Jean Ferrat was born in Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine. He was the youngest of four children from a modest family which moved to Versailles in 1935, Ferrat studied at the Jules Ferry College. His father, a Russian Jew, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where he died. Ferrat dropped out of school to help the family survive.
In the early 1950s he started in Parisian cabaret. After that he has avoided any particular musical style, but remained faithful to himself, his friends and his public.
In 1956, he set "Les yeux d'Elsa" ("Elsa's eyes"), a Louis Aragon poem which Ferrat loved, to music. Its rendition by popular artist André Claveau brought Ferrat some initial recognition as a songwriter.
His first 45 RPM single was released in 1958, without success. It was not until 1959, with publisher Gérard Meys, who also became his close friend and associate, that his career started to flourish. He signed with Decca and released his second single, "Ma Môme", in 1960 under the musical direction of Meys.
In 1961 Ferrat married Christine Sèvres, a singer who performed some of his songs. He also met Alain Goraguer, who became an arranger of his songs. His debut album, Deux Enfants du Soleil, was released that year. Ferrat also wrote songs for Zizi Jeanmaire and went on the road, sharing billing with her at the Alhambra for six months.
Nuit et Brouillard, which followed in 1963, was awarded the Académie Charles Cros's Grand Prix du Disque. Ferrat toured again in 1965, but stopped performing on stage in 1973.
1980
In 1990, he received an award from the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, (SACEM) the French association of songwriters, composers and music publishers.
In 2010, Ferrat died of a long illness[2] at the age of 79
Louis Aragon, original name Louis Andrieux (b. Oct. 3, 1897, Paris, France—d. Dec. 24, 1982, Paris), French poet, novelist, and essayist who was a political activist and spokesperson for communism.
Through the Surrealist poet André Breton, Aragon was introduced to avant-garde movements such as Dadaism. Together with Philippe Soupault, he and Breton founded the Surrealist review Littérature (1919). Aragon’s first poems, Feu de joie (1920; “Bonfire”) and Le Mouvement perpétuel (1925; “Perpetual Motion”), were followed by a novel, Le Paysan de Paris (1926; The Nightwalker). In 1927 his search for an ideology led him to the French Communist Party, with which he was identified thereafter, as he came to exercise a continuing authority over its literary and artistic expression.
In 1930 Aragon visited the Soviet Union, and in 1933 his political commitment to communism resulted in a break with the Surrealists. The four volumes of his long novel series, Le Monde réel (1933–44; “The Real World”), describe in historical perspective the class struggle of the proletariat toward social revolution. Aragon continued to employ Socialist Realism in another long novel, Les Communistes (6 vol., 1949–51), a bleak chronicle of the party from 1939 to 1940. His next three novels—La Semaine sainte (1958; Holy Week), La Mise à mort (1965; “The Moment of Truth”), and Blanche ou l’oubli (1967; “Blanche, or Forgetfulness”)—became a veiled autobiography, laced with pleas for the Communist Party. They reflected the newer novelistic techniques of the day.
The poems of Le Crève-Coeur (1941; “Heartbreak”) and La Diane française (1945) express Aragon’s ardent patriotism, and those of Les Yeux d’Elsa (1942; “Elsa’s Eyes”) and Le fou d’Elsa (1963; “Elsa’s Madman”) contain deep sentiments of love for his wife. From 1953 to 1972 Aragon was editor of the communist cultural weekly Les Lettres Françaises. He was made a member of the French Legion of Honour in 1981.
Disque 1 :
1. Les yeux d'Elsa
2. Un jour un jour
3. Le tiers chant
4. Le malheur d'aimer
5. Les poètes
6. Nous dormirons ensemble
7. C'est si peu dire que je t'aime
8. Aimer à perdre la raison
9. J'entends j'entends
10. Dans le silence de la ville
11. Que serais-je sans toi
12. Robert le diable
13. Les lilas
14. Au bout de mon âge
15. Heureux celui qui meurt d'aimer
Disque 2 :
1. Complainte de Pablo Neruda
2. Elle
3. J'arrive où je suis étranger
4. Devine
5. Chagall
6. Les feux de Paris
7. Chambres d'un moment
8. Lorsque s'en vient le soir
9. Qui vivra verra
10. Odeux des myrtils
11. Carco
12. Musique de ma vie
13. Pablo mon ami
14. Pourtant la vie
15. Les oiseaux déguisés
16. Epilogue
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