French pop singer of the 1960s, Annie Philippe was born in Paris on December 17, 1946. She took dance lessons as a child and began singing as a teenager. Noticed at an audition by the conductor Paul Mauriat, she signed with the Riviera label, a subsidiary of Barclay, and recorded her first album with the title "Vous pouvez me dire" (1965). Although not as successful as Sylvie Vartan, France Gall or Françoise Hardy, her cover of The Supremes' "Baby Love" and her subsequent Philips releases " Ticket de quai " (rejected by Richard Anthony), "C'est la mode" (which gave its name to her only original album, released in 1966) and "Ça fait pleurer" put her firmly on the pop map. As such, Annie Philipe was one of the stars featured in Jean-Marie Périer's famous photo for Salut les copains magazine, alongside other yé-yé idols. Her repertoire, featuring original songs by André Pascal, Alain Bashung, Guy Béart, Guy Marchand and Jacques Revaux, includes other popular titles such as "Pas de cab" and "Le Mannequin", as well as the famous EP Lettre pour Annie (1967), whose cover photo by André Berg is often used to symbolize French pop fashion. Claude François' girlfriend for a time, she recorded two EPs on his Flèche label in 1968, before gradually withdrawing from the scene over the following years. In 1988, she appeared in Jean-Paul Belmondo's film Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté, and took part in the production of the compilation L'Intégrale Sixties (1999), followed by others such as Tendres Années 60 (2006), Portrait 1964 / 1967 (2008) and Sensationnel! Yé-Yé Bonbons 1965-1968 (2015). In 2006, the singer embarked on the Âge tendre et tête de bois tour and returned to the stage in the 2010s, with the release of "Les Versets de l'amour". Her songs regularly feature on yé-yé and 1960s pop compilations.
