Marianne Faithfull

Singer and actress Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull is from England. With the publication of her number-one single "As Tears Go By" in the 1960s, she rose to fame and was one of the top female musicians in America during the British Invasion. On VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll," Faithfull is included. She was given the Women's World Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, and the French government appointed her a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.