Jacques Canetti

Jacques Canetti (actually: Nissim Jacques Canetti, * May 30, 1909 in Rousse, Bulgaria; † 7 June 1997, Suresnes, France) was a French music producer and theater director, and was one of the most important figures in French music of the 1950s and 1960s.

His older brother is the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, his younger brother, the physician Georges Canetti.

Life

Born in Bulgaria, the son of a Sephardic Jewish family grew Jacques Canetti in Vienna, Manchester. Zurich, Lausanne, Frankfurt on Main and Munich, before he with his mother and younger brother - 1926 moved to Paris - the father had died in 1912. Canetti studied at HEC, before he went to the record company Polydor in 1932. The newspaper advertisement, to which he applied later formed the title of his autobiography: "Young man wanted who loves music and German speaking ... "

Canetti, a great friend of jazz, organized for the magazine Hot Jazz tours, on which he brought for the first time stars like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway to France. In the second half of the 1930s, he became the artistic director of Radio Cité, where he established a number of successful transmission formats and presented, among others, the debuts of Édith Piaf and Charles Trenet. Since 1932, Canetti was naturalized Frenchman, from 1940 on he was officially only the name " Jacques Canetti ".

In 1942, Canetti went to North Africa into exile and founded in Algiers, the Théâtre des Trois Anes. After the Second World War, he returned to Paris and founded the Théâtre des Trois Baudets, in the 1947-1962 a multitude of budding sizes of French chanson occurred, including Serge Gainsbourg, Boris Vian, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Henri Salvador Pierre Dac, Raymond Devos, Robert Lamoureux and Jean Yanne. In addition, Canetti was the artistic director at Polydor and later Philips, where he, among other recordings by Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Guy Béart, Félix Leclerc, Francis Lemarque, Serge Gainsbourg, Henri Salvador, Boris Vian, Raymond Devos, Fernand Raynaud, Anne Sylvestre Pierre Dac, Francis Blanche, Juliette Greco, Catherine Sauvage and Claude Nougaro produced.

In 1963, Canetti retired from Philips and founded the record company Les Productions Jacques Canetti in which he brought out the first albums by Jeanne Moreau, Serge Reggiani, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Simone Signoret, Pierre Brasseur and Michel Simon, among others. Since his death in 1997, the company has been run by his children. Canetti was interred in the Cimetière du Père - Lachaise in Paris.