Best known for her 1986 hit "Ève lève-toi", Julie Pietri has continued a career
that began a few years earlier. Born in Douera, then in French Algeria, on May
1, 1955, Nicole Juliette Pietri arrived in France with her family at the age of
seven, and grew up in the Rouen suburbs, then in Morocco and the Paris region.
Introduced to music by her older brother, she sang in a high school band called
Julie + Transit, and in 1975 recorded her first song, "On s'est laissés faire",
based on John Denver's "Annie's Song ". The following year, she joined the Bande
à Basile, which enjoyed nat...