Posted on 27/02/08
An icon onstage: Does she actually need to sing?
JANE BIRKINAt the Music Hallin Toronto on MondayTo North Americans, Jane Birkin - born in England but "married to France" - may be more an icon of fashion than of music. Despite her 16 albums and hits around the world, her voice has always been a fragile, talk-singing compromise. But she's also the namesake of the classic Hermès bag, the definitive gamine silhouette of late-1960s Paris, the possessor of the world's most envied brunette bangs and the actress who made her debut in the ultimate Swinging London movie (Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up) at the age of 19 in 1966.
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