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1er ALBUM - SHEILA - 7 CHANSONS NOUVELLES

Face 1: Love - Fragile - J'adore - Votre enfant - Trinidad - Le carrosse

Face 2: Les rois mages - Une femme - Blancs, jeunes, rouges, noirs - Eine stunde - Vive la terre

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LE DISQUE D'OR DE SHEILA

Face 1: L'ecole est finie - Ecoute ce disque - Le folklore Américain (They gotta quit kickin' my dog) - C'est toi que j'aime - Le sifflet des copains

Face 2: Première surprise-partie - Tous les deux - Vous les copains, je ne vous oublierai j'amais (Do wah diddy) - Devant les juke-box (If i did not have a dime) - La chorale (Tell me what to do)

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SHEILA

Face 1: Pilote sur les ondes - L'amour au téléphone - Louis - Rocky angel - Peur du silence

Face 2: Les sommets blancs de Wolfgang - Psychodrame - Je ne suis qu'une fille - Ma haute fidêlité

Sheila is the stage name of a French pop singer whose real name is Annie Chancel (she is not related to Jacques Chancel, the TV host). She was born on August 16, 1945 in Créteil. “Sheila” was the title of her first release, which was a French cover version of the American hit by Tommy Roe.

Sheila started her musical career in 1962, after being noticed by Claude Carrère, a French music producer and songwriter. This collaboration would last actively for over 20 years. It ended definitely in 1995 with a highly publicized lawsuit.

Sheila had numerous and well-remembered hits in the 1960s and 1970s, playing the well-behaved young girl image. The first one was “L’école est finie” (School is over), in 1962.

In the Eight Women movie, Ludivine Sagnier sang her 1963 “Papa t’es plus dans l’coup” (Daddy, you are not in on it anymore) hit. Sheila’s music also features prominently in the 1996 French film Une robe d’été (A Summer Dress). The character Sébastien is a devoted fan of Sheila, and Sheila’s version of the Sonny & Cher classic, “Bang Bang,” is featured on the soundtrack.

In 1977 she came back as Sheila and B. Devotion (in some countries records were released under the name “Sheila B. Devotion”; in others, under the name “Sheila and Black Devotion”) and changed her style to disco. She also started singing in English. She again enjoyed considerable success, with hits like “Spacer” (produced by Chic), which was later sampled for the song “Crying at the Discothèque” by Swedish pop group Alcazar, “Love Me Baby” and a “Singin’ in the Rain” cover.

She ended the collaboration with Carrère at the beginning of the 1980s, and since that time has had problems with keeping her musical career afloat. Her 1985 show at the Zénith, a large concert hall in northern Paris, was considered a failure. Although she is still very popular, having met huge success in concerts held in 1998 and 2002 at the Olympia, she has difficulties releasing commercially viable albums.

SHEILA (ARTIST BIOGRAPHY)

Anny Chancel (later known as Sheila) was born on August 16, 1946 in Paris, France. She became a pop/rock star in France in the 1960s, but her early songs have been denounced as childish, vapid, fluffy bubblegum music. Although she sang with B. Devotion (three African-American singers) in some earlier disco songs in the late 1970s, her crowning achievement is regarded as her song “Spacer”. This late-1979 song, as well as the other 7 songs on her 1980 album “King of the World”, were produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of the Chic Organisation. “Spacer” was popular in Europe (including in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) and South Africa, selling 5 million copies worldwide, but was not a big success in the United States.

The back of the cover to the original “Spacer” single record (which also included “Don’t Go”) shows Sheila and the Black Devotion on rollerskates and in concert.

Sheila turned her attention to pop music in the 1980s. A remix of Sheila’s “Spacer” came out in 1998.