Obituary: Tonia Bern-Campbell, singer who had turbulent relationship with speed king Donald Campbell
died June 14, 2021 TONIA Bern-Campbell, who has died aged 84 (there are suggestions she was actually 93), was a Belgian-born singer whose career was mentored by Maurice Chevalier. The French crooner’s mother was a cousin of Bern’s grandmother. Chevalier encouraged the teenager to enter a talent contest, at which one of the judges was Jacques Brel. Taking her under his wing, Brel trained her in a vocal style akin to his own. “He changed my songs from pretty to blatantly realistic,”...
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