Hugues Aufray

Hugues Aufray (born Hugues Auffray , the August 18th 1929 with Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a Chanteur French. Often poetic, its songs evokes the voyages, the friendship, fraternity, the tolerance. He is the brother of the actress Pascale Audret (1936 - 2000).

Biography

After three last years with Madrid where his/her father lived, Aufray gains France and starts to sing in Spanish, then very quickly interprets the songs of Felix Leclerc, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, etc Gaining of the contest Numbers 1 of Tomorrow , it is noticed by Eddie Barclay which makes him record its first disc in 1959.

Author of many songs of which it carries out sometimes arrangements or the music, it Co-will sign some much with the lyric writers Vline Buggy and Pierre Delanoë, but also Jacques Plante, Claude Morgan, etc Hugues Aufray also draws his repertory in the Folklore Spanish, Anglo-Saxons and Latin-American, like in the Blues and the rock'n'roll. He also worked with many type-setters, such as Jean-Pierre Sabar, Georges Augier de Moussac, Guy Magenta etc

In 1964, Hugues Aufray represents Luxembourg with the Concours Eurovision of the Song; he is classified 4th with his song " As soon as spring returns ".

Its songs belong to the French cultural heritage , one finds them in many notebooks of songs and they are taught in the schools. Some among most known of the French songs, like Stewball or Santiano , are adapted of a American Chant of sailors.

He was the first French to discover Bob Dylan and to adapt the songs of them. The translations of Anglo-Saxon texts, in particular those of Bob Dylan, often edulcorate the crudeness of the original text. The musical arrangements which make the good share with the acoustic guitar indicate an influence of the American folk.

It shares its life between its house in the neighborhoods of Paris and its farm of the Ardèche. Impassioned horsemanship it created equestrian spectacles (Riders without borders), of the training courses of horsemanship for children and a ranch in the Alps. It was much interested also in the veil and devotes part of its repertory to the sea and the sailors.

Topics approached

Hugues Aufray is defined itself “between Right Bank and left bank”: its texts and interpretations fight the Racisme and the intolerance ( the colored pencils ), it returns during its spectacles its right place to the negro music (gospel, blues, jazz, etc) in the emergence of the rock'n'roll to the United States and thus of the current music in the whole world, resistance and creativity of the torn off African culture of force with its ground. In addition, it defends certain aspects Réactionnaire S, as in Adieu Mister Professeur , a song which it wrote in the middle of the storm of May 1968 and which deplores the lack of respect of the students and encourages with the respect of the Masters. It thus has a personality more moderated than a first approach does not let foresee.

Repertory by author

Troubadour metissor of musical cultures, it interprets the songs of other authors like Serge Gainsbourg, Felix Leclerc and Georges Brassens, and adapts in French of the American songs of Bob Dylan, Roger Miller… musics " folk" US and southern American.

Itself

Mister the Sun

Bob Dylan

Nino To shoe

the South

Felix Leclerc

Await to me “Ti-guy”
Bozo
This morning
As Abraham
Dialog of in love
It is not pretty
I have two mountains to cross
the song of the pharmacist
the girl of the island
the sea is not the sea
the ball
small happiness
Me, my shoes
Our path
Tirelou
Y' has loves

Jean-Pierre Sabar

With the soft shore
Bye bye Moorea Tahiti
the wild child
Tighten to him the hand

Charles Trénet

Night of winter

Others

Discography

Vinyls

1965 : Olympia 1965
1965 : Hugues Aufray sings Bob Dylan
1966: Céline/Le spring returns
1972: You my lady/good-bye
Dou Wakadou/On is the kings/the remorses and the regrets/Bambou
the man orchestre/Je believed/Laisse me little girl/the closed eyes

CD

integral Concert
In Olympia 1964
1991: the Earth is so beautiful , Carabas Production: resumption of 16 of its successes with more electric arrangements.
1993 : Little Troubadour
1993: Santiano , Barclay
1993: Integral Barclay
1994: Best off
1995: Aufray trans dylan
1999: the best of Hugues Aufray
2000: Each one its sea
2000: Best off
2001: With the solitary winds
2005: Hugues Aufray sings Felix Leclerc
2005: Hugues Aufray, live than ever
2007: Hugh!

DVD

Road 91 , Olympia 1991
2005: Hugues Aufray, live than ever!

External bonds

Official site
Discography in [[45 turns]] on Encyclopédisque
'' Vidéo: '' Hugues Aufray in 1965, it is expressed on work, happiness, the life, a file of the French-speaking Switzerland Télévision

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