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“ Catherine Lara (born Catherine Bodet 29 May 1945 in Poissy, Yvelines) is a French violinist, composer and singer.

Music career
As a child, Lara studied violin and received the first prize of chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1966.
She played and composed for famous singers before starting to sing herself. Her first album, Ad libitum was released in 1972. Since her 1979 album Coup d'fell, her songs are more influenced by rock music. The 1983 album La Rockeuse de diamant provided a major success with the single "La Rockeuse de diamant", and a daring song with "Autonome", in which she says : "[I'm] free to love a woman or a man".
In 1986 she made a breakthrough with the single "Nuit magique" written by Luc Plamondon, her biggest hit that brought her fame and made her win a Victoires de la musique (French Grammy Awards) for best female singer of the year. She published her autobiography in 1987, L'Aventurière de l'archet perdu. She was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 1990.
Still with Plamondon, she worked on a rock opera where she embodied female writer George Sand, titled Sand et [......] ”

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