Anne Pigalle

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Anne Pigalle is a chanteuse who grew up in Paris then moved to London. She is also a photographer, painter, poet, writer and actress .She has performed all over the world, especially in Japan,France, America and the UK, has worked with Michael Nyman ( "the kiss" for channel 4 ), realeased an album with Trevor Horn on ZTT records, has produced and appeared in commercials for JP Gaultier and Lagerfield/Isetan, has been called genius by the late Donald Cammell , has been photographed by the late Lord Snowdon. She is also the creator of the amerotic salons which is part lecture/ part performance where Pigalle demonstrates the difference between eroticism and pornography (ame means soul in french ). She has been compared in many magazines reviews to Piaf, Dietrich and West^{[citation needed]}.

Since her first album she has been living in America and has collaborated with many artists. She has released Amerotica, a new compilation of songs, on her website as a limited edition. Pigalle's photography is held by the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London, where her show Amerotica was voted 4th best in The Times in 2006.

She represented France at the Yamaha Song Festival in 1986 with the song Where the sun meets the sea.

[edit] Album

Everything Could Be So Perfect' (ZangTumb Tumb- ZTT Records, 1985) Musical co-ordination and songwriting by Nick Plytas (except 'Looking for Love' written by Pigalle) and production by Luis Jardim (except 'Why Does It Have To Be this Way' produced by Trevor Horn) . Tracklisting:

• Why does it have to be this way
• Via vagabond
• Looking for love
• He! stranger
• Intermission
• Souvenir d'un Paris
• A crack in the acean
• The 1000 colours waltz

[edit] External Links and Reference

• Pigalle's site
• Pigalle's page at MySpace
• Blitz, no. 28, February 1985.
• Gibbs, Joe. "Anne Pigalle". TMCQ, Autumn 2005.
• Martin, Peter. "Anne Pigalle". Smash Hits 24 April 1985. (Note on the top page of this website: ZTTaat is made up of information sourced from sleeve notes, magazines, websites and hearsay. As such, all information found here should be treated with the suspicion it deserves.)
• Storrow, Claire. "2007 L'Ange Lapine". Review of performance at Café Royal, London.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/content/articles/2007/05/21/anne_pigalle_feature.shtml 2007
• Zang Tuum Tumb and all that