Viktor Lazlo

Born Sonia Dronier in 1960, Viktor Lazlo's first album, She (1985), which included the hits "Pleurer des rivières " and "Canoë rose ", attracted a host of talented songwriters: Boris Bergman, Alain Chamfort, Maxime Le Forestier, Bernard Lavilliers and Serge Gainsbourg ("Amour puissance six") all followed in her footsteps. The young mixed-race woman with the physique of a model went on to enjoy a dual career on the big and small screens(Soeur Thérèse.com, La Crim', Navarro...) and in song, with the themed albums Verso (1996), Loin de Paname (2002), Saga (2004) and Begin The Biguine (2007). After his novel La Femme qui pleure (The Woman Who Cried ), about the death of his partner Filip Nikolic, Viktor Lazlo set about recounting the life of Billie Holiday in a novelized book, on record and then on stage under the title My Name Is Billie Holiday in 2012.