Anna Marly

Biography

Born the October 30th 1917 with Saint-Pétersbourg, during the Russian Revolution during which his/her father was shot, Anna Betoulinski leaves the Russia for the France at the beginning of the Années 1920 with his/her mother, her sister and her nanny. At the thirteen years age the nanny offers a guitar to him. This gift from which it will never separate will upset its life.

A few years later, it takes the name of Anna Marly (patronym found in the directory) to dance in the Russian Ballet before starting a career of singer in the large Parisian cabarets. Anna Marly knows a new exodus in May 1940 which carries out it, via the Spain and the Portugal, in London in 194 1 where it engages as cantinière at the general headquarter of the free French Forces of Carlton Garden. It is there that it composes, with the guitar, its Chant of the partisans .

It had composed in 1942 the music and the Russian words of the Chant of the partisans , whose French words were written in 1943 with London by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon. The Song of the partisans , “the Marseillaise of Resistance”, was created in 1943 with London. Immediately, it became the anthem of French, and even European Resistance. It is also a call to the fraternal fight for freedom: “It is we who break the bars of the prisons for our brothers”; the certainty which the combat is never vain: “if you tombs, a friend leave the shade in your place”.

Become the code of the emission of the radio operator British BBC Honor and Patrie , then like signs recognition in the maquis, the Song of the partisans had become a world success. Anna had chosen to whistle this song, because the whistled melody remained audible in spite of the jamming of the BBC carried out by the Germans.

It composed moreover 300 songs of which the lament of the partisan , taken again by Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen, and a song at three times for Edith Piaf.

After the war, Anna Marly leaves France for the South America and furrows the Africa before settling with the the United States.

The June 17th 2000, Anna Marly sang with the the Pantheon, with the Chœur of the French Army, the Song of the partisans the day before the 60e birthday of the Appel of June 18th 1940 of the general De Gaulle.

She died the February 15th 2006 in Alaska, where she resided. A small public garden bears its name to Meudon.

External bonds

the Russian site on Anna Marly
Some songs of Anna Marly - song of the partisans, songs Russian
a song at three times (1947) on the words and music of Anna Marly interpreted by Edith Piaf
a song at three times (1947) parition
song of the partisans (song of the Release) (1943) parition
Ways of memory (French governmental site)

Discography

Anna Marly, songs of Resistance and the Release (with the support of the Ministry for defense)

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