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Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress and composer whose career has spanned eight decades.
Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1950s she started recording in French and having international success in both French and English, with such songs as "The Little Shoemaker", "Baby Lover", "With All My Heart" and "Prends Mon Coeur". During the 1960s she became known globally for her popular upbeat hits, including "Downtown", "I Know a Place", "My Love", "Colour My World", "A Sign of the Times", and "Don't Sleep in the Subway". She has sold in excess of 68 million records throughout her career.
Born to English father Leslie Norman Clark and Welsh mother Doris (née Phillips), both nurses at Long Grove Hospital, in Epsom, Surrey, England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark. Her father Leslie coined her first name, jokingly alleging it was a combination of the names of two former girlfriends, Pet and Ulla. As a child, she sang in the chapel choir and showed a talent for mimicry, frequently impersonating Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda and Sophie Tucker for the amusement of family and friends. Her father introduced her to theatre when he took her to see Flora Robson in a 1938 production of Mary Tudor; she later recalled that after the performance "I made up my mind then and there I was going to be an actress ... I wanted to be Ingrid Bergman more than anything else in the world." However, her first public performances were as a singer, performing with an orchestra in the entrance hall of Bentall's Department Store in Kingston upon Thames for a tin of toffee and a gold wristwatch, in 1939.
Actors: Roger Miremont (actor), Yvan Lagrange (actor), Yvan Lagrange (actor), Yvan Lagrange (actor), Yvan Lagrange (director), Yvan Lagrange (writer), Frédéric Norbert (actor), Daniel Jouanisson (writer), Odette Laurent (actress), Candice Patou (actress), Françoise Pavy (actress), Bernard Allouf (actor), Martine Leclerc (actress), Brigitte Sousselier (editor), Valentine Albin (actress),
Genres: Musical,Tant qu'on saura que Juliette était blonde
Et Roméo fou d'amour
Tant qu'on saura que notre terre est ronde
Et qu'on en a fait le tour
On verra s'en aller le cortège
Des jolis rêves perdus
Et tourne, tournera le manège
Des amours défendues.
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Roméo
Ton prénom sent si bon l'amour
Roméo
Ton prénom chantera toujours
Roméo
Dans le cÅâ ur des filles des faubourgs
Roméo
Toi qui a su mourir d'amour
Mais aujourd'hui tu irais en Ecosse
Avec ta Juliette au bras
Tu t'en irais sans habit ni carrosse
Lui passer la bague au doigt
Tu oublierais tes parents insensibles
Mais toi, pauvre de toi,
Pour sauver un amour impossible
Tu n'avais pas le choix.