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Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorise, although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians. Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, which have been covered more than 1,000 times by diverse artists. His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre, provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones. Since his death from a second heart attack in 1991, Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France. While controversial in his lifetime, he has become one of France's best-loved public figures. He has also gained a cult following across the world with chart success in the United Kingdom and Belgium with "Je t'aime... moi non plus" and "Bonnie and Clyde", respectively. Serge Gainsbourg was born in Paris on 2 April 1928, in the maternity ward of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris on the Île de la Cité. He was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Joseph and Olga Ginsburg. Born Brucha Goda Besman (nicknamed Olia/Olga) in Feodosiya in 1894, Serge's mother was a mezzo-soprano singer. Serge's father Joseph was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire of Ukrainian Jewish heritage in 1896. Originally interested in painting, he entered the Petrograd Conservatory and then the Moscow Conservatory to study music, becoming a classically trained pianist. He came to Crimea, where he met and married Olga in 1918. The couple fled Odessa for Paris via Georgia and then Istanbul in the years following the Russian Revolution. The couple arrived in Marseille in 1921, settling in Paris near Olga's brother, who worked for the Louis Dreyfus Bank. Joseph became a piano performer at bars, casinos, and cabarets, while Olga sang at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff. Serge and his twin sister Liliane had an elder brother Marcel, born in 1922, who died at sixteen months of pneumonia. They also had an older sister Jacqueline, born in 1926. The family lived in the working-class districts of Paris, first at 35 Rue de la Chine in the 20th arrondissement, and then at 11 Rue Chaptal in the 9th arrondissement. They obtained French nationality in 1932. Joseph taught Serge and Liliane to play the piano. At age 12, Serge enrolled at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Gainsbourg's childhood was profoundly affected by the occupation of France by Germany during World War II. The identifying yellow star that Jews were required to wear haunted Gainsbourg; in later years he was able to transmute this memory into creative inspiration. Early in the summer of 1941, the family temporarily sought refuge in the commune of Courgenard in the Sarthe department, at a place called "La Bassetière," with Baptiste and Irma Dumur. ... Source: Article "Serge Gainsbourg" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1928-04-02
- event Death Date 1991-03-02
- school Known for: Acting
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Serge Gainsbourg
6.3
The Gardener of Argenteuil
1966-10-07
5.1
Mr. Freedom
1969-01-08
0
Les Enfants de la Pop 80's
2012-10-22
8.7
Serge Gainsbourg – D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
2005-04-25
5.9
I Love You All
1980-12-17
5.5
Anna
1998-08-29
4
Cannabis
1970-09-02
4.9
Charlotte for Ever
1986-12-10
5.4
Paris Does Not Exist
1969-10-22
5.7
Come Dance with Me!
1959-12-18
4.3
Katmandu
1969-09-26
8
Droit de Réponse
1981-12-12
7.2
Gainsbourg... Casino de Paris 1986
1986-10-03
5.6
Slogan
1969-07-27
3.1
The Rage of War
1971-07-08
5.6
Sweet Skin
1963-05-16
7.7
Le Zenith de Gainsbourg
1989-11-07
5.4
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
1973-04-12
5.1
Stan the Flasher
1990-03-07
0
Serge Gainsbourg, entre les murs
2018-09-23
2.5
Romance of a Horsethief
1971-08-11
7
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019-05-07
5.6
The Revolt of the Slaves
1960-12-30
4.1
The Fury of Hercules
1962-05-21
0
Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes
2003-01-01
5.6
Erotissimo
1969-06-07
3.4
Serious as Pleasure
1975-01-15
6.5
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
6.2
The Big Pardon
1982-01-27
1
Four Queens for an Ace
1966-10-05
7
Jane by Charlotte
2022-01-12
5.7
The Looters
1967-08-08
10
The World of Gaston Rébuffat
2009-01-01
6.5
Melody
1971-12-22
0
Gainsbourg, art(s) et essai(s)
2018-04-01
5
Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self Portrait
2012-02-15
6.7
Pasha
1968-03-14
7
Public Speaking
2011-02-23
7.2
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07
2
Love in the Night
1968-06-10
6.7
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988-03-02
2.8
Seduction Squad
1972-11-29
8.5
The Discreet Françoise Hardy
2016-09-23
6.9
Reporters
1981-06-10
5.3
Samson
1961-12-23
0
Gainsbourg... Le Zénith - Live
1990-01-01
9
De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre 1958-1991
2000-11-07
7.7
The Beaches of Agnès
2008-12-17
5.8
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967-05-01
1
L'inconnue de Hong Kong
1963-08-02
6.5
Whitney: Can I Be Me
2017-04-24
0
Spécial Bardot
1968-06-08
5.9
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
1968-06-07
9
Jane Birkin - Alcaline le Concert
2017-11-03
5.2
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
1980-10-28
0
All Mad About Him
1967-05-24
0
L'affaire Matzneff
2020-01-05
8
Jane Birkin: Simply an Icon
2019-11-01
5
Anna Karina, Remember
2020-06-13
0
Teuf-teuf
1963-10-05
6
La Story de Serge Gainsbourg : Le Punchliner
2021-02-28
0
Souvenirs of Serge
2011-02-27
8
Serge Gainsbourg, les meilleures chansons
2021-05-06
7.2
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010-04-11
0
Christmas at Vaugirard
1966-12-23
4.1
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010-01-18
7.8
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022-01-19
9
Gainsbourg, toute une vie
2021-02-20
7.4
Oh Les Filles!
