Claude Nougaro

   
Artist: Claude Nougaro

   Genre(s): 
Chanson
   

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Discography:


   
 Grand Angle Sur Nougaro

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 22


   
 L'Enfant Phare

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 13


   
 Les Plus Belles Chansons

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12

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Widely regarded as the isaac M. Singer wHO amalgamated the traditions of the French chanson with the push and verve of American jazz, Claude Nougaro was born in Toulouse on September 9, 1929. The son of an opera isaac Merrit Singer and a pianoforte instructor, he was elevated for the most part by his grandparents, avid not only classical music but also the homegrown pop of Charles Trenet and Edith Piaf, and the American swing of Louis Armstrong and Glenn Miller broadcast via Radio-Toulouse. Despite his love of the humanities, Nougaro never learned to read music or toy an pawn, and in 1947, he briefly worked as a journalist earlier helping a stretch in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco. After his military service wrapped he colonised in Paris, dabbling in poesy and befriending the playwright Jacques Audiberti, through whom Nougaro made a number of contacts in the nightclub reality. He first performed at the Montmarte club Le Lapin Agile in 1955, further elevation his profile by authorship lyrics for Piaf. Nougaro made his number one recordings in 1958 -- although the style was to sing in unadulterated French, he performed with a marked Toulousian emphasis, with loggerheaded syllables and a rhythmic deepness born of his tenderness for American vocalists. In addition to collaborating with idle words greats including Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, and Nat Adderley, during the sixties Nougaro studied Brazilian music, operative with Baden Powell and Chico Buarque -- his favored songs include "Je Suis Sous" ("I Am Drunk"), "Cécile, Ma Fille" ("Cecile, My Daughter"), "Jazz and Java," and "French capital Mai," penned in the wake of May 1968's anti-government pupil demonstrations. Although Nougaro's commercial fortunes declined during the 1970s, during the undermentioned decennary he made a retort inspired by the success of Nougaro, an album reduce in New York City -- around the same time, he as well experimented with African rhythms. After age of weakness wellness, Nougaro died March 4, 2004 at the age of 74 -- afterward his passing, French president Jacques Chirac aforementioned "a veritable poet has left hand us."





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