Stella Zelcer - born December 12, 1950 in Paris.
Stella, born into a Polish Family, was 13 when she recorded her first EP. Between 1963 and 1969, she recorded 9 EPs, 2 singles and an LP (also issued in the US). Her songs were always funny and ironic. Her uncle Chorenslup used to write her lyrics, he was to her what Jacques Lanzman was to Dutronc (Jacques Dutronc, Françoise Hardy's husband, is one of the best sixties' French singers).
In the 70s, Stella married Christian Vander, drummer and spiritual leader of Magma, the most legendary French progressive band. She was actually part of the band too. She had another solo LP in '91 as Stella Vander.
In 1997 Magic Records released 'La Collection Sixties des EPs Francais' a 2CD set of her sixties tracks.
- taken from the excellent and indispensible Yé-Yé Girls website - http://members.tripod.com/ye_ye_girls/home.html .
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"My uncle and I poked fun at the French yé-yé songs- we thought they were more funny than serious. So we started writing songs to capture that irony. He said, "You sing because it looks like singing comes easy to you." So I sang and he played guitar. We made a demo and sent it to the record company closest to where we were living. We didn't search for the biggest or best record company, just the nearest one."
It was in those simple, matter-of-fact terms that Stella explained the start of her pop music career. She was a vocal critic of the pop music establishment- France's defiant tomboy who, together with her uncle Maurice, wrote dozens of songs that went against the grain of the nouvelle vague- the new wave of '60s French singers. I interviewed Stella in the fall of 2003 in the basement studio of her suburban house, located just north of Paris.
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