Etienne Roda-Gil

Etienne Roda-Gil , born on August 1st, 1941 with Septfonds (Tarn-et-Garonne), deceased on May 28th, 2004 with Paris of a Stroke, is an author of Chanson and dialogist of Cinéma.

Forgery bear and true drinker of Whiskey, Ground-Gil is the son of a Spanish republican taken refuge in France. Laid off in letters, medical representative, it meets Julien Clerc in 1968 in a coffee of the Latin Quarter of Paris and starts with him a profitable collaboration which stops in 1980. He also writes for France Gall, the partner of this last at the time.

Anarchistic, it often takes part in the manifestations of CNT.

In 1979, it takes part for Gerard Lenorman in the album Boulevard of the ocean . In 1984, it Co-writing with Pascal Danel several of the synopses of the scenarized variety programme Macadam. Nadine Delahaye, painter, becomes his wife and the love of her life until its death in 1990. But Julien Clerc, the friend, the son, returns to him. “does has what serve a song if it is disarmed? ”, required Ground-Gil in the album Utile (1992) which will obtain the Prix Vincent Scotto the following year. Johnny Hallyday, Claude François, Juliette Gréco, Barbara, Pascal Danel, Pascal Obispo or Louis Bertignac also interpreted its titles.

Etienne Roda-Gil published in the Threshold the Door marinades and it adapted for the scenario writer Andrzej Zulawski the Idiot of Dostoïevski, renamed “the Love directs” (1985).

In 1989, it received the Grand Prix of the song of SACEM.

Ground-Gil had been made a dictionary of the words of one and two syllables.

Author of many successes like:

“California”, “It is nothing”, “This Melody” or “Useful” (Julien Clerc).
“the Lake Maggiore” (Dead Shuman),
“Géronimo” (Catherine Lara),
“Joe the taxi”, “Marilyn and John” (Vanessa Paradis)
“Alexandria, Alexandra” and “Magniolias for ever” (Claude François).

Functions:

Administrator of SACEM (1996-1999 and 2000-2003).

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