Patachou

Patachou ( born June 10, 1918 in Paris as Henriette Ragon ) is a French singer and actress.

Biography

She grew up in Paris in the 1920s and began as a typist, then as a factory worker, shoe saleswoman and an antique dealer. In 1948, she took with her husband Jean Billou a restaurant with a cabaret in Montmartre. In this restaurant Pâte à choux with the name ( choux pastry ) they performed for the first time as a singer and got out of the Parisian journalists nicknamed Lady Patachou. In 1952, Georges Brassens made ​​his first appearance in this theater. Patachou was also the first to interpret the songs of Brassens.

In the period following the first recording of Patachou were taken. She toured in France and worldwide. From 1953 to the 1970s, they enjoyed great success at the Palladium in London, the Waldorf -Astoria and Carnegie Hall in New York and Montreal and Hong Kong. In America, she wore before texts in French and English. She had a total of 25 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show. Been much attention their performances in Japan and Sweden, where she was named an "ambassador of French chanson " for their commitment.

In the 1950s, it had some minor appearances in movies and then, after a long break from the 1980s numerous appearances in movies and especially in television productions. Your date last appearance was in 2006 at the age of 88 years in an episode of the TV series Les Bleus, premiers pas dans la police.

Since September 6, 1977 she is a Knight of the Legion of Honor and was appointed on January 1, 2009 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.