Gall Franz Biography

Among her relatives, musicians predominated. This is what France herself tells about this: “My grandfather, Paul Bertier, was a holy man, and besides, he was an artist, a composer of liturgical music. His famous “Sleep, My Dove” performed by Petits Chanteurs a la Croix de Bois - a choir that he created at twenty years old with two comrades - bypassed the whole world. He also, for the sake of entertainment, played on a large organ in a spoke cathedral, opposite which he lived with his wife Genevieve and three children, one of whom was my mother, Cecil.

Every evening they gathered in a music room to play and sing Bach, in a family circle or with musicians. In the family of my mother, the expression "damn" was considered a curse. My father Robert Gall was born in a beautiful neighboring village of Saint-Fargio. At the age of 2 months, he lost his father in the First World War, and in the Second World War - the only brother. My father, raised by her mother, had a very beautiful voice.

Participating in the cathedral choir under the control of the Bertier Field - my grandfather - he met his mother. Cecile was 16 years old, he - my father received the first award upon admission to the school of classic vocals in Paris, when a war broke out. At 20, he was mobilized. He will save his life that he will get typhoid. The Germans took everyone except my father, who was contagious.

Later he will be sent to the front as an artist for the entertainment of troops, where he will perform with the pop singer Andre Klavo. When he leaves for the free zone, he will earn a living by performing pop melodies and composing songs. The classic was over. It was at this moment that he asks for the hands of my mother at the Berthier, who refuses him. They do not marry their daughter for a pop singer.

It's simple. For my father too. One night, he abducts my mother and marries her. Immediately after that, he answers his father -in -law with a song in which he sings, which is better to be called “Mr. Schubert” if you want to marry a girl you love. This will be the first success of Robert Gall - the singer. I was born in the Twelfth District of Paris on October 9, sixteen months after the birth of my twin brothers.

I had a normal childhood, except for the fact that my father sometimes took me with him at night to see Piaf on stage or at her house, on the boulevard of van. He wrote to her songs. Or took me with him for several days to Belgium, to see Charles Aznavour. My father wrote for him the lyrics of the song “La Mamma”, to the death of his mother, ”the song was a peremp, among others, Ray Charles.

The girl was inseparable with her brothers, with whom she played football, which would accompany Isabelle at school, where she would become one of the best in the team, and sang, and, of course, sometimes it came to the quarrel, especially if the brothers, deciding to tease her sister, called her a “girl”. At the age of five, Isabelle begins to study the piano play, at eleven - on the guitar, and at thirteen creates a group with the brothers in which they play the guitars, and she sings.