British actress and singer Jane Birkin has died at home Parisas reported by the newspaper le parisien and BFM television in close sources, information collected by Reuters.
Actress in films such as ‘Death on the Nile’ or ‘Death under the sun’, Birkin, from 76 years old, became known abroad for her 1969 hit in which she and her late husband, the French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg they sang the sexually explicit theme song “Je t’aime… moi non plus” which included gasping while making love.
“I didn’t sing it because it was pretty,” but because I didn’t want Serge Gainsbourg, with whom I was very much in love at the time, to be in a locked studio with a beautiful actress, he explained at a press conference in Barcelona in 2018on the occasion of his participation in Primavera Sound.
The song had a huge controversy, which led it to be banned by the BBC and the Church, as well as in a paris restaurantwhere when putting it all the diners they stopped eating. At a concert in France, Birkin was asked not to perform it, even in an instrumental version. “There are still people who feel uncomfortable with the song,” the singer said five years ago, almost forty years after a success that toured the entire world.
The British had been away from the scenariosalthough he had returned to work promptly after suffering a stroke in 2021, according to EFE. Last March his entourage had announced the cancellation for two months of his concerts, but then at the end of May they arrived new cancellations.
Born in London On December 14, 1946, Jane Birkin was the daughter of a military man and a famous English actress, Judy Campbell, with which he was in direct contact with the cinema since childhood. His first roles were in two award-winning films at the cannes film festival“Le Knack” by Richard Lester in 1965 and, above all, “Blow-Up” by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1967.
In 1968 he decided to settle in Francewhere he met the singer Serge Gainsbourg with whom one lived love story which resulted in some titles that caused a sensation, such as the aforementioned “Je t’aime… moi non plus”. In parallel she continued her acting career, first with rather comedic roles as in “La moutarde me monte au nez” or “La course à l’échalote”.
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Although the Birkin–Gainsbourg pair broke up in 1980, the songwriter and singer wrote one of his most prestigious albums for her three years later, “Baby alone in babylon“, for which she was rewarded with a gold record, something she did again with “Arabesque” in 2002.
Her health problems forced her to temporarily interrupt her career in 2012 due to acute pericarditis that forced her to rest. In December of the following year, she lost her eldest daughter, Kate, from her first marriage to composer John Barry. Birkin had two other daughters, the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourgwith Serge Gainsbourg, and the actress Lou Doillonof his relationship with film director French Jacques Doillon between 1980 and 1992.