one in France and reached number three in the UK, followed by album 'M&J' (1988). She worked with Serge Gainsbourg on 'Variations Sur Le T'aime' (1990) which included a cover of Lou Reed's 'Walk On the Wild Side' b...