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Nicole Croisille

French singer, actress and dancer Nicole Crosille was born on October 9, 1936 in Neuilly (Hauts-de-Seine). After studying typing, she took ballet classes at the Comédie-Française and appeared in the musical L'Apprenti fakir with Jean Marais in the late 1950s. At the beginning of the following decade, she made a name for herself as a cabaret singer, from Saint-Germain-des-Prés to New York, where she became the Folies-Bergère revue leader, and recorded her first albums, including Ray Charles covers. A fan of jazz, soul and bossa nova, she met Pierre Barouh, who asked her to sing a ...