Barbara (singer)
Barbara ( born June 9, 1930 in Paris as Monique Andrée Serf, † November 24, 1997 in Neuilly -sur- Seine) was a French chanson singer and composer.
Life
Monique Serf was born as the second of four children of a Jewish family in Paris. Her father was Alsatian, her mother came from Odessa. When she was 10 years old, she fled with her family from occupied part of France by Germany. After several intermediate stations they came into the Southeast French country town of Saint -Marcellin ( Isère ) in July 1943. There they had to hide to 1944 before accessing the collaborationist with Nazi Germany Vichy regime. After the liberation she experienced in a boarding house in Le Vésinet ( Yvelines ) near Paris, she heard a music teacher in the neighborhood singing and decided to promote their talent. She received singing and piano lessons. In 1947 she enrolled at the Paris Conservatory and studied classical music at the tenor Gabriel Paulet.
Her first musical steps they undertook in the late 1940s at the cabaret La Fontaine des Quatre Saisons in Paris. From 1950 to 1952 she lived in Brussels, where she frequented artistic circles and in front of friends sang songs of Édith Piaf, Juliette Greco and Germaine Montero. On her return to Paris she met Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens later also know, with the songs she performed. But the way they have already written their own material they processed in their program. In 1957 she participated in the Brussels a first single.
It was not until the early 1960s came her career in full swing. The big breakthrough came in 1965 with the album Barbara chante Barbara.
Beginning in July 1964 came Barbara as part of a guest performance in the Young Theater Göttingen. Your impressions made while there they used in the Chanson Göttingen, a contribution to the international understanding. The piece was very popular in France and so made a significant contribution to the Franco-German understanding and in particular to the fame of the university town of Göttingen in France. 2003 quoted the then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from the text of this song in his speech on the 40th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty at a joint meeting of the German Bundestag and the French National Assembly in the Palace of Versailles.
1967 Barbara published an album with German versions of some of their songs (Barbara sings Barbara ). Several German versions of their songs are by Walter Brandin ago. In the 1970s, Barbara also dabbled as an actress, but remained its a great success failed. Their last studio album (Barbara ), she published in 1996. In her last years, Barbara continued intensively for the fight against AIDS.
Honors and Awards
2001 paid tribute to the French post office with the issuance of a postage stamp per € 0.46, the life performance of the French singer.
The city of Göttingen honored the chanteuse several times: On April 24, 1988 Barbara was awarded an honorary medal of the city of Göttingen and at the house Geismar Landstraße 19, the former venue of the Young Theatre, a memorial plaque was unveiled on 22 November 2002. It was also inaugurated on the same day the Barbara Road in the district of Göttingen offers Geismar to remember the singer.
Known Chansons possibly Conclusion
- Ma plus belle histoire d' amour
- Göttingen ( 1964)
- La Solitude
- Nantes
- L' Aigle noir
- Une petite cantate
- Marienbad ( 1973)
- Drouot
- Parce que je t'aime
- Dis, quand reviendras -tu?
- Pierre
- Si la photo est bonne
- La dame brune duet with Georges Moustaki
- À mourir pour mourir
- La solitude
Discography (excerpt)
- Barbara à l' Ecluse (1959 ) - Live album, 2001 re-released on the CD La chanteuse de minuit.
- Barbara chante Barbara (1965 )
- Barbara sings Barbara (1967 )
- Ma plus belle histoire d' amour (1967 )
- Le Soleil Noir (1968 )
- Madame (1970 )
- L' Aigle noir (1970 )
- La Fleur d' amour (1972 )
- Incestueuses Amours (1972 )
- La Louve (1973 )
- Seule (1981 )
- Barbara (1996 )
- Femme piano (1997) - Best- Of- Album (2 CDs)
Filmography
- Le Toubib, médecin you transition (1955 )
- Franz ( 1971)
- L' Oiseau Rare (1973 )
- Je suis né à Venise (1977 )