Patricia Kaas's music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson.
39 Facts About Patricia Kaas
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Patricia Kaas had her greatest success in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, and South Korea with her third album Je te dis vous.
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Patricia Kaas represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow and finished in eighth place.
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Patricia Kaas, the youngest of her family, was born on 5 December 1966 in Forbach, Lorraine, France, near the German border.
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Patricia Kaas's father, Joseph Kaas, a miner, was a French Germanophone and her mother, Irmgard, was a German from Saar.
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Patricia Kaas's mother encouraged Kaas, then a young girl, to become a singer.
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At the age of only eight Patricia Kaas was already singing songs by Sylvie Vartan, Dalida, Claude Francois and Mireille Mathieu, as well as English-language songs such as "New York, New York", at various small events such as the marriage of her brother.
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Patricia Kaas took her first step into the professional music business at the age of 13, when, with the help of her brother Egon, she signed a contract with the Saarbrucken club Rumpelkammer.
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In 1985, at 19 years old, Patricia Kaas was sponsored by French actor Gerard Depardieu.
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The teddy bear Patricia Kaas sent to support her mother's convalescence today accompanies her everywhere as a mascot.
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In 1990, Patricia Kaas began her first world tour, which lasted 16 months in total.
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Patricia Kaas sang in front of about 750,000 fans in over 196 concerts in 12 countries.
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Patricia Kaas gave other successful concerts in New York and Washington DC in the USA At the end of the tour, Mademoiselle chante.
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Patricia Kaas received the Goldene Europa, one of the biggest German music awards.
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Prieur and Walter contributed significantly to the singer's success, in return for which Patricia Kaas referred to them as her "family".
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In 1991, Patricia Kaas received two further awards, the World Music Award and a Bambi.
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In Switzerland, Patricia Kaas reached 2nd place in the album charts, and 1st in France.
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Patricia Kaas was the first western singer to appear in Hanoi, Vietnam, after the Vietnam War, and she toured in Cambodia, Japan, Korea and Thailand.
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In December 1998 Patricia Kaas sang with the tenors Placido Domingo and Alejandro Fernandez in the Guildhall of Vienna, Austria.
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In 1999 Le mot de passe was produced by Pascal Obispo, on which Patricia Kaas was accompanied by an orchestra on several tracks.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman again contributed to the making of the studio album, among others with 2 songs Une fille de 'l'Est in which Patricia Kaas praised her East French heritage, and Les chansons commencent.
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In September 1999, Patricia Kaas came third in Marianne, a poll for the national symbol of France, behind supermodels Laetitia Casta and Estelle Hallyday.
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In October 2000, Patricia Kaas received the Adenauer-de Gaulle Prize in Berlin.
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Patricia Kaas was again accompanied by a large orchestra, on this occasion the Luxembourg Philharmonic.
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In 2000, Patricia Kaas decided to move permanently to Zurich in Switzerland.
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Patricia Kaas sang On pourrait as a duet with the Swiss singer Stephan Eicher.
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Until the end of 2005, Patricia Kaas was on what was by then her seventh world tour.
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The album contains a bonus track, Herz eines Kampfers, which Patricia Kaas had worked on with Peter Plate of German pop band Rosenstolz.
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In February 2008, Patricia Kaas released the song Ne pozvonish' with the Russian rock group Uma2rman, which was a big hit in Russia.
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Patricia Kaas is claimed to be the first international artist to visit 28 Russian cities.
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On 28 January 2009, it was confirmed that Patricia Kaas would represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.
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Patricia Kaas's fans took part in an online poll in several countries, where they selected their favourite song from her Kabaret album.
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In 1993, Patricia Kaas was offered a role in the Claude Berri film Germinal, but at the time she was working on her third album Je te dis vous.
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In 1994, Patricia Kaas was offered the main role in the film Falling in Love Again by the American director Stanley Donen.
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Patricia Kaas needed no better model than the German-American singer and actress Marlene Dietrich, whose song Lili Marleen she had often sung as a child.
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Patricia Kaas's earlier hit, Il me dit que suis belle, from the 1993 album Je te dis vous, was used by Bertrand Tavernier in his film L'appat.
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Patricia Kaas had her acting debut in 2001, playing the jazz singer Jane beside Jeremy Irons in Claude Lelouch's And now.
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Patricia Kaas played the role of a woman wounded by life for the television production "Assassinee", by Thierry Binisti, that aired May 2012.
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Patricia Kaas was the companion of the cook Yannick Alleno.