BIOGRAPHY :
Brigitte Fontaine was born June 24, 1939 in Morlaix in Brittany (France) of a schoolteacher father who will give him the taste of writing. Student studious, she spends her bachelor's degree which she obtained the note from nineteen in philosophy. Love the French language, she wants to pursue a career as an actress and classical moved to Paris in the late fifties. There she played in various parts, but just to be recognized. She then launches into the song by interpreting his texts in several nightclubs in the capital. It provides the first part of George Brassens and Barbara in 1964.

The following year, she released her first album with jazzy and under surprising announcement that the artistic direction of Brigitte Fontaine: "Songs decadent and phantasmagorical. Brigitte Fontaine became one of the spearheads of the new French song as singers light marking the end of the ye-ye. Far criteria hits the charts, Brigitte Fontaine recorded a dozen albums poetic texts filled with gravity. By the early eighties, she decided to pause in his musical career to devote himself to writing itself. It takes a novel, a collection of short stories and written three plays. In the late eighties, Brigitte Fontaine knows a huge success in Japan and made his return to France in the early ninety. She goes from an album every two or three years and has collaborated with numerous other artists such as Etienne Daho, Alain Bashung, Gotan Project and Olivia Ruiz. Become an icon of the French underground song in 2009, Brigitte Fontaine continues to delight his fans with his new opus "Prohibition".