2006 Belgium entrant, Kate Ryan, is presently having a lot of success in Europe, with a version of a hit by1965 Luxembourg (and winning) entrant, France Gall.
Ella, elle l’a, a song written and composed by Gall’s husband – Michel Berger, is a tribute to jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. Taken from the album Babacar, published in 1987, it was not only a smash hit in France but also in Germany. So, strangely, 22 years after her performance in Naples, France Gall suddenly enjoyed a second lapse of international fame (in the meantimes, she recorded quite a lot of songs in German).
At the same moment, a few other French songs placed high in the European charts : “Voyage, Voyage” (by Desireless), “Joe le taxi” (by Vanessa Paradis), “C’est la ouate” (by Caroline Loeb), “A la vie, à l’amour” (by Jackie Quartz), to name a few.Regarding Kate Ryan, the lady seems to be fond of French-speaking songs as she already recorded two hits by Mylène Farmer (“Désenchantée” and “Libertine”), “Voyage, voyage” and “Ella elle l’a”, all being her best selling records til now, together with the Eurovision entry “Je t’adore”, which failed to qualify but managed to top the Belgian charts and to enter other countries’.
France Gall’s original video clip :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQkB-WWzsbg
Kate Ryan
