Dani was born in
Castres. In 1966 she was contracted to
Pathé-Marconi and released her first
single "Garçon manqué". In 1968 "Papa vient d'épouser la bonne" sold a million copies and was a major hit. Dani was meant to have been
France's
Eurovision Song Contest 1974 entry with the song "La Vie à 25 ans", but
President Georges Pompidou died in the week of the competition, so she never entered Eurovision properly. On the cinema screen, she played the script-girl Liliane in
François Truffaut's
Day for Night and in the last
Antoine Doinel-adventure
Love on the Run a short-time-affair of Antoine, Christine's friend Liliane. Truffaut who made her famous with one role in two movies: she is Liliane in
Day for Night. The fickle girlfriend of actor Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) recruited as a script trainee who is pinching for the English stuntman. In 1978, this Liliane became the friend of Christine Doinel alias
Claude Jade in the final film of the
Doinel cyclus. Truffaut used Liliane's flashbacks for
Love on the Run. Here Liliane becomes the best friend of Christine (Claude Jade). And later, she has an affair with her husband Antoine, again Jean-Pierre Léaud. Thanks to the installation of new and old scenes, Claude Jade also mounted in the flashbacks of
Day for Night, it seems Dani was already part of the Doinel Cycle. She died in
Tours on 18 July 2022, aged 77. == Discography ==