Stella Vander

Born Stella Zelcer in Paris on December 12, 1950, the singer made a name for herself with a series of pop records in the 1960s, before marrying Christian Vander and joining the group Magma. Her uncle, Maurice Chorenslup, orchestrated all her records, starting with the first for the Vogue label, the hit EP Pourquoi Pas Moi, which made Stella a yé-yé idol from 1963 onwards. After two more, the singer with the "garçonne" haircut signed with RCA Victor in 1965 and recorded "J'achète des disques américains", a humorous, ironic song set to rock music inspired by British bands. In 1966, the EP featuring "Cauchemar autoprotestateur", "Beatnicks d'occasion" and "Si vous connaissez quelque chose de pire qu'un vampire...", garnished with psychedelic collages, showed her to be more biting than ever, before "Le Folklore auvergnat " and "Pauvre Figaro " again mocking beatniks, all collected in the only album of this period, released in 1967. After "Trempe tes pieds dans le gange", which concluded this sequence in 1968, the singer married Christian Vander, drummer and founder of the group Magma, which she joined in 1973, collaborating with Offering and singing backing vocals with Atoll, Jacques Higelin, France Gall, Gilbert Bécaud, Odeurs, Michel Jonasz, Renaud, Lydia Domancich and Patrick Gauthier. In 1991, Stella Vander recorded the poetic album D'Épreuves d'Amour, produced by her husband and released on Seventh Records, the label she founded in 1986 and continues to manage for Magma. Her cover of the standard "Nature Boy" is used in the Larrieu brothers' film Peindre ou faire l'amour (2005). Recorded live the same year, the double CD of the Passage du Nord-Ouest concert, featuring her husband and their daughter Julie Vander, was not released until 2011. Meanwhile, the songbook Le Coeur Allant Vers (2004) was released on her new label Ex-Tension Records.

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