Claude Nougaro

Claude Nougaro is a Chanteur French of varieties, born the September 9th 1929 with Toulouse and dead the March 4th 2004 with Paris. It was also tested with the Peinture, the drawing and the poetry.

Biography

Wire of Pierre Nougaro, singer of opera and Liette Tellini, piano teacher Italian (and first price of piano to the academy), it is raised by his grandparents with Toulouse, where it listens to Glenn Miller, Edith Piaf and Louis Armstrong (inter alia) with the radio. In 1947, it fails the baccalaureat, and begins then with Paris in the journalism (while writing for various newspapers, of which the Newspaper of Curistes to Vichy and the Echo of Algiers ). In parallel, he writes songs for Marcel Amont ( the Barber of Belleville, the Sweeping one of the king ) and Philippe Clay ( Joseph, the Sentinel ). He on the spot meets Georges Brassens, which becomes his/her friend and his mentor, and he writes Poésie.

He makes his military service in 1949, in the Foreign legion with Rabat, with the Morocco.

He sends texts to Marguerite Monnot, type-setter of Edith Piaf, which puts them in music ( Méphisto, the Path of the war ). He starts to sing to earn his living in 1959 in a Parisian cabaret, the Nimble Rabbit, with Montmartre.

In 1962, it decided to sing itself its works: a Little girl and Cecile my daughter (dedicated to his/her daughter, born in 1962 from its Sylvie wife, met with the Nimble Rabbit). These songs immediately made it know general public, although it already started to bore while taking part in the concerts of Dalida. With beginning of the year 60, it introduces new rates/rhythms into the French song and composes of many songs to the yéyé tempo and the provocative texts (" More still than in the room, I love you in the kitchen. Nothing is more beautiful than the hands of a woman in the farine" …)

An car accident immobilizes it several months in 1963. The following year, it leaves on a journey to the Brésil, and sings in prestigious rooms: the Olympia, the Palate, the Theater from the City in Paris.

The death of his/her friend Jacques Audiberti in 1965 makes him write a homage in song, Chanson for the mason .

The events of May 68 inspire torrential a Paris May to him, plea for the life, which will be interdict of antenna, although he is savagely opposed to the policy: if I must endorse this guérite narrow, with its left sleeve, with its right sleeve, its pale speeches, its crimson anthems, its passion of the future, its chronicle amnesia… It records the same year its first album live in Olympia: One evening with Claude Nougaro .

Its song Toulouse is a vibrating homage to its birthplace, Toulouse.

Its career then continues systematically, punctuated success: the Jazz and the Java , You will see , the Ile de Ré , Armstrong or Petit Bull . After an album considered to be disappointing on the level of the results (Blue White Blues) in 1984, its recording company does not renew its contract to him. Nougaro leaves then for New York, in search of inspiration, writing and on the spot records a disc financed by WEA (the executive producer is Mick Lanaro): Nougayork , whose resounding success was an ironic surprise.

It is rewarded in 1988 by the Victoires for the music for the best album and the best artist, and 1993 with 1997, it leaves three new albums.

Its health is degraded starting from 1995, year when it undergoes an operation of the heart; in 2003, it cannot occur with the Festival of the Verb in Toulouse because of its health condition. Of 1998 with 2004, it is devoted more to concerts and festivals, without forgetting to take part in an album to help the children suffering from the AIDS.

In 2002 it occurs in all France with a spoken spectacle, where it takes again several of its texts (Victor, Plume of angel…) without music. Its interpretation is the DVD " object; Fables of my fontaine".

In 2003 and 2004 it prepares an album for the label jazz Blue-note but cannot complete this disc " The note bleue" who leaves in 2004.

After having undergone new surgical operations beginning 2004, it dies in March, at 74 years, of the continuations of a Cancer.

Its funerals were celebrated with Toulouse, in the basilica Saint-Sernin. Part of its ashes was dispersed in the the Garonne. A municipal garden of the city bears its name today.

Its music is inspired inter alia American jazz, of which it takes again many titles (Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck), but also by musics of the Brésil (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Baden Powell de Aquino, Chico Buarque): to see the List of the French songs inspired by the Brazilian music.

Selection discographic

Books

  • the drunk one of words (2002)
  • Fables of my fountain (2003)

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