Sylvie Vartan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 15, 1944 (age 82)
- Birthplace
- Iskretz, Bulgaria
Biography
Sylvie Vartan (born Sylvie Georges Vartanian on 15 August 1944) is a Bulgarian-Armenian-French singer and actress. She is known as one of the most productive and tough-sounding yé-yé artists. Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography,[and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV. Yearly shows with then-husband Johnny Hallyday attracted full houses at the Olympia and the Palais des congrès de Paris throughout the 1960s and mid-1970s. In 2004, after a break in performances, she began recording and giving concerts of jazz ballads in francophone countries. Sylvie Vartan was born in Iskrets, Sofia Province, in the then Kingdom of Bulgaria. Her father, Georges Vartanian (1912–1970), was born in France to a Bulgarian mother named Slavka and an Armenian father. He worked as an attaché at the French embassy in Sofia. The family shortened the name Vartanian to Vartan. Her mother, Ilona (née Mayer 1914–2007), daughter of prominent architect Rudolf Mayer, was of Hungarian-Jewish descent. When the Soviet Army invaded Bulgaria in September 1944, the Vartanian family house was nationalised and they moved to Sofia. In 1952, a friend of Sylvie's father, film director Dako Dakovski, offered her the role of a schoolgirl in the movie Pod igoto, a film about Bulgarian rebels against the Ottoman occupation. Participating in the film made her dream of becoming an entertainer come true. The hardships of postwar Bulgaria made the family emigrate to Paris in December 1952. At first they stayed in the Lion d'Argent hotel near Les Halles, where Georges found a job, then for the next four years they stayed in a single room at the Angleterre Hotel. Young Sylvie had to work hard to keep up at school and blend in with her schoolmates. She spent two years learning French. In 1960, her family moved to an apartment in Michel Bizot Avenue. Thanks to the influence of her music producer brother Eddie, music became teenage Sylvie's main interest. Her most influential genres were jazz and, out of spite toward her strict high school, rock 'n' roll. Her favourite artists included Brenda Lee, Bill Haley, and Elvis Presley. In 1961, Eddie offered Sylvie the chance to record the song "Panne d'essence" with French rocker Frankie Jordan. The Decca Records EP was a surprise hit. Although she was not credited on the sleeve, "Panne d'essence" provided Vartan her first appearance on French television. The journalists gave her the nickname la collégienne du twist. After the "twisting schoolgirl" had finished the Victor Hugo High School, she was free to sign a contract with Decca Records to start recording her own EP; carrying the title song "Quand le film est triste", a cover of Sue Thompson's "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)", the EP was on sale by the beginning of December 1961. ... Source: Article "Sylvie Vartan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
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Filmography
Once Upon My Mother
Movie · as Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan - Je tire ma révérence
Movie · as Self
Sylvie Vartan, vous et moi
Movie · as Self
Hallyday par David
Movie · as Self
25 ans de Laurent Gerra à la radio
Movie · as Self : Guest
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Unknown Beauty: François Nars
Movie · as Self
David Hallyday
Movie · as Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney - Eine Beatles-Legende
Movie · as Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Sylvie Vartan : le récital
Movie · as Self
Michel Sardou une vie en chantant
Movie · as Self
Archives secrètes
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
La Boîte à secrets
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Secret Song
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Quotidien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Sylvie raconte Vartan
Movie · as Self
Roger Kasparian, l'oeil des 60's
Movie · as Self
It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Movie · as Une people à Cannes soirée Melko
Johnny Hallyday : Tour 66 - Stade de France
Movie · as Self
C à vous
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 1 ep
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
Movie · as Self
L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau
Movie · as Self
On n'est pas couché
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Mausolée pour une garce
Movie · as Agnès Taride
Star Academy
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Apartment
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Sylvie Vartan Casino de Paris 95
Movie
The Black Angel
Movie · as Stéphane Feuvrier
Johnny Hallyday : Parc des Princes 93
Movie · as Self
Stars 90
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Le monde est à vous
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Miss France
TV · as Self - Judge · 1 ep
Victoires de la musique
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sunset People
Movie · as Self
Die verflixte 7
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas
Movie · as Self
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 13 eps
The Big Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Carlos Numéro 1
Movie · as Self
Bio’s Bahnhof
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Fan School
TV · as Self · 7 eps
30 millions d'amis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Numéro un
TV · as Self, Self - Host, Self (archive footage) · 19 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 12 eps
Midi Première
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Système 2
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Klimbim
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Malpertuis
Movie · as Bets
Repeated Absences
Movie · as Une femme à la soirée mondaine
J'ai tout donné
Movie · as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Baden-Badener Roulette
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cadet Rousselle
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Unsere kleine Show - Musik zur blauen Stunde
TV · as Self · 1 ep
À bout portant
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Ponies
Movie · as Sylvie Vartan
Europarty
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dim Dam Dom
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Friends of the family
Movie · as Alexa Rollo
Cherchez l'idole
Movie · as Sylvie Vartan
Seize millions de jeunes
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Where Are You From, Johnny?
Movie · as Gigi
Just for Fun
Movie · as Self
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Movie · as La chanteuse yéyé
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Discorama
TV · as Self · 6 eps