Marie Myriam

Marie Myriam (2007)

Marie Myriam (real name: Myriam Lopes ) (born May 8, 1957 in Luluabourg ( Kananga ), Democratic Republic of the Congo ) is a French singer of Portuguese descent.

Career

She celebrated the greatest success of her career in 1977 when she won the Eurovision Song Contest . At the competition, which was held on May 7, 1977 at Wembley , UK , she surprisingly sat down with her chanson L'oiseau et l'enfant (English: 'The bird and the child') (composition: Jean-Paul Cara, text: Joe Gracy) narrowly against local favorites Lynsey de Paul & Mike Moran .

Myriam has released numerous albums in her career. As the last French winner, she was invited almost every year since 1997 to transmit the results to the French jury during the broadcast of the Song Contest.

In 2007 her album Encore was released with titles from the 1980s, new versions of older pieces, but also completely new songs. The Christmas album Tous lesantes followed in 2008 .

Discography (selection)

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		FR	BE W
2017	40 ans de carrière	FR172 (2 weeks) FR	BE W84 (8 weeks) BE W

More albums

• 1977: L'oiseau et l'enfant
• 1987: En plein cœur

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		FR	DE	AT	CH	UK
1977	L'oiseau et l'enfant L'oiseau et l'enfant	-	DE19 (9 weeks) DE	AT15 (4 weeks) AT	CH2 (9 weeks) CH	UK42 (4 weeks) UK
1987	Tout est pardonné en plein cœur	FR6 (18 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-
1988	Dis-moi les silences En plein cœur	FR43 (8 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-
2002	L'oiseau et l'enfant (version 2002)	FR71 (4 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Web links

• Marie Myriam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marie Myriam at Discogs (English)
• Discography at encyclopedisque.fr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR BEW DE AT CH UK