On July 31, singer Jakie Quartz, star of the 80s, celebrated her 69th birthday. The opportunity to look back on the career of the singer of the hit title Mise à focus, but also on his problems with the law. The details.
The singer Jakie Quartz was born on July 31, 1955 in Paris and spent her entire childhood with her mother in Brittany. It was from a very young age that the singer of the hit song Just a clarification was attracted by theuniverse of spectacle. After being expelled from high school, the artist ends his studies and devotes himself to realizing his dream: comedy. She signed up for Sylvia-Monfort courses to learn chantthe classical dancecomedy and tap dancing. After a great successthe career of the singer will experience a long crossing of the desert. We tell you more.
Jakie Quartz: the singer of the hit song Focus
His first steps in musical comedy
Jacqueline Cuchet, her real name, the singer Jakie Quartz is one of the icons of the 1980s. While she was still studying comedyyoung Jakie Quartz takes part in her very first musical titled Popular front alongside Julien Clerc. She really became known in 1982 thanks to a role in the musical comedy by Bob Decout Reviewed and corrected. The artist plays there alongside Annie Girardot, Guesch Patti now aged 77, Catherine Lara and Manu Katché at the Casino de Paris.
His hit song
The following year, Jakie Quartz became a symbol of the French pop music thanks to its title Focus. In 1983, the title occupied a place in the top 5 sales charts, toured Europe and enjoyed great success. This hit on which the singer worked in collaboration with the composer et arranger Gérard Anfosso, seduced with his half-spoken and half-sung style, a sort of style rap.
Several albums recorded
In total, Jakie Quartz recorded five albums among which Blonde alert in 1984, Day and night in 1987 or even Emotion in the plural in 1988. Then, she will experience a long desert crossing before returning in the early 2000s. In 2003, she recorded the tube If tomorrowthe following year, she participated in the show Winning return. The television program was broadcast on TF1 and was presented by Jean-Pierre Foucault, the companion of Evelyne Jarre.
Jakie Quartz: his return to the forefront of the music scene
Problems with the law
In 2015, the singer returned to the forefront, not to perform her different titresbut for a matter with justice. At the time, the singer was accused of having committed aggravated violence on his 88-year-old mother. The events took place in Orly, in Val-de-Marne, on December 24, 2013 and January 3, 2014. According to the magazine The Parisianit all started with an argument against the backdrop ofantidepressants andalcohol between the artist and his mother. During the very tense exchange, the singer would have slapped his mother numerous times, who will be given 10 days of total incapacity for work.
Son mea culpa
L’affair will be brought before the court. At the helm, Jakie Quartz will try to lighten his penalty by announcing his comeback on the front of the music scene. “At the time, I wasn’t doing anything anymore and now I’m getting a taste for life and writing again. It’s a new life”she confided. It is also this drama which inspired the hit Put to the test. In 2014, the singer was placed under judicial review and was tried before the criminal court of Créteil on February 18 of the same year, reports Here is.
Top hits and most recent public appearance
Remember that an Italian version of Focus, If you look for mewas born in 1983. The same year, in the summer, more than one million copies are sold. In 1986, nothing stopped the artist who can be recognized by his short, tousled blond hair. She releases new hits Live elsewhere, To life, then in 1987, she released the hit To love. However, the performer’s career ended before the 1990s. Jakie Quartz participated in the tour RFM Party 80 in 2023 where she performed her best hitsalongside many others stars like François Feldman, the interpreter of Don’t play.
