Jeanne-Marie Sens began recording in the early 1970s, including adopting the Giani Esposito song Les Clowns in 1972, released by the Warner label the following year.
[citation needed] In 1973, her protest song En plein cœur, in which her lyrics are set to music by Jean-Pierre Pouret, achieved success and notoriety.
The following year brought her another hit with the prescient and sad portrait of a child cooped up in the city: L’Enfant du 92e, for which she co-wrote the lyrics with Lowery, set to the music of Belgian singer-interpreter Pierre Rapsat.
Jeanne-Marie Sens gives the impression that she prefers to live in a world of imagination and fantasy, which is more beautiful than reality, and the many records she aimed at a child audience tend to confirm this.
In 1981, she signed a plea for acceptance of homosexuality, Il a la tête d’un poète, and she incorporated the petition created that year by Jean-Pierre Castelain for the coming presidential elections, Je donnerai ma voix with a text by Maxime Piolot.