Jean Ferrat
Jean Ferrat was a French singer, songwriter, and poet who enjoyed a long if sometimes controversial career with his passionate songs of love and Leftist politics. Ferrat was born Jean Tenenbaum in Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine, on December 26, 1930, the last of four children. His father, a Russian Jew, was a jeweler who relocated the family to Versailles in 1935, but in 1942 he was captured by Axis forces and sent to Auschwitz, where he was executed less than a week later. Young Jean was hidden by Communist members of the French resistance and survived the war; in 1945 he dropped out of school to go to work and help support the family as a chemist's assistant. But he had developed a keen interest in both poetry and performing, and he began playing guitar with a jazz combo, writing songs, and acting with a small theater company. After adopting the stage name Jean Laroche, he began performing as a solo act, and adapted Louis Aragon's poem "Les Yeux d'Elsa" into a song; when it became a hit for singer André Claveau in 1956, it gave the recently renamed Jean Ferrat a major career boost, and he was signed to a record contract in 1958. Ferrat's debut single was a commercial failure, but after forming a partnership with publisher and musical director Gerard Meys, he enjoyed much greater success with 1960's "Ma Mome," and Ferrat soon became a star. Ferrat's songs openly dealt with his political concerns; his 1963 single "Nuit et Brouillard" (Night and Fog) was a meditation on the Holocaust and its consequences, while a number of his other tunes dealt with the struggle of the working class, and he was an outspoken supporter of Fidel Castro, writing a number about him called "Cuba Si." (Ferrat was just as willing to criticize the Soviet Union for its misdeeds, and "Bilan" was a song attacking the failures of the USSR.) Despite the media's hesitancy toward his more controversial material, Ferrat enjoyed significant popular success through the 1960s, but he was never comfortable with performing live and withdrew from the concert stage in 1973. Living in the rural village of Antraigues, Ferrat published poetry, adapted the work of others and continued to write songs, periodically releasing new albums through the 1970s and '80s. His final album, another collection of musical adaptations of Aragon's poetry, was released in 1995. After a long illness, Ferrat died on March 13, 2010.
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Ma France
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 01.03.1969
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Les Annees Barclay
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 01.01.1992
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La fête aux copains 1962
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 06.03.2020
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Ferrat 2000: L'intégrale
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 23.11.1995
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1979 - 1980 : Les instants volés - L'amour est cerise
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 01.01.1988
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1991 : Dans la jungle ou dans le zoo
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 01.01.1991
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Quand on n'interdira plus mes chansons
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 13.03.2020
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Ferrat Chante Aragon, l'intégrale
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 23.11.1995
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Ferrat Chante Aragon
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 01.11.1971
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La Commune
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 06.03.2020
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Camarade
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 06.03.2020
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Ferrat Chante Aragon, Vol.2
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 01.10.1994
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Aimer à perdre la raison
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei UME - Global Clearing House am 06.02.2023
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1972 - 1975 : A moi l'Afrique - La femme est l'avenir de l'homme
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 01.01.1988
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1965 - 1966 : Potemkine - Maria
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 01.01.1988
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Deux Enfants Au Soleil
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 01.11.1961
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L'intégrale Temey - 195 chansons
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Temey am 29.11.2010
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Vol 2-C'Est Beau La Vie
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 01.01.1990
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Nuit Et Brouillard
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Barclay am 01.12.1963
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Le meilleur de Jean ferrat en 20 titres (Mono Version)
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.2014
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C'est beau la vie
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Love Of Angy am 06.03.2015
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