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Eileen

Born in New York on May 16, 1941, Eileen is the daughter of American publisher Michael Goldsen, founder of Criterion Music. After studying linguistics at the University of Los Angeles, the polyglot young woman, who was fluent in French, settled in Paris in 1964 and was noticed by Lucien Morisse's Disc'AZ label, for whom she recorded adaptations of American songs. Her first EP, Prends Ta Guitare, released in 1964, includes original compositions of her own and an adaptation by Woody Guthrie. In a country-folk style mixed with yé-yé, Eileen wrote "Le Skip" for the Une Grenouille Dan...