Francesca Solleville

Francesca Solleville (born with Périgueux in 1932) is a French singer.

Biography

To Paris, it follows the courses of the professional singer Marya Freud and follows studies of letters to the Sorbonne where it obtains a license. It is committed in the choruses of Radio France. Influenced by German Montéro and encouraged by Léo Shoed, it is directed by Jacques Douai towards the recording company Musical box. It records there its first 45 turns in 1959: Francesca Solleville sings Aragon and Mac Orlan . She sings with the cabaret the Dove and the Lock, where she meets many authors.

In the Years 1960, it records songs of Jean Ferrat, Helene Martin, Pierre Louki, Georges Coulonges, Yani Spanos, Philippe-Gerard and poems of Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Genet, Paul Fort, Aragon. She sings in the film Dragées with the pepper which leaves in 1963. She receives the Grand Prix of the Académie Charles Cros for her recital of 1964.

She affirms herself as interprets songs engaged against the Nazisme, the Franquisme, the Guerre of Vietnam. She also supports the working cause ( song of the workmen ). In 1971, it records with Mouloudji and François Mestral the Commune by singing , a homage to the hundred years of the Commune of Paris. In 1975, it leaves Chants exile and fight on texts of Pablo Neruda. In 1988, it celebrates the bicentenary of the French revolution with Musique, citizens! Allain Leprest writes the words of its album Al Cogs of 1994. In 2004, it publishes its autobiography, has piena voce , written with the collaboration of Jacques Legras.

Recent discography

I am thus (1990)
Al cogs (1994)
Big brother, little brother (2000)
One ruffle never old (2003)
Francesca Solleville sings Allain Leprest (2006)

External bonds

Official site
Biography

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