biography
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Trenet, Charles
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nickname Le Fou Chantant
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pronunciation:
[truhnay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913–2001)
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| biography:
| Singer, born in Narbonne, S France. He studied painting before turning to music, and throughout a long career lost neither vitality nor youthful optimism. He performed with Johnny Hess in 1934–6 as the duo Les Collégiens Swing, then went to the ABC where he made ‘Y'a d'la Joie’. Famous after his first film La Route Enchantée (1938), many record successes followed, including ‘Je chante’, ‘La polka du Roi’, and notably ‘La Mer’, ‘Boum’ (1938, Grand Prix du Disque), ‘La Porte du Garage’, and ‘Douce France’. He made a farewell tour in Canada in 1983 and some triumphal reappearances on stage in 1986 and 1997. In 1983 he was rejected by the Académie Française in spite of undeniable qualities as a poet. He received the Légion d'Honneur in 1998. |
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