Marie Myriam
{{short description|French singer of Portuguese descent (born 1957)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
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|birth_place = Luluabourg, Belgian Congo
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Marie Myriam (born Myriam Lopes Elmosninos, 8 May 1957, Luluabourg, Belgian Congo, (now Democratic Republic of the Congo){{citation needed|date=April 2025}} is a French singer.
Career
Representing France, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with L'oiseau et l'enfant ("The bird and the child") the day before her 20th birthday, with music by Jean Paul Cara and words by Joe Gracy. The single reached No. 42 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1977.{{cite book|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2006|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|edition= 19th|publisher=Guinness World Records Limited|location=London, UK|isbn=1-904994-10-5|page=385}} This achievement made her the first Eurovision winner to be born after the creation of the contest itself.
In 1981, Myriam also represented France in the Yamaha Music Festival with the song "Sentimentale"; she came in ninth place. In recent years, she has read out the votes of the French Jury at the Eurovision Song Contest.{{Cite web |title=Lyrics |url=https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/1155937/Marie+Myriam/ENCORE}}
Myriam made an appearance at the 50th anniversary concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2005 as a guest presenter and performer. The same year, she wrote the introduction to the French edition of The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History by John Kennedy O'Connor.O'Connor, John Kennedy. Eurovision Song Contest – Le Livre Officiel Des 50 Ans. Succès Du Livre 2005. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
Personal life
Myriam was married to music producer Michel Elmosnino from the late 1970s until his death at age 67 on 20 December 2013. The marriage produced two children: Laureen, born 1982, now a master of ceremony and Rick, born in 1990, an assistant director and photographer.{{cite web |url=http://www.rickelmos.com |title = RICHARD ELMOS}}{{cite news|first=Yann|last=Messina|url=http://esctoday.com/73331/france-tragic-christmas-marie-myriam|title=France: Tragic Christmas for Marie Myriam|work=Esctoday.com|date=5 January 2013|access-date=22 March 2014}}
Discography
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=Albums=
==Studio albums==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:15em;" | Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:15em;" | Album details ! colspan="2" |Peak chart positions |
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | FRA {{Cite web|date=2015-09-24|title=InfoDisc : Les Albums (CD) de 1977 par InfoDisc|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1977.php|access-date=2021-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034934/http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1977.php|archive-date=2015-09-24}} ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | QUE |
|---|
| scope="row" |Marie Myriam
| | 18 |— |
| scope="row" |Marie Myriam
|
| — |— |
| scope="row" |Marie Myriam sur l'île aux enfants
|
| — |— |
| scope="row" |Marie Myriam chante Blanche Neige
|
| — |— |
| scope="row" |Calin caline
|
| — |37 |
| scope="row" | En plein cœur
| | — |— |
| scope="row" | VII
|
| — |— |
| scope="row" | Tous les anges chantent
|
| — |— |
| colspan="4" style="font-size:8pt" |"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
==Compilation albums==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:15em;" | Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:15em;" | Album details ! colspan="2" scope="col" | Peak chart positions |
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | BE (WA) {{Cite web|title=ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS|url=https://www.ultratop.be/fr/search.asp?cat=a&from=&to=&search=marie+myriam|access-date=2021-09-21|website=www.ultratop.be}} ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | FRA |
|---|
| scope="row" |Sentimentale
|
| — | — |
| scope="row" |Tout simplement
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| — | — |
| scope="row" |L'oiseau et l'enfant
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| scope="row" |14 plus grands succès
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| — | — |
| scope="row" |Charmes – Ses plus belles chansons
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| — | — |
| scope="row" |Atouts – Ses plus beaux inédits
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| — | — |
| scope="row" |Master série
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| — | — |
| scope="row" |Encore
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| — | — |
| scope="row" |Référence 80
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|— |— |
| scope="row" |40 ans de carrière
|
| 84 | 172 |
| colspan="4" style="font-size:8pt" |"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
=Singles=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" |
| rowspan="2" |Name
! rowspan="2" style="width:2em;"|Year ! colspan="10" | Peak chart positions ! rowspan="2" |Album |
|---|
| scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;"|FRA {{Cite web|title=InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque Artiste commençant par M|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Tubes_Artistes_M.php|access-date=2021-09-21|website=www.infodisc.fr}}{{Cite web|title=lescharts.com - Les charts français|url=https://lescharts.com/search.asp?search=Marie+Myriam&cat=s|access-date=2021-09-21|website=lescharts.com}} ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;"|AUT ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |BE (FLA) ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |BE (WA) ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |GER ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |NL ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |QUE ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |SWE ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |SWI ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" |UK |
| scope="row" |"Ma colombe"
|1976 |— |— |— |— |— |— |2 |— |— |— |{{N/A|Non-album single}} |
| scope="row" |"L'oiseau et l'enfant"
| rowspan="4" |1977 |1 |15 |6 |1 |19 |23 |8 |5 |2 |42 | rowspan="5" |Marie Myriam (1977) |
| scope="row" |"La leçon de Prévert"
|12 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Aime" (Germany-only release)
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Toutes les chansons du monde"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |5 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"L'amour c'est comme la mer" (Canada and Portugal-only release)
| rowspan="2" |1978 | align="center" valign="center" |— |— |— |— |— |— |21 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Loin, loin"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |{{N/A|Non-album single}} |
| scope="row" |"Un homme libre"
| rowspan="3" |1979 |40 |— |— |— |— |— |18 |— |— |— | rowspan="2" |Marie Myriam (1979) |
| scope="row" |"Toujours partir" (b/w "Le cœur somnambule")
|60 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Casimir, mon ami"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |Marie Myriam sur l'île aux enfants |
| scope="row" |"Los olvidados"
| rowspan="3" |1980 |— |— |— |— |— |— |15 |— |— |— | rowspan="2" {{N/A|Non-album singles}} |
| scope="row" |"Noël"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Les visiteurs de Noël"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |Marie Myriam sur l'île aux enfants |
| scope="row" |"J'aime quand tu es jaloux"
| rowspan="2" |1981 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |{{N/A|Non-album single}} |
| scope="row" |"Un sourire en chantant"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |Marie Myriam chante Blanche Neige |
| scope="row" |"Sentimentale"
|1982 |64 |— |— |— |— |— |6 |— |— |— | rowspan="5" {{N/A|Non-album singles}} |
| scope="row" |"Alors"
| rowspan="3" |1983 |— |— |— |— |— |— |24 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Candy grandit"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"La chanson de Nils Holgersson"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Sur ma planète"
| rowspan="2" |1984 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Nostalgia"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |2 |— |— |— | rowspan="3" |Calin caline |
| scope="row" |"C'est calin caline"
| rowspan="2" |1985 |— |— |— |— |— |— |11 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" | "Qu’est-ce que t'as qui va pas ?"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |37 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Tout est pardonné"
|1987 |6 |— |— |— |— |— |6 |— |— |— | rowspan="4" |En plein cœur |
| scope="row" |"Dis-moi les silences"
| rowspan="3" |1988 | align="center" valign="center" |43 |— |— |— |— |— |39 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"En plein cœur"
|— |— |— |— |— |— |29 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Celui qui s'en va" (Canada-only release)
|— |— |— |— |— |— |45 |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"La solitude des rois"
|1989 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |{{N/A|Non-album single}} |
| scope="row" |"T'en va pas" (Canada-only release)
|1991 |— |— |— |— |— |— |14 |— |— |— | rowspan="2" |VII |
| scope="row" |"P'tit homme"
|1992 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |
| scope="row" |"Un homme libre"
|1993 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |Tout simplement |
| scope="row" |"L'oiseau et l'enfant" (version 2002)
|2002 |71 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |{{N/A|Non-album single}} |
| colspan="13" style="font-size:8pt" |"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{commons category|Marie Myriam}}
- [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1977fr L'oiseau et l'enfant lyric with English translation]
- [http://www.bide-et-musique.com/artist/545.html Bide et Musique entry]
- {{IMDb name|id=1059038|name=Marie Myriam}}
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{{succession box
| before={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Brotherhood of Man
with "Save Your Kisses for Me"
| title=Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
| years=1977
| after={{flagicon|Israel}} Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta
with "A-Ba-Ni-Bi"
}}
{{succession box
| before=Catherine Ferry
with "Un, deux, trois"
| title=France in the Eurovision Song Contest
| years=1977
| after=Joël Prévost
with "Il y aura toujours des violons"
}}
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{{List of Eurovision Song Contest winners}}
{{France in the Eurovision Song Contest|state=collapsed}}
{{Eurovision Song Contest 1977|state=collapsed}}
{{Songs of Europe (Eurovision)|state=collapsed}}
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Category:French people of Portuguese descent