Iconic French pop singer Gall dies aged 70

French pop singer France Gall, who sold millions of albums over a four-decade career, has died at the age of 70.

Her agent, Genevieve Salama, said the singer died of cancer in Paris yesterday. French President Emmanuel Macron tweetedthatgall“lastedthrough time thanks to her sincerity and generosity” and said she had left “songs known to all French”. Culture minister Francoise Nyssen also expressed sadness at the news of the singer’s death, praising Gall as a “timeless icon of the French chanson”.

Gall won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg with the song Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son (Wax Doll, Rag Doll). The song was written by French composer Serge Gainsbourg.