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Child starlet who became a French icon, Vanessa Paradis was born in Saint-Maur-les-Fossés in the suburb of Paris on December 22, 1972. She first came to attention as an eight-year-old contestant on TV talent show L'école des fans and released her first single "La Magie des surprise-parties" two years later. Her big breakthrough came in 1987 with the huge hit "Joe le taxi" which spent eleven weeks at number one in France and reached number three in the UK, followed by album M&J (for Marylin Monroe and John F. Kennedy, 1988). She worked with Serge Gainsbourg on Variations sur le Même T'Aime (1990) which included a cover of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" before collaborating with then boyfriend Lenny Kravitz, who produced her self-titled third album and the single "Be My Baby" which reached number six in the UK in 1992. Her hushed vocals and elegant innocence have made Paradis every inch the classic French chanteuse and she went on to model for Chanel and act in a series of European films. Her fifth album Divinidylle, released in 2007, won her the Best Pop Album gong at the Victoires de la Musique awards and she embarked on a tour of Europe. She starred in Jean-Marc Vallée's film Café de Flore for which she won the Best Actress award at both Genie and Jutra Awards. Love Songs, including duets with Libertines' Carl Barât on "The Dark, It Comes" and Benjamin Biolay on "Les Roses roses", was released in 2013 followed by the singles "Les Espaces et les sentiments", "Mi Amor" and "Pas besoin de permis". Her seventh album Les Sources was released in 2018, followed by Best Of & Variations, including the single "Vague à l'âme sœur". She collaborated with Nekfeu, Voyou and Étienne Daho before the release of Le Retour des Beaux Jours in October 2025, featuring "Cœur ardent".
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