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She had some success in the French pop charts over the next few years with songs including her version of "Baby Love", the girl group influenced "J'ai raté mon bac", the more downbeat "Ticket de quai", and "Je chante et je danse" which featured a jazzy Hammond organ arrangement.

Annie Philippe is a French pop singer. Her style was often compared to France Gall. Writer Richie Unterberger says that her records had "that same consciously over-cute girlish delivery, bouncy tunes, and (perhaps inadvertently) eclectic production, in which Spectorian arrangements, American girl-group influences, smooth mainstream French pop orchestrations, melancholy ballads, groovy jazzy organs, bad Dixielandesque show tunes, and more all swam in the same stream... [but] her material was not quite as interesting..".

After leaving school she worked in a nightclub near the Champs-Élysées, where she met composer and arranger Paul Mauriat, who encouraged her singing career and helped her win a contract with the Rivièra label.

A compilation of her recordings, L'Integrale Sixties, was issued on CD in 1999. She later performed as part of the touring show Âge tendre, la tournée des idoles, featuring performers from the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1968, she teamed up with singer Claude François for a series of duets, and she toured with Jacques Dutronc before taking a break from the music in 1969. She attempted a comeback in the late 1970s with a Dolly Parton song.

In the 1970s, she was little known, except for her appearance in the January 1972 issue of Lui magazine, where she posed completely nude .

In 2013, a photo of the singer in her early days was chosen to adorn the cover of the book Yé-Yé girls of '60s French Pop published by journalist Jean-Michel Deluxe.

Following an audition where she sang songs by Leny Escudero, Marie Laforêt and France Gall, Paul Mauriat advisied her to take singing lessons.

She was also the wife of the criminal René Juillet (executed by the underworld in 1980), as well as the cyclist and sports director Cyrille Guimard.

In her memoirs, Anne Philippe describes a rather unflattering world of entertainment, from which she criticizes, not without some bitterness, certain glories of the time, Sheila , Sylvie Vartan , Michel Berger and Claude François. Because of her marriage to a crook, female celebrities avoided the one they called "the singer of the milieu" . Added to her sulphurous reputation are her frankness and her very unaustere outfits.

Annie Philippe had her moment of glory in the second half of the 1960s, alongside the yéyé singers Sheila , Sylvie Vartan , Françoise Hardy and France Gall .

Married to Izi Spieghel, a gangster and owner of the Twenty One nightclub, she managed to escape his influence for a few months in 1967 for an affair with Claude François, who, however, did nothing to keep her when her husband came to get her. She would hold a grudge against the singer.

In the spring of 1988, Jean-Paul Belmondo called on her to play alongside him in the film Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté by Claude Lelouch.

As she dreamed of becoming a dancer, her father enrolled her in dance classes given by the choreographer Louis Orlandi at the Théâtre du Châtelet . A gifted student, she had the opportunity to be a replacement little rat (= a young student from the Paris Opera dance school who appears in the shows) in the corps de ballet.

In 2001 , Annie Philippe found Frank Alamo on Pascal Sevran 's set during the show celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of La Chance aux Chansons. Following this television show, Frank Alamo, who had also stopped singing, decided to return to the stage and asked Annie to perform the opening act for his shows. In 2006 and 2007, Annie and Frank performed at galas throughout France. The Âge tendre and Têtes de bois tour allowed them to meet their audience again.