Anne-Marie David (born 23 May 1952) is a French singer. She has represented both

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and

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at the

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, winning in

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and placing third in

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Career

David was born and raised in

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, and in

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. During middle school, she moved with her family to

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. She started her musical career at age 18 in Paris when she became involved with musical theatre. In 1972, she was cast in the role of

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in the French production of ''

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''. 1972 also saw her submit the song "Un peu romantique" to the French selection committee for the

. It made the final shortlist of ten songs. In 1973, she was selected to represent

as the Grand Duchy sought to repeat its previous year's triumph on home soil in the

. She thus joined the long list of non-native performers to have represented the country in the contest, which also includes

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(the 1965 winner) and

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(the 1972 winner). The 1973 contest crystallised into a three-way battle between songs that have since established themselves as Eurovision classics: David's "

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", the Spanish entry "

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", and the United Kingdom's "

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", performed by

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. Ultimately six points separated the third place from David, securing the second successive triumph for

. After the contest, she started touring the world. She lived in

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for a while, recorded two singles in Turkish and one album and received several awards in the country. She returned to Eurovision in the 1979 contest held in

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, this time representing her native France with the song "

Je suis l'enfant soleil "" (; translated: "I am the sun-child" or "I'm a child of the sun") was the in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in French by Anne-Marie David. David had won Eurovision six years earlier, representing at the 1973 contest with "". T ...

". Once again it was a tight three-way finish, with the Israeli entry "

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" edging to a home victory leaving David in third place. She started to tour France in the 1980s. Between 1982 and 1983, she continued her musical career in

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. In 1987, she retired from music but returned in 2003. In 2005, she sang at the festival for the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in

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, where she performed the

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Eurovision winner "

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". She attended the live music show of Turkish Radio Television (TRT) before the

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Eurovision Final was aired live, with Johnny Logan (1980, 1987 ESC winner). According to ESCRadio.com, in 2011, David released a new revamped version of her 1973 winning song, aptly named "Tu Te Reconnaîtras (Encore Une Fois)". Together with the German pop artist Mave O'Rick she released her comeback single "International" in late 2015, being recommended by Song Contest Consulting as a nomination for

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, (Germany) and

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for the

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. In 2017, after a chance meeting in Austria, Anne Marie David, visited

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in Suffolk and throug
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founder James Sheen, discovered the story of the first patron saint of the English, King Edmund. She became very interested in the story of King Edmund, she began work, alongside the compose
Jean Musy
to create an Oratorio musical based on the legend of this King who became a Saint. The Oratorio was initially performed in

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and then again in Amboise, France. After delays through the lockdown years of covid, work resumed and took on a greater pace in 2023, planning the full English version, to be performed in the hometown of the Saint, for November 2024 at St Marys Church.

References

External links

Official Anne-Marie David website
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