Singer Marianne Faithfull dies at 78
British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at age 78, according to the BBC collecting statements from a family spokesman.
“With deep sadness we announce the death of the singer, composer and actress Marianne Faithfulull,” says the statement. “Marianne died peacefully in London today, in the company of her beloved family,” he adds. And he expresses: “We will miss it deeply.”
He began his career as a singer in 1965 and this lasted along more than twenty albums, thanks to a voice that became serious and charismatic. Faithfull was a couple of Mick Jagger, singer of the Rolling Stones, in the late 60s, which pushed his popularity.
Your first success, As tears go by, He was on that first album, a theme composed of Jagger, Keith Richards and Rolling's producer and manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. In fact it was the first they wrote. Simultaneously to the first album a second came out, Eat my way, andto that on the one hand the record company pressed to publish a pop album while she wanted to make a folk (“in her way”, as indicated by the title).
His popularity grew thanks to the films in which he participated in the late sixties, such as Georgina (1967) with Orson Welles, The motorcycle girl (1968) together with Alain Delon, and Hamlet (1969).
During the seventies, his career was affected by the abuse of heroin, which linked to laryngitis, was altering his voice. But in 1979 he starred in an acclaimed return, with the album Broken English, influenced by the New Wave. From there, he channeled his career with several albums in the 1980s.
In the first decade of this century, Faithfull reborn from the hand of prestigious collaborations, with Nick Cave, Etienne Daho, PJ Harvey or Damon Albarn. His latest song album, the twenty -title Negative capability, He published it in 2018. However, more recently, he recorded a record of Spoken Word in which he recited British poets of romanticism, accompanied by musical arrangements of Warren Ellis, Brian Eng or Nick Cave, entitled She Walks in Beauty.
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