Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg on 2 April 1928 in Paris, was the son of Russian Jewish émigrés, a pianist and his wife; during the Occupation, he had to wear the yellow star. He studied painting at the Beaux-Arts, then played the piano in Paris bars and cabarets, and in 1954 took the name under which he signed. A songwriter, composer and performer, he wrote for many singers from the late 1950s onwards. He directed four feature films between 1976 and 1990. He died at home, rue de Verneuil, in Paris, on 2 March 1991.

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• Feature filmEquatorÉquateurSerge Gainsbourg · 1983Cinema