Sabine Paturel

Born in Toulon in 1955, Sabine Paturel emerged in French pop in the mid-1980s with light, witty pop marked by a strong sense of performance. Her first single, Les Bêtises, released at the end of 1985, gave her lasting national exposure and entered the Top 50 in 1986. She followed with P’tit Bouchon and the 1987 album Cœur bébé, where her French chanson world combined pop melodies, a mischievous tone and highly theatrical interpretation. From the late 1980s onwards, Sabine Paturel developed a parallel career as an actress on stage and screen, notably in La Menteuse at the Théâtre Marigny, which earned her a Molières nomination, and in roles in La Mégère apprivoisée, Le Barbier de Séville, Dédé, as well as in TV series such as Les Enquêtes Caméléon, Les Cordier, juge et flic and L’Instit. After focusing mainly on theatre in the 1990s, she returned to singing with tours revisiting 1980s repertoire and released the album Atmosphères in 2014. Her more recent singles, from Je me fous de tout (2015) to Femme qu’on assassine (2024), reveal a sometimes more direct writing style, increasingly rooted in social issues.