“Sheila” is the Anglo-Saxon version of “Cécile”. In Latin, it means “blind”. A first name that experienced a peak in popularity in the mid-1970s IN France thanks to the fame of the singer of variety that we no longer present… However, the interpreter of “L’école est finie” (1963) does not is not called Sheila, but Annie Chancell. Just like Zazie, Garou, Dalida or even Vitaa, Sheila has indeed chosen to be called only by an original first name.
A stage name that has become over the decades a true identity for the icon of the yéyé years. And for good reason, the one who has nearly thirty albums to her credit has never wanted to change her pseudonym during her long career, unlike many artists who have reinvented themselves by choosing to return to the front of the stage with a brand new stage name like Gims (formerly Maître Gims), Redcar (formerly Christine And The Queens) or even Ye (formerly Kanye West).
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Sheila, this adorable nickname that her father gave her
Invited on the set of “Vivement dimanche” in September 2023, the one everyone knows as Sheila had explained to Michel Drucker the affectionate nickname that her father had given her when she was young. “My father called me ‘the big grasshopper’, so he must say to himself: ‘My grasshopper, she is in good shape'”, she confided on the France 3 set. following by his overflowing energy and his meter seventy-two. “Me, I wanted to be the first dancer at the Paris Opera, I passed the auditions, but I was a little too tall and lanky for the classic”, the singer also remembered afterwards.
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