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California, United States (1995 – present)

April March (real name Elinor Blake) is an singer from California. She was born on April 20, 1965 and sings in English and French. Her best known composition is an English language remake of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Laisse tomber les filles” released in 1998 as “Chick Habit”. The song appears during the opening credits of the 1999 film “But I’m A Cheerleader” and the end credits of Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 film “Death Proof”, the latter alongside her cover of the original song.

She has had one of the more interesting dual careers, as a cartoon animator (including a stint as a principal animator for the Ren & Stimpy show) and as an indie pop singer/songwriter, more popular in France than in Brooklyn, where she was raised, or in her current home of California.

As a child, Elinor became fascinated with France, and jumped at the opportunity to participate in an exchange program in France in junior high. Today, her albums tend to contain songs in both English and French, which draw heavily on themes and styles from French 1960s pop music.

Beginning in the early 1980s, she worked as an animator for Archie Comics and Pee Wee’s Playhouse; in 1986 we see her working on the Madonna feature Who’s That Girl, animating the star in the title sequence and the contemporaneous music video. Her first band, The Pussywillows, was formed in 1987, although their existence was interrupted for a year while April March attended the one-year Disney Character Animation program in California.
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  • xNamine

    it's impossible to listen to chick habit without remembering, "But I'm A Cheerleader" ;) [5]

    Thursday evening
  • PurplePostRock

    HANG UP THE CHICK HABIT, lol

    21 days ago
  • AThoS93

    it's impossible to listen to chick habit without remembering tarantino's death proof [14]

    last month
  • spunge666

    it's impossible to listen to chick habit without remembering, "But I'm A Cheerleader" ;) [4]

    last month
  • catsinspace

    partysanctg: you should listen to april march sings along with the makers :)

    March 2012
  • yapooos

    She's fucking awesome.

    March 2012
  • koneko-tom

    it's impossible to listen to chick habit without remembering, "But I'm A Cheerleader" ;) [3]

    February 2012
  • PartySanCTG

    Indie pop? Dang, and based on the cover of Chick Habit I thought her thing was recording Ramonesy, fast power pop covers of 1960s French songs. :(

    February 2012
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