2019-07-03
5.5
Brigitte Bardot: Divine B.B.
2004-03-14
0
The truth about Brigitte Bardot
2014-09-23
0
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009-10-21
7.5
Bardot, The Misunderstanding
2013-11-27
0
Brigitte Bardot confidentiel
2022-12-22
6
Numéro un
1975-04-05
2
La semaine des 4 Julie
2020-01-06
10
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
1968-03-11
3.4
Victoires de la musique
1985-11-23
5.6
Nulle part ailleurs
1987-08-31
6.3
Samedi Sébastien
2021-04-17
6
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12
8
À bout portant
1968-12-16
0
Archives secrètes
2021-09-09
0
Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25
8
Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12
0
Cadet Rousselle
1971-11-04
6
Dim Dam Dom
1965-03-07
6
Dim Dam Dom
1965-03-07
6
Midi trente
1972-03-06
10
Midi Première
1975-01-06
6.6
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022-12-21
6.3
Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16
9
Apostrophes
1975-01-10
6
Please Turn the Page
1977-04-20
6
Die Drehscheibe
1964-04-01
0
Discorama
1959-02-04
6
40° à l'ombre
1987-06-29
3
Vivement dimanche
1998-09-20
5.8
30 millions d'amis
1976-01-06
6
Samedi soir
1971-01-09
5.1
Sacrée Soirée
1987-09-02
9
Vidocq
1967-01-07
5.1
Sacrée Soirée
1987-09-02
4.7
Film '72
1971-11-16
0
Fréquenstar
1988-04-03
0
Le Trésor des treize maisons
1961-10-22
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The Defector
1966-10-19
0
I Love You, I Don't
1976-03-10
0
I Love You, I Don't
1976-03-10
0
French Fried Vacation
1978-11-11
0
I Love You, I Don't
1976-03-10
0
The Gardener of Argenteuil
1966-10-07
0
The Wolves in the Sheepfold
1960-02-05
0
Ménage
1986-04-23
0
Mr. Freedom
1969-01-08
0
Elisa
1995-02-01
0
Charlotte for Ever
1986-12-10
0
Stan the Flasher
1990-03-07
0
Pasha
1968-03-14
0
Belle & Sebastian: The Black Sessions
1998-05-10
0
Belle & Sebastian: The Black Sessions
1998-05-10
0
Le Zenith de Gainsbourg
1989-11-07
0
Anna
1998-08-29
0
Sex Shop
1972-10-25
0
I Love You All
1980-12-17
0
Equator
1983-08-17
0
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967-05-01
0
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964-08-14
0
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964-08-14
0
The Other One
1967-10-10
0
Emmanuelle 3
1977-10-14
0
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964-08-14
0
The Discreet Françoise Hardy
2016-09-23
0
Charlotte for Ever
1986-12-10
0
Charlotte for Ever
1986-12-10
0
Slogan
1969-07-27
0
The Rage of War
1971-07-08
0
Seduction Squad
1972-11-29
0
Melancoly Baby
1979-08-29
0
Melody
1971-12-22
0
Melody
1971-12-22
0
Stan the Flasher
1990-03-07
0
Stan the Flasher
1990-03-07
0
Equator
1983-08-17
0
Equator
1983-08-17
0
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
1968-06-07
0
All Mad About Him
1967-05-24
0
Paris Does Not Exist
1969-10-22
0
Anna
1998-08-29
0
Dans le vent
1963-10-10
0
The Horse
1970-02-22
0
Private Screening
1973-10-08
0
Cannabis
1970-09-02
0
Pasha
1968-03-14
0
Renaud - Morgane de toi
1983-11-12
0
Le Zenith de Gainsbourg
1989-11-07
0
A Game for Six Lovers
1960-01-20
0
Sweet Skin
1963-05-16
0
How Do You Like My Sister?
1964-03-04
0
Four Queens for an Ace
1966-10-05
0
Horizon
1967-04-12
0
If I Were a Spy
1967-08-30
0
Manon 70
1968-02-21
0
Katmandu
1969-09-26
0
Madame Claude
1977-05-11
0
Mode in France
1985-10-30
0
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
2010-01-20
0
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
1969-12-04
0
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967-05-01
0
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967-05-01
0
I Love You, I Don't
1976-03-10
0
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977-11-16
0
Gainsbourg... Casino de Paris 1986
1986-10-03
0
The River of Diamonds
1964-07-22
0
Nocturnal Uproar
1979-09-26
0
Naked Hearts
1966-12-06
0
Je t'aime moi non plus
1994-12-01
0
Serge Gainsbourg – D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
2005-04-25
0
Serge Gainsbourg – D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
2005-04-25
0
Sweet Skin
1963-05-16
0
Tous les garçons...
1992-01-01
0
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
1977-10-19
0
Pretend It's a City
2021-01-08
0
Vidocq
1967-01-07