Pierre Perret

Biography

His/her parents Maurice and Claudia hold a coffee, the Coffee of the Bridge, in which it will pass most of his childhood, consequently learning many Argot S and languages from trades.

Into 14 years, it integrates the academy of music of Toulouse and is also registered with the academy of dramatic art. It will obtain a price of Saxophone. In parallel, it assembles its first small orchestra of four musicians to his own name and during a few years, they turn in all the area of balls in family festivals.

In 1953 it carries out its Military service. It passes by the academy of Paris and visit often the writer Paul Léautaud. In 1956, one finds it accompanying with the guitar the young singer Francoise Marin in the cabaret the Dove. One evening, the left customers, it shows its first songs with Michel Valette, the owner of the place. He sings Adèle then to him, Which she was pretty ,… But too timid, he refuses the proposal of this one to urge it to sing. In spite of that, the following day, after the Marine song recital of Francoise, Michel Valette forces the hand to him by announcing it by surprised with the customers of the Dove and after being itself made request in an environment good child, it ends up accepting. It gains a sharp success which puts it in confidence and incites it to accept its first engagement of singer. It was with the Dove.

In 1957, it lives with Francoise Marin become Francoise Lô which plays Three Donkeys, Pierre accompanying it with the guitar. One evening, he sings some of his own songs and is noticed by Boris Vian, Jacques Canetti and especially by the agent Emile Hebey. That Ci presents it to Eddie Barclay with which it signs a contract of recording. It is in the offices of the Barclay discs that it will become acquainted with Simone Mazaltarim which will become his wife and which it will rename Rébecca. His first 45 turns, Me I await Adèle leaves this year there and he becomes father of Jumeau X.

In 1958, Pierre continues the round of the cabarets Paris iens and furrows the roads of France and Africa in first part of the American group the Platters. In November, a Pleurésie obliges it to remain almost two years in a Sanatorium. It receives the support of the trade then.

In 1960 leaves marital Happiness , its first 25 cm. But the sales are not sufficient and Barclay puts an end to its contract. It signs then at Vogue and Lucien Morisse becomes his artistic agent. In 1963, Pierre Perret is its first success with the song Twists It Bowels (100.000 e.g.). It connects successes then and makes its first fine Olympia 1966. He lives Gennevilliers with his family during 8 years.

In 1969, he plays in the film the Potatos of Claude Autant-Lara with Jacques Balutin, Rufus, Henri Virlojeux, Bérangère Dautin, Christine Aurel, of which he signs the music of film. He also plays in a comic Western of Jean Girault the Judge with Robert Hossein in 1970.

He is his larger success in 1974 with Zizi (5 million e.g.). He gradually puts himself to write more serious texts. Its song Lily , written in 1977 will become traditional songs antiracists. He also writes on the Famine ( Riz crushed ), the ecology ( Vert of Anger ), the Guerre ( small Kurdish ), the Tabac ( Mourir of the Tobacco ), the Avortement ( She awaits its small ) or the increase of the Fascisme ( the Animal returned ). Left in 1998, this song against the National front was worth many letters of insults to him. Following the album of the same name, it made a round, passing in particular to the Festival Old Plow where it will play in front of 60.000 people.

In 2003, he collaborates with the group the Ogres of Barback for his album Çui the . He returns to arrangements evoking the variety of the Seventies for his following album, Mélangez you which leaves in 2006. Its sales do not reach any more the records of formerly, the author however having gained the title of traditional of the French song.

He also became an author with success as with his Dictionnaire the speech of the trades left in 2003.

In 2006, it is invited by the president of the National Assembly Jean-Louis Debré, at a few days of the resumption of the discussion of the bill on the royalties, it pled against the Global license: " It is as if one returned in a bakery and that one raflait all without paying ".

It takes part in the Committee of Orientation for the Simplification of the Administrative Language (COSLA).

Its work

The principal tone of the songs of Perret is a enjoué tone, typical of the variety. Some also belong to the tradition of bawdy songs