Anna van der Leeuw (; 11 December 1939 – 30 June 2019), better known by her stage name Anne Vanderlove, was a Dutch-born French singer and songwriter, known as the French

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Life

Vanderlove was born in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

in 1939. Her father was Dutch and her mother was from

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...

. Her parents divorced and she was raised in a Breton way by her mother's parents. She studied philosophy in Paris. In 1966 she found herself again in Paris where the plan had been to set out on a humanitarian mission, instead she was intrigued by the capital's singers. Soon she was singing to entertain. She was engaged at ''Chez Georges'' on rue des Canettes and she was singing her own songs. The following February she was recording her first song "Ballade of November" and months later an album of the same name, after she was discovered by Pathé-Marconi. Her first album was awarded the "Grand Prix" of the Académie de la Chanson Française. She had a number of successful songs but disagreements with her record company scuppered the chances of a second album. She was annoyed that her record company were talking of her having plastic surgery and wearing a blond wig. She had been singing to support strikers during the Paris Riots of 1968. She remained in the music industry and she was backing Gerard Manset on his 1970 album, ''The Death of Orion''. She continued to release albums in 1987. Ten years later she started again and released ''Bleus'' in 1997, ''Silver'' in 1999 and ''Escales'' in 2000. She was then notably involved in a collaboration with a school to release a CD titled, ''Pour que les oiseaux vivre heureux'', after the sinking of the oil tanker

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tragedy. Vanderlove died in

Finistère Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.

in 2019.

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