Singer Nicole Croisille died, her agent revealed on June 4, 2025. She was 88 years old. Here are all its secrets.
Farewell Nicole Croisille … The singer, who died at 88, was one of the great voices of French song with hits like A woman with you,, Phone me And Tell me about him. She leaves behind a busy life.
What died Nicole Croisille?
As Nicole Croisille’s agent revealed to France Télévisions revealed, the singer died at 88, in Paris, “Following a long illness (…) Until the end, she fought with great strength and courage. “Out of respect for the star, the latter did not specify what disease exactly she suffered in intimacy.
In 2023, the magazine France Sunday revealed that Nicole Croisille suffered from cancer and lost her hair because heavy treatment of chemotherapy. At the time, it would have been admitted to an establishment in Western Paris.
Nicole Croisille and euthanasia: her sliced opinion
Questioned in 2023, on the waves of RTL, on the thorny question of the legalization of euthanasia in France, Nicole Croisille had declared to be for this project. “”I am not targeting 100 years (…) as soon as I am no longer independent, I think I would disappear quickly (…) We will soon have the choice if the deputies do their job“, She said then. Since then, in this month of May 2025, the deputies approved the creation of a right to help to die …
Nicole Croisille was born in 1936 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She is the daughter of a father’s father director of tourism agency and a pianist mother. From childhood, the little girl has the heart of dance. Endowed with a real artist’s soul, she puts on her slippers and became a dancer at the Paris Opera from the age of eight. But her father refuses that she will present herself in the competition of little rats. So, she abandons her dream of shining on stage and resumes the course of a more normal life, taking lessons from dactylography. But her hopes are not completely extinct, since Nicole Croisille follows in parallel the classes of the Comédie-Française (just that) and integrates the ballet.
Nicole Croisille was mime and sang in Broadway
Definitely endowed with many talents, the artist follows Marcel Marceau’s lessons and becomes mime. From the 1960s, this jazz fertile singing in English in American clubs. Then, in France, she dances for the review of Joséphine Baker, please! Then she returns to New York and performs on the prestigious Broadway scene.
Nicole Croisille is the source of “Chabadabada, Chabadabada …”
Nicole Croisille was the interior voice of Anouck Aimée, in A man, a woman. It was she who interpreted the iconic song by Claude Lelouch’s film. “”We were in the studio, preparing the music (…) Pierre Barouh had not yet written the text (…) As we were both very keen on Brazilian music, we made onomatopoeia“Said Nicole Croisille on TV5monde. Hearing the famous “Dabadabada” (and not “Chabadabada”, specifies the actress), Claude Lelouch then demanded that these onomatopoeia remain the lyrics of music.
Nicole Croisille was operated on for voice problems
Endowed with a powerful voice and often compared to Nicoletta, Nicole Croisille had vocal cords operated in 1978, after a “vocal overwork“. “I had started to be the vocal cords in New York in 1965 where I sang in a show without a microphone. The microphone was in the ramp so it was necessary to hit, while dancing at the same time. And there I started to create a polyp on the vocal cords. Ten years later that caught up with me when the success has happened (…) The polyp turned into nodules and one day I spit blood so I worried “, had she told Purecharts. After her operation, Nicole Croisille had to undergo a rather complicated convales, during which she did not have the opportunity to give voice.
Nicole Croisille was the victim of a flight at the door
In January 2019, Nicole Croisille had a rather traumatic experience. While leaving the Renaissance theater in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, around 12:45 am, she took her car, put her bags on the passenger seat and put herself behind the wheel. But suddenly, a man opened the door of the vehicle and stole his handbag, where his identity papers and bank cards were. Fortunately, the man was able to quickly be arrested, thanks to the singer who was able to make a precise description to the police.
Nicole Croisille is a hidden lazy
Nicole Croisille may be a versatile artist with prolific career, she discovered, during the first confinement, that she had a real tendency to laziness. “”I discovered that my true nature is to be lazy. If everyone has the impression that I am a hyperactive, it is to counter that. Since my youngest years, I have been fighting against my true nature. I was finally able to discover myself, I took the time“She said at the microphone of Europe 1.
Nicole Croisille and her private life
Very discreet about her private life, Nicole Croisille rarely confided in her romantic situation. She just said in Paris Match, in 2017: “”I had men in my life, but I now prefer to be alone. And have real friends I can count on. “
She leaves no husbands behind her but, as RTL reports, Nicole Croisille had a only daughter named Stéphanie.
End of career
Nicole Croisille wanted to practice her job as long as possible. “”I always train like a dancer, it helps to better support the weight of years. I hear continuing to sing as long as health allows me. When I feel it to bend, I will stop singing, a question of respect for myself and for the public. However, I will not leave the scene. I intend to continue to remain active as an actress“She said in The Montreal Journal in 2013.
In 2020, Nicole Croisille also played at the Michodière Theater alongside Michel Sardou in Do not listen, ladies! by Sacha Guitry. Then she had the draft show The Croisille has fun.
