winner, 1965
France Gall
France Gall represented Luxembourg at Eurovision 1965 in Naples with “Poupée de cire, poupée de son”, and won.
- who
- French singer
- born
- 9 October 1947, 12th arrondissement of Paris, France
- died
- 7 January 2018 (aged 70), Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- contest
- 1965
- win
- 1965
- music
- yé-yé, pop
- active
- 1963 to 2000
- record labels
- Warner Music Group, Atlantic Records, Philips Records
- sang for
- Luxembourg
Biography
France Gall was a French singer of yé-yé and pop. In 1965, aged 17, Gall won the contest in Naples for Luxembourg with “Poupée de cire, poupée de son”.
Later Gall worked with the singer-songwriter Michel Berger. The most successful singles of the career include “Il jouait du piano debout”, “Ella, elle l’a” and “Évidemment”.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “France Gall”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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1965 Naples
“Poupée de cire, poupée de son”
Winner Won the contest with 32 points, ahead of 17 other songs.
- Sung in
- French
- Written by
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Conductor
- Alain Goraguer
- Running order
- 15th of 18
- Age on the night
- 17
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Away from Eurovision
Awards
- Victoires de la Musique – Female artist of the year 1987
- Knight of the Legion of Honour 2013
- Officer of the National Order of Merit 2017
As recorded on Wikidata, which is rarely the whole list.
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- 1965 France Gall's week Moments people still talk about
In our contest stories
What we wrote about France Gall, year by year. Follow a link for the rest of that night.
- 1965 France Gall's week
Luxembourg's entry was "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", written by Serge Gainsbourg and sung by the French teenager France Gall — at seventeen, the youngest performer that year.
- 1965 Why it mattered
Until Naples, the contest had mostly been won by ballads and chansons. "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" was a pop record, the first to win, and it sold like one: top ten across much of Europe, and in Argentina, Japan and Singapore as well. No winner before it had done anything like that.
- 1966 Also that night
The interval act was a French Dixieland jazz band, Les Haricots rouges. The winner's medallion was presented by the previous year's winner, France Gall.
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