Petula Clark is an English girl who sings French songs--and has made a hit in Quebec.
THERE is nothing unusual about a Parisian singing star visiting Quebec and feeling very much at home. Particularly as far as the language situation is concerned. But when the French singer is really an English girl who, three years ago, could not speak a word of French - well, that's a different matter.
For Petula Clark, the girl whose long play records, Tete A Tete and Rendez Vous, made her one of Paris' top recording artists and a best-seller in North America as well, performing in Quebec was no different from performing back home - in France.
For three days, she worked in a Quebec studio taping a television show sponsored by General Motors for showing on Frencb-language private stations - and she spoke French to other performers and to the directors and technicians as though it were her native language.
Pretty good for an English girl? Oh, very good, says Petula, who adds that the people back home in Epsom, England, are proud of the success she has made for herself in France.