Barbara

Chante Jacques Brel,.. Barbara

A tall person, dressed in black as she sang melancholic songs of lost love. Barbara was a French singer known as "The Lady in

Black" who started her career in the early fifties singing at "La Fontaine des Quatre Saisons," a popular cabaret in Paris. In the

mid-fifties, she met Jacques Brel and became a lifelong friend, singing many of his songs. Later she met Georges Brassens,

whose songs she began to use in her act and to record on her first album. Her artistic sensibility and vocal technique led the

art of French Chanson to its peak and she became the equal of Edith Piaf.