Monique Andrée Serf (June 9, 1930 – November 24, 1997), whose stage name was Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her Russian grandmother, Varvara Brodsky. Her song "L'Aigle noir" sold twenty four thousand in twelve hours.
Born in Paris to a Jewish family, Barbara was ten years old when she had to go into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II. After the war ended, a neighborhood professor of music heard her sing and took an interest in helping her develop her talents. She was given vocal lessons and taught to play the piano, and eventually she enrolled at the Ecole Supérieure de Musique. Money was a problem and she gave up her musical studies to sing at "La Fontaine des Quatre Saisons," a popular cabaret in Paris.
She was deeply scarred by the war and her family's plight. The feelings of emptiness experienced during childhood showed in her songs, particularly "Mon Enfance". She said in her uncompleted autobiography, Il était un piano noir (assembled from notes found after her death), that her father sexually abused her when she was ten and she hated him for that. He later abandoned the family.
te pido una oportunidad de que me brindes tu amor, de que me des un espacio en tu corazon.
me siento tambien cuando tus labios dejan su sensacion en mis mejillas.
CORO:
abreme tu corazon asi como yo logre abrir el mio, abre las puertas para que pueda pasar.
abreme tu corazon dejame enamorarlo dame una oportunidad.
me siento a diario y lo unico que hago es pensar en ti y en todos esos momentos que paso junto a ti.
de pronto me imagino que estas aqui viviendo en mi corazon cree que sin ti no soy nada a quien le brindo mi amor.
abreme tu corazon dejalo abierto de par en par para poder pasar
abreme tu corazon asi como yo logre abrir el mio
abreme tu corazon abre las puertas dejame enamorarlo
dame una oportunidad
abreme tu corazon.