Early life and relationships
In 1959, Woollacott was a 20-year-old dancer at the Monte-Carlo Sporting on the Côte d'Azur, when she met singer and dancer Claude "Cloclo" François, whom she married the following year. They subsequently moved to Paris together.[1]
In 1962, while working as a dancer at the Olympia music hall in Paris, Woollacott met singer and pianist Gilbert Bécaud, with whom she had an affair, and for whom she ultimately left François. The couple later had a daughter, Jennifer Bécaud.[1] Woollacott's divorce from François wasn't finalized until 1967.[1]
Artistic career
After debuting as a dancer, Woollacott began a career as a singer in 1969. She released the single "Je T'aime... Normal" / "Super-Gangsters", written by Gérard Rinaldi, with her third husband, actor Jean Sarrus, under the name Jean & Janet.[2] She went on to sing independently, using the mononym Janet, and released the single "Bénie Soit La Pluie" / "Le Chocolat" in 1972.[3] The latter was co-written by Dominique Perrier, who later became Woollacott's fourth husband.[1] In 1985, the two published the song "Mama", from the soundtrack to the film Adieu Blaireau.[4]
From 1994, Woollacott contributed to Perrier's group Stone Age, singing on a number of their songs. In 2010, Perrier formed the Dominique Perrier Project as a tribute to Roger Rizzitelli, his former collaborator in the electronic group Space Art. Woollacott provided vocals on several tracks of the album Space Art Tribute, released in 2012, one year after her death.[5]
In 1998, twenty years after the death of her first husband, Woollacott wrote Claude François: les années oubliées, in his memory.[6]