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- Here’s a moment of French culture as we continue National French Week. You have probably never heard of Carole Fredericks. That’s OK, not many Americans have. Carole Fredericks grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, one of six children, and attended Springfield public schools. After graduating, she asked her brother, the Grammy-winning blues artist Taj Mahal, to bring her to California to be a backup singer. At the age of 20, while working as a waitress in a French restaurant, she was urged by customers to travel to France to perform there. Even though she didn’t speak French at all, she took the chance and flew to Paris. As luck would have it, she met the owner of that restaurant at the airport in Paris. He called friends, and she began singing professionally immediately. She sang with many famous musicians, including Elton John, Eric Clapton, and Celine Dion. The album she recorded with Celine Dion remains the best selling French language album of all time. For six years, she was one third of the trio “Fredericks Goldman Jones”. Eventually, she began writing and performing her own music, and toured internationally. At the time of her death in Senegal, at the age of 49, she was considered “music royalty” in the French-speaking world. She was active in supporting causes such as the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Jean-Jacques Goldman said of her:
“Carole was born once in the United States, the land of her parents, of her childhood, of her formation, of her musical culture. She was born a second time in France, the land of her artistic recognition, of her loves and friends, of her pleasures, of her home. Yet a third time she was born in Senegal, the land of her roots, of her heart, perhaps the place where she felt best, the land of her departure, as well.”
Here is Carole Fredericks singing Knock on Wood with Celine Dion - https://youtu.be/_vdOQ7efRXQ.