Biography
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Born
7 February 1927
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Born In
Montpellier, Hérault, Occitanie, France
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Died
23 September 2020 (aged 93)
French chanteuse Juliette Gréco (b.1927) was one of the stars of the bohemian "in" crowd of post-war France. Born to a Corsican father in Montpellier and a mother active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. Involved also she was caught but not deported for her young age. She was raised by her maternal grandparents. She moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris in 1946 after her mother left the country for Indochina with the French Navy.
A famous description of Juliette Gréco is that her voice "encompasses millions of poems". She was the muse of many of the writers and artists working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Vian. Some of these artists would write songs for her to sing. She fell in love with and almost married Miles Davis when he visited Paris in 1949.
Juliette Gréco died in September 2020.
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