# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/serge-gainsbourg
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:25.739Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/serge-gainsbourg"
name: "Serge Gainsbourg"
slug: "serge-gainsbourg"
description: "He wrote songs that made France argue with itself — provocative, sexual, bizarre wordplay set to whatever genre caught his ear that year. Over 550 tracks, more than a thousand covers, and a second heart attack that turned a divisive pop figure into a secular saint."
tagline: "French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928–1991)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1928-04-02"
deathDate: "1991-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  118
  category: null
totalFollowers: 128000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Lucien Ginsburg on 2 April 1928, Gainsbourg started in jazz and chanson before the yé-yé wave caught him. His output wandered through rock, reggae, funk, zouk, electronica — whatever served the lyric, which leaned on puns, satire, and sex in ways that split French opinion down the middle. "Je t'aime... moi non plus" charted in the UK; "Bonnie and Clyde" did the same in Belgium. He wrote over 550 songs before dying of a second heart attack on 2 March 1991. The controversy that shadowed him alive turned to adoration after, and now he holds legendary status at home and a cult following elsewhere.