Bernard Brumberg " Sheila "

Sheila, whose real name is Annie Chancel, is a French singer, born August 16, 1946 in Créteil. She comes from a humble family originally from near Salins in the Cantal Mauriac, his parents ran a traveling candy market in the southern suburbs of Paris.

Her record sales are announced to 70 million copies. according to the book of SNEP (40 years of tubes 1960-2000) Sheila is the female artist who has received the most gold records (37), only Johnny Hallyday is ahead with 40.
At its disco era, Sheila entered the charts of Cashbox magazine. It records and sings in five languages ​​(English, French, German, Spanish, Italian). In 1962, on the advice of Henry Leproux, Director of Golf Drouot, future producers, Jacques Plait and Claude Carrère, the audition in a disused cinema in the 14th district of Paris with his band: The Brothers Guitars.

Sheila, his first 45 solo, released November 13, 1962 and the producer decides to launch his career as a pseudonym Annie Chancel take "Sheila" the name of the title track of this disc.

She knows her first hit with School's out in 1963. This disc will sell nearly 700,000 copies and is No. 1 in sales of spring. After the release of his first 33 rounds of 13 songs, she began her first tour in October 1963 to early 1964 in major French cities. She will be joined on stage and in his records in 1963 and 1964 with "The Guitar" a group found at the Golf Drouot.

Meanwhile, she received the Grand Prix National du Disque Francis Carco the Académie Charles-Cros, 22 November 1963.

In 1970 the success continued with his first 45 two titles I love you Come back, then in 1971, his album: The Three Kings, is No. 1 in the spring with 908,000 sales. It will also 2nd in Mexico, Argentina 10 th and 10th in Spain with the Spanish version of "Los Reyes Magos" John Schmitt who collaborated with the French adaptation of this title of "Middle of the Road" becomes the author of a number of songs of the artist, and new titles come out late 1971 on the album Love.

At that time Sheila met Ringo in photo shoots done for a photo story published in the magazine Télé Poche. She married the singer, 13 February 1973 in Paris, in the 13th arrondissement, at 13:13 at Notre Dame de la Gare. As soon married, she will record her new husband with the duo: "The gondolas in Venice." It will be the mother of a little boy named Ludovic, in April 1975.

In 1980, Sheila released a new album in French driver on the air, with titles like Love on the phone and the white peaks of Wolfgang. This 33 rpm ​​is gold. It provides all the promotion of the direct disc.

Clips will be on, including Take me where Sheila is dressed by Jean-Paul Gautier. Film title passes to the radio and TV, with good reviews and is preparing his return on stage at the Zenith in Paris in 1985.

Sheila is at the Olympia in October 1989. At the end of the show, it announced its desire to end her singing career, and then began a period of nine years without disks (except the recording of the song "We s'dit nothing" on the occasion the output of a box of his success in 1992).

In 1992, Sheila was a guest of Stars Music Special with Michel Drucker a rate that will make exceptional hearing. It seems a new title s'dit nothing to mark the release of a boxed CD with 4 songs.

She then devoted himself to sculpture and writing of books: The Paths of Light (1993), Just Like Heaven (1995), La Captive (1997).

A new album for you Only was released in September 2002, only seven tracks, which was recorded during the summer, between the death of his father and mother. A special show in prime time on France 2 is devoted to the release of this new album. With Françoise Hardy, Dave, Serge Lama, Pierre Arditi, Pascal Sevran, and Jean-Marie Perrier.

Out a book Do not be fooled by appearances in 2002 with a cover photo by Jean-Marie Perrier, where it settles accounts with the business. In 2005, his son Ludovic Chancel out a book called Son, through which he tells how difficult it is to live in the shadow of his mother.

In early 2008, she played the lead role in the film The turkey made ​​for Canal +. This short film is part of the collection to Write ... a singer, was released at the International Festival of Short Films from Clermont-Ferrand February 7, 2008. It was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Week in May 2008. She is back on stage at the Olympia March 4, 2008.

As of March 13, 2009, and for a whole year, Sheila was part of the tour early age and season four wooden heads.

She was showing of the season five of the tour for a year from March 15, 2010 While continuing his own concerts across France.

Sheila will celebrate its 50-year career in September 2012 in New York at the famous Beacon Theatre, Broadway.