“Juliette is her real first name, chosen not as a tribute to Shakespeare but because her rally driver father only drove Alfa Romeos” (The father was evidently a man of great taste) announces Juliette Desurmont’s first promotional biography with a touch of humor. She was only sixteen when she fled the provinces for Paris, where she became a model. Photos, magazines, catwalks, and advertisements followed. Juliette appeared in a famous Heineken commercial in which she played a waitress, as well as in the 1985 TV documentary, Mode in France. But after four years, she quit. “I stopped at 20, at a time when things were really going very well, my modeling career was really taking off. But I stopped because of the frustration of the profession. It’s a cliché, but we’re just instruments. Everyone around us brings a creative element, while we ourselves don’t really". "Afin d’assouvir son désir de créativité et de poursuivre un rêve qu’elle a depuis toute petite, Juliette va se lancer dans la chanson..." -- source: https://popmusicdeluxe.fr/2023/08/23/chanteuse-des-80s-juliette-desurmont/