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Anne Pigalle is a singer, musician, performer, writer and artist photographer who grew up in Paris, moved to London, and has performed extensively across some of the world.
In 1985 she released an album Everything could be so perfect and a mini hit single "Hé! Stranger" with Trevor Horn on ZTT Records. She has performed all over the world, including Japan, France, America and the UK. She has collaborated with many artists. She represented France at the Yamaha Song Festival in 1986 with the song "Where the sun meets the sea".
She has worked with Michael Nyman ("the kiss" for channel 4) and Adrian Sherwood and has produced and appeared in TV commercials for Jean Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfield. She has been photographed by the late Lord Snowdon, Mario Testino and Nick Knight for the cover of ID magazine.
Pigalle is the creator of the 'amerotic salons' which is part lecture, part performance[citation needed]. In these salons Pigalle demonstrates the difference between eroticism and pornography (ame means soul in French). She has performed these salons at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008 and at the Colony Room in London. She has been compared in many magazines reviews to Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary West and has been called a genius by the late Donald Cammell[citation needed].
Her latest club venture "Spirit of Ecstasy" at the Grill Room at the Cafe Royal was praised as 3rd best night in Time Out Magazine in 2007[citation needed].
She has released Amerotica, a new compilation of songs, on her website as a limited edition and is now working on her film project[citation needed].
Pigalle's photography is held by the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London where her show "Amerotica" was voted fourth best in The Times in 2006, and extended three more weeks due to its success[citation needed].
Album
Everything Could Be So Perfect (ZangTumb Tumb- ZTT Records, 1985) Musical co-ordination and songwriting by Nick Plytas (except 'Looking for Love' written by Pigalle) and production by Luis Jardim (except 'Why Does It Have To Be this Way' produced by Trevor Horn).
Tracklisting:
- Why does it have to be this way
- Via vagabond
- Looking for love
- He! stranger
- Intermission
- Souvenir d'un Paris
- A crack in the ocean
- The 1000 colours waltz
External Links and References
- Pigalle's site
- Pigalle's page at MySpace
- Blitz, no. 28, February 1985.
- Gibbs, Joe. "Anne Pigalle". TMCQ, Autumn 2005.
- Martin, Peter. "Anne Pigalle". Smash Hits 24 April 1985. (Note on the top page of this website: ZTTaat is made up of information sourced from sleeve notes, magazines, websites and hearsay. As such, all information found here should be treated with the suspicion it deserves.)
- Storrow, Claire. "2007 L'Ange Lapine". Review of performance at Café Royal, London.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/content/articles/2007/05/21/anne_pigalle_feature.shtml 2007
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