Pierre Barouh
Pierre Elie Barouh ( born February 19, 1934 in Paris ) is a French composer, singer and author.
Life
Barouh grew up with his siblings in Levallois -Perret, where his parents operated a commodity trade, lived until the outbreak of the Second World War. Then they brought their children to safety in the region Montournais, Vendée, what life later in many song lyrics Barouhs finds ( à bicyclette, Des ronds dans l'eau, Les filles du Dimanche ). After the war Barouh worked as a sports journalist; as an active athlete, he was a member of the French national volleyball team.
For longer stays in Portugal Barouh discovered Brazilian music, especially the Bossa Nova, for themselves and contacted the composer of this style. He also tried at the beginning of the 1960s. Acting and documentary about the Bossa Nova, where he portrayed Baden Powell de Aquino In 1966 he was involved in Claude Lelouch with a Golden Palm in Cannes excellent A man and a woman as performer and composer. Barouh acquired after a mill in Vendée, where he built a recording studio; he named his record label Saravah, with which he discovered many musical talents in the following years and promoted, including Jacques and Brigitte Fontaine Higelin. Barouh was married from 1966 to 1969 with Anouk Aimée.
Since his marriage to the Japanese Atsuko Ushioda spending since the 1980s Barouh half the year in the home country of his wife; still, he regularly publishes music recordings - the music for the 1992 Winter Olympic Games comes from him - is involved in movies and writes plays.