In 1981, singer Claire d'Asta helped rediscover Serge Gainsbourg's song "La Chanson de Prévert". Born in Marseille on December 16, 1953, she studied singing at the Conservatoire from the age of thirteen, taking lessons from soprano Christiane Castelli. After recording her first single for Philips in 1972, "C'est bon la vie, la vie est belle", the singer-songwriter went on to support Christian Delagrange on tour, composing several songs for him. In 1981, she recorded a forgotten Serge Gainsbourg song, "La Chanson de Gainsbourg", which went against the trend of turning Gainsbourg into "Gainsbarre". This success was followed by the album Bleu Claire (1982), written and produced by Michel Mallory with musicians such as Claude Engel, Tim Renwick, Geoff Whitehorn and Duncan Mackay, from which the track "L'Amour en plus" is taken. The following year, Claire d'Asta took part in the musical tale Abracadabra, in which she sang the song "La Planète Amour", the French version of Abba's "Lay All Your Love for Me". She also covered Georges Brassens' "Le Petit cheval " in 1983, and followed this up with two more singles, "Une nuit de ta vie" (1984) and "Coup de cœur " (1986), both by Mallory. In 1994, she sang "Cuore Addolorato" in her Italian soprano tessitura, the theme of Jean-Claude Brisseau's film L'Ange noir (1994), starring Sylvie Vartan, with music composed by her husband Jean Musy.