Françoise Nivot (25 December 1945 – 30 April 2000), known professionally as Marjorie Noël (), was a French pop singer who had a brief career in the mid-1960s, and is best known for her participation on behalf of

Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

in the

Eurovision Song Contest 1965 The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the tenth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Naples, Italy, following the country's victory at the with the song "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti. Organised by the European ...

. Noël was born in Paris. Her first recordings were released in 1964, and the following year she was invited to represent Monaco in the tenth

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...

, to take place in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, Italy on 20 March. The chosen song, "" ("Go Tell Love"), a gentle strings-driven ballad, ended in ninth place out of 18 entries. The single record of "" reportedly sold 20,000 times in France, and 300,000 in Japan. She would later take part in the 1965 festival in

Antibes Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. The town of ...

, and released in total seven EPs. Noël retired from showbusiness in 1967 and spent the rest of her life in anonymity. She died of a

cerebral hemorrhage Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain, into its ventricles, or into both. It is one kind of bleed ...

Cavaillon Cavaillon (; Provençal: ''Cavalhon'') is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France.

, Vaucluse, on 30 April 2000, aged 54.

Discography

* 1964: "" * 1964: "" * 1965: "" * 1965: "" * 1965: "" * 1966: "" * 1967: ""

References

External links

Discography and cover art at encyclopédisque.fr
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