Catherine Sauvage
Catherine Sauvage, born as Janine Saunier (* May 29, 1929 in Nancy, France; † 20 March 1998 in Bry -sur -Marne (Val -de- Marne) ), was a French chansonniere and actress.
Life
Janine Saunier, who was already impressed by the theater early, came in 1947 to Paris, where she took the stage name Sauvage after a former friend. She took drama lessons with Jean -Louis Barrault and began singing in cabarets such as the Rose Rouge, L' Ecluse, Quod Libet, Tabou, L' Arlequin and Trois Chansons Maillets. In La Huchette she learned in 1949 Leo Ferré know and was fascinated by his appearance. When they dedicated four years later Jacques Canetti in his Caberet Les Trois Baudets, she sang chansons Ferrés as Monsieur William, Les Amoureux du Havre, Paris canaille, Le piano du pauvre, L' Ile Saint- Louis, L' Homme and Le Guinche. With this presentation, she also celebrated successes in the Olympics in 1954 and received the Grand Prix du Disque.
Sauvants was particularly interested in the interpretation of difficult texts by writers. She had next to songs by Gilles Vigneault, Jean -Roger Caussimon, Félix Leclerc, Georges Dor, Serge Gainsbourg and Jean -Claude Darnal texts by Jacques Prevert, Charles Baudelaire, Bertolt Brecht, Colette, Alfred Jarry, Pierre Mac Orlan, Henri Michaux and Louis Aragon in their program. The latter said of her presentation of his poems: " And suddenly her voice, as if by a gift, receives all its full meaning. " Georges Brassens judged on their presentations: ". Catherine Sauvage does not sing, she bites "
After Sauvage in 1961 still receive a second Grand Prix du Disque, they occurred during the pop wave that France flooded the early 1960s, in the background and worked primarily as a stage actress before she celebrated in 1968 in Bobino a comeback. In 1992, she once again took on a plate in honor of Jacques Prévert, in July 1994, she had in La Rochelle their last appearance before she died of cancer two years later.