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Personal Info

Birth date

1966-12-05 (58 Years)

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Forbach, Moselle, France

Also known as

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Patricia Kaas

Biography

Patricia Noëlle Kaas (born 5 December 1966) is a French singer and actress. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson.

Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album Mademoiselle chante..., Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide. She had her greatest success in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, and South Korea with her third album Je te dis vous. In 2002, Kaas made her film debut in And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen with Jeremy Irons. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow and finished in eighth place.

Patricia Kaas, the youngest of her family, was born on 5 December 1966 in Forbach, Lorraine, France, near the German border. Her father, Joseph Kaas, a miner, was a French Germanophone (Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by France in 1918) and her mother, Irmgard, was a German from Saar. Kaas grew up in Stiring-Wendel, between Forbach and Saarbrücken on the French side of the border. Until the age of six, she spoke only Lorraine Franconian. Her mother encouraged Kaas, then a young girl, to become a singer. At the age of only eight Kaas was already singing songs by Sylvie Vartan, Dalida, Claude François 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. Her first real success came when she received first place at a pop song contest.

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 Saarbrücken club Rumpelkammer. Kaas took the name Pady Pax — after Pax Majorettes, a brass band from Stiring-Wendel, of which she and her sister Carine were members — and for seven years appeared with the band, Dob's Lady Killers. At 16, she took a placement with a model agency in Metz. Her first attempts to break into the music business failed; a producer rejected her on the ground that the world did not need a second Mireille Mathieu. Kaas's producer at this time was the architect Bernard Schwartz.

In 1985, at 19 years old, Kaas was sponsored by French actor Gérard Depardieu. Schwartz had seen her singing at the Rumpelkammer in Saarbrücken and introduced her to the songwriter François Bernheim. Bernheim worked with her and convinced Depardieu to produce her music.

Depardieu produced Kaas's first single Jalouse (Eng: Jealous), written by Bernheim and Depardieu's wife, Elisabeth. The single was published by EMI, but was a flop. Nonetheless, her encounter with Depardieu was one of the most important events at the beginning of Kaas's artistic career.

Through Jalouse and Bernheim, the French songwriter Didier Barbelivien became aware of Kaas. His song Mademoiselle chante le blues (Eng: Lady sings the blues) was the singer's first big hit. The single was published in 1987 by Polydor, and reached 7th place in the French singles chart. The next year, Kaas's second single D'Allemagne (Eng: From Germany) was recorded, written by Barbelivien and Bernheim. ...

Source: Article "Patricia Kaas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

Acting

2025Smurfs as Mama Poot (voix)

2022Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)

2021Les 20 chansons de Jean-Jacques Goldman préférées des Français as Self

2019Johnny Hallyday : Olympia 2000 - Les Duos as Self

2019Johnny Hallyday - Un soir à l'Olympia as Self (archive footage)

2017Patricia Kaas: 3sat Festival 2017 as Self

2016Quotidien (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

2016Amanda (1 Episode) as Self

2014Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui as Unknown

2014Patricia Kaas: Kaas chante Piaf à l'Olympia as Self

2014Patricia Kaas - Live at Baloise Session 2013 as Self

2013Piaf, Hymnes à la Môme au Beacon Theatre, New York as Self

2012Les Enfants de la Pop 80's as Self (archive footage)

2012Murdered as Kathy

2010Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs as Unknown

2010La folie des années 90 as Self

2009Patricia Kaas - Kabaret Tour as Self

2008Markus Lanz (1 Episode) as Self

2005Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés as Unknown

2005Patricia Kaas - Toute la Musique as Self

2005Eine große Nachtmusik (1 Episode) as Self

2004La chanson de l'année (1 Episode) as Self

2004Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel (1 Episode) as Self

2002And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... as Jane Lester

2002Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau as Unknown

2002L'Invité (1 Episode) as Self

2001Star Academy (5 Episodes) as Self

2001Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés as Unknown

2001Stars à domicile (1 Episode) as Self

2001Aeschbacher (1 Episode) as Self

2000Menschen der Woche (1 Episode) as Self

20003satfestival (1 Episode) as Self

2000Patricia Kaas: Ce Sera Nous as Self

2000Patricia Kaas: Rendez-vous as Self

2000Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000 as Unknown

1999Volle Kanne (1 Episode) as Self

1999Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 as Unknown

1998Christmas In Vienna VI as Self

1998Vivement dimanche (8 Episodes) as Self

1998Vivement dimanche prochain (1 Episode) as Self

1998Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show (1 Episode) as Self

1998Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur as Unknown

1998The Johannes B. Kerner Show (1 Episode) as Self

1997Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés as Unknown

1996Zimmer frei! (1 Episode) as Self

1995Die Harald Schmidt Show (3 Episodes) as Self

1995Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique as Unknown

1994alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio (1 Episode) as Self

1993Patricia Kaas - Tour De Charme as Self

1993Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania as Unknown

1992Pavarotti & Friends as Self

1992Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra as Unknown

1991DAS! (2 Episodes) as Self

1991Patricia Kaas - Carnets de scène as Self

1990Stars 90 (5 Episodes) as Self

1989Geld oder Liebe (2 Episodes) as Self

1988Flitterabend (2 Episodes) as Self - Singer

1987Téléthon (1 Episode) as Self

1987Collaricocoshow (1 Episode) as Self

1987Le monde est à vous (10 Episodes) as Self

1987Sacrée soirée (13 Episodes) as Self

1987Matin Bonheur (1 Episode) as Self

1986ZDF-Fernsehgarten (2 Episodes) as Self

1985Victoires de la musique (6 Episodes) as Self

1984La Chance aux chansons (1 Episode) as Self

1982Champs-Elysées (7 Episodes) as Self

1980Verstehen Sie Spaß? (1 Episode) as Self

1977Fan School (1 Episode) as Self

1976Kölner Treff (2 Episodes) as Self

19743 nach 9 (1 Episode) as Self

1965aspekte (1 Episode) as Self

1956Eurovision Song Contest (2 Episodes) as Self - Contestant

1948Bambi-Verleihung (1 Episode) as Self