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Vanessa Paradis was discovered on the TV show L'École des fans. She recorded her first single La Magie des surprises-parties in 1985. Although it was not a hit, it paved the way for the song with which she would become internationally famous - Joe le taxi in 1987, while she was still only 14 years old.
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Vanessa Paradis was discovered on the TV show L'École des fans. She recorded her first single La Magie des surprises-parties in 1985. Although it was not a hit, it paved the way for the song with which she would become internationally famous - Joe le taxi in 1987, while she was still only 14 years old.
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Vanessa Paradis may not be well known throughout North America -- except in French-speaking Quebec. In France, she was considered the equivalent of Shania Twain to the US, without the country music overtones. Now she is better known as Johnny Depp's girlfriend and mother of his child, putting her successful musical career on hold.
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Since 1998, Paradis has been in a relationship with American actor Johnny Depp. Contrary to popular opinion, the couple are not wed. They have a daughter, Lily-Rose Melody Depp (born May 27, 1999), and a son, John Christopher "Jack" Depp III (born April 9, 2002). Paradis caught Depp's eye in a hotel lobby in Paris while he was there shooting the film The Ninth Gate.
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They are distant to the world of fame and protective of their privacy. They divide their time between houses in the Hollywood Hills and their farm in the South of France, and also own apartments in Paris and Manhattan. Paradis's 2000 album Bliss, another French chart topper, was dedicated to Depp and their daughter.
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Paradis began work on a new album sung in English, in which she had become fluent. Written and produced by Kravitz, the album, titled simply Vanessa Paradis, topped the French chart and briefly made the UK listings (#45). One of the singles taken from it was Be My Baby, which made #5 in France and gave her her other Top 10 UK hit (#6). She has since appeared in several films, most famously 1999's La fille sur le pont, a black and white romance co-starring Daniel Auteuil, and 2004's Mon Ange.
