Parisian music artist, France Gall has been honoured by Google Doodle today in celebration of her 76 birthday, But who is the French music icon and what did she do?
Born in Budapest and raised in Canada, Sophie Lukacs is a Kora player, singer-songwriter and one of the only women in the world to play the 21-string Mandinka instrument. She has forged a distinctive style, drawing on her classical violin training, her seven years of study in Mali with kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté and her roots in Hungarian Jewish folk music.