Harry Fragson , from its true name Victor Leon Philippe Pot , was born in London in 1869 and died in Paris the December 30th 1913, killed by his/her father during an argument.

One of the most famous composer-songwriters of the Years 1900 with Mayol, Dranem and Polin, Fragson always cultivated ambiguity as for its origins.

As for Fragson, it made studies at the Institute of Trade of Antwerp and diverts his comrades by playing piano the airs with the mode. Failing the examinations, it went to try its chance with Paris and auditioned for the theater workshop of the Quat-Z-arts , where it was engaged like guide. Returned of a stay with London, it imported in France the Ragtime.

It made a brilliant career with the variety in France and the United Kingdom. It innovated while being accompanied with the Piano, and interpreted a repertory between comic and romantic songs. Its great successes were: lame the , Reviens, you want , the friends of Mister , I know a blonde , If you want Marguerite .

After his assassination, his/her half-brother and his family asserted the heritage, but because of a too slow procedure, the entirety of the goods of Fragson returned at the French State. Its family was in a major feeling of injustice, after being last beside a colossal fortune: Fragson had several residences of luxury, of the objects of a priceless value, the royalties of all its successes, and it was the largest shareholder of Panama Canal. Its descendants (indirect) resident today in Liege, in Belgium.

Barbara took again some of her titles at the beginning of her career and homage in one of its songs returned to him: Fragson on the album Only (1981).

Discography

• Compilation 1903-1912 (Chansophone collection), published in France in 1994.