Claude Nougaro

Claude Nougaro ( born September 9, 1929 in Toulouse, †, 4 March 2004 ) was a jazz singer and poet from France, but also a painter and draftsman.

Life

As the son of an opera singer and an Italian piano teacher, he grew up with his grandparents in Toulouse where he was enthusiastic about the radio for Glenn Miller, Édith Piaf and Louis Armstrong. In 1947 he fell through in high school and started out as a journalist in Paris (among others for Le Journal des Curistes in Vichy and L' Echo d' Alger ). At the same time he wrote songs for Marcel Amont (Le Barbier de Belleville, Le balayeur du roi ) and Philippe Clay (Joseph, La Sentinelle ). He met Georges Brassens, which his friend and mentor, and wrote poetry.

In 1949 he made ​​the military service in the Foreign Legion in Rabat ( Morocco). He sent texts to Marguerite Monnot, composer of the Édith Piaf, which then set to music ( Méphisto, Le Sentier de la guerre ). He also wrote for Odette Laure. To earn his living, he joined in 1955 as a singer of his own songs in the Parisian cabaret Le Lapin Agile in Montmartre. There he met his first wife, Sylvie, know. In 1959, his first album out with "Il y avait une ville ". This brought not the success with the masses. However, he was already somewhat known, because it occurred at that time in the concerts of Dalida.

1962, daughter Cécile to the world. In the same year the plate with Une Petite Fille, 1963 Cécile ma fille appeared. These songs were soon popular with a large audience.

A car accident paralyzed him in 1963 for several months. The following year he traveled to Brazil. In Paris, he appeared on stages of rank, the Olympia, the Palais and the Théâtre de la Ville. His friend Jacques Audiberti who died in 1965, he dedicated the Chanson Chanson pour le maçon.

The Maire Volte 1968 inspired him to a stormy Paris Mai, a plea for life, which, however, was censored from the radio, even though he was a fierce opponent of the policy. (Where Nougaro has also written quite socially critical lyrics. ) In the same year he recorded his first live album in Olympia: Une soirée avec Claude Nougaro.

His career took many successes (le jazz et la java, Tu verras, Ile de Ré, Armstrong, Toulouse, Petit Taureau ). But In 1984, his record company his contract. Nougaro broke to New York to be inspired there, wrote and produced the album himself there Nougayork, which was a sensational success. He was awarded the 1988 Victoires de la Musique award for best artist with the best record and published in the following years 1993 to 1997, three more albums.

As of 1995, his health became worse after he had undergone heart surgery. However, he stepped back from 1998 to 2004 at concerts and festivals, and also contributed to a charity recording in favor of AIDS patients at Children. After several operations, he died in March 2004 at 74 years of complications from cancer.

His music inspired by the American jazz, which he recorded many songs in his repertoire (Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong ), and on the Brazilian music (especially Al Jarreau and Baden Powell, Chico Buarque ).

Works (selection)

Discography

  • 2002: L' ivre de mots

Lectures

  • 2003: Fables de ma fontaine (Paris, Petit Journal Montparnasse)
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