She was born on December 26, 1929 in Belgium to Polish-Jewish parents. Started life hiding from the Nazis in occupied wartime France and later invented the format for the modern-day "discothèque" (French for Nightclubs). Setting place in 1953 the elements of modern day nightclubs, mainly by replacing the use of jukebox by coupled turntables as done for the first time in Paris' Whisky a GoGo dance club that she managed at age 24 in 1953; the club had been originally started in 1947.

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