Patricia Carli

Real name Rosetta Ardito, Belgian-Italian singer Patricia Carli is best known for her yé-yé hit "Demain, tu te maries". Born in Taranto in Italy's Puglia region, she grew up in Belgium and came to music through Nicole Barclay, jazz singer and second wife of Eddie Barclay, who introduced her to composer and arranger Léo Missir, who fell under her spell and married her. Immediately signed to the Bel Air label, a Barclay subsidiary, Patricia Carli scored a hit in 1963 with the song "Demain, tu te maries (Arrête, arrête, ne me touche pas)", which reached No. 5 in the French and Belgian charts. The following year, in the midst of the yé-yé wave, the singer recorded Gigliola Cinquetti's classic "Non ho l'età" (Grand Prix at the Sanremo Festival), which she also adapted into French under the title "Je suis à toi" (No. 9 in Belgium). After a successful run at the Olympia, she released a number of other singles, including "Nous on s'aime" (No. 49 in France), before taking a break from performing to write songs for Mireille Mathieu ("Pardonne-moi ce caprice d'enfant"), David-Alexandre Winter ("Oh, Lady Mary"), Nicoletta, Gloria Lasso, Leny Escudero, Christian Delagrange, Romy, Dalida, Line Renaud, Tino Rossi and, above all, "La Tendresse" for Daniel Guichard in 1972. She returned in 1976 with the album Qu'en Avez-Vous Fait, and had a final success two years later with "L'Homme sur la plage " (No. 39). Other titles and an album, La Balladine (1982), followed in the 1980s. The compilations La Collection Sixties des EP's Français (1997) and Salut les Copains (2015) sum up her career as a singer.