Henri Salvador
Henri Gabriel El Salvador is a Chanteur and Guitariste of Jazz French born with Cayenne, in French Guyana, the July 18th 1917. Except her incredible longevity (of the Years 1930 so far, at the first years of the 21e century), Henri Salvador is an outstanding character of the French and world music:
- its popular songs remain fredonnées by generations of French ( Syracuse ; the wolf, the hind and the knight ( a soft song ), etc);
- he is the first singer of Rock' N roll French (1956);
- it would be with the source of the Brazilian Bossa nova (1957).
Biography
It is at the 12 years age that it unloads steamer Peru in the port of the Havre on August 16th, 1929 in company of all its family. His/her father, Clovis , and his/her mother, Benevolent Antonine , girl of an Indian Caribbean, are both natives of Guadeloupe. His/her father of Dull-with-the Water and his/her mother of Port-Louis. He has a sister Alice and a brother, André , with which he sang in duet at the beginning of his career, and with which he made the beautiful days of the Jimmy' S with Paris and with Biarritz. His/her brother André El Salvador was Grand Prix of the Disc 1947 with Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-bop with the orchestra of André Ekyan.From December 1941 in December 1945, it belongs to the orchestra of Ray Ventura at the time of its stay in South America - Brésil, Argentine, Colombia, Uruguay, etc It exerts there its talents of guitarist-singer and comic with an imitation of Popeye.
, Become singer thereafter, it always made in kind combine on its albums very whimsical songs and soft songs, although the general public is shown more enthusiastic on the first, where it reigned without division, while competition was severe in the field of the seconds (André Claveau, Georges Ulmer, etc).
Under the Pseudonym of Henry Cording, he sings, in 1956, of the pieces of Rock' roll in French written by Boris Vian and composed by Michel Legrand and itself (Rock'n'roll hoquet) . In parallel it records a 45-turns with the guitar jazz entitled El Salvador plays the blues .
He was lyric writer for many artists, in particular for Régine, Sheila. He made known with the general public Art Mengo and Keren Ann. A new album is awaited at the end of October 2006 entitled Initially .
The photographer Jean-Marie Périer revealed that he was the son of Henri Salvador.
Henri Salvador also lent himself to the cartoon film doubling, by lending her voice in 1990 to the Sebastien crab in the Small Siren , of the Studios Disney. In 2006, at the time of the exit dvd of film, it also re-recorded the dialogs of its continuation, Small Siren 2: Return to the ocean , dialogs entrusted to another actor on the original version of 2000.
He currently lives close to Vernon
Rewards
- Victoire of the music 2001 of the group or artist interprets male year
- the November 8th 2005 Henri Salvador is decorated with Brasilia with the Ordem C Mérito Cultural (Cultural Order of Merit) Brésil IEN which it receives with the hands of the singer and Ministre of the Culture Gilberto Gil and in the presence of President Luíz Inácio da Silva for her contribution with the diffusion out of the borders of the culture of this country, in particular the Bossa nova that it would have contributed to invent.
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Henri Salvador is also a Commander of the Légion of honor and National order of the Merit.
Curiosity: to support PSG
Supportor of the Paris Saint-Germain since the beginning of the Years 1970, Henri Salvador has four subscriptions with life with the Parc of the Princes since the Hechter era. The club was indeed in a bad financial master key and Daniel Hechter required of his friends to put the hand at the pocket. N the other hand of 10 000 francs of gifts, Hechter offered a subscription to life with the Park for all the matches of the club. Henri Salvador took four of them.
Discography
Albums
- 1989 : Of the tastes and the colors
- 1994 : Mr Henri
- 2000 : Room with sight
- 2002 : Performance! (public recording)
- 2003 : My expensive and tender
- 2006 : Révérence
External bonds
- Official site
- Collection of discs of Henri Salvador
- Henri Salvador, type-setter and interprets songs of Boris Vian
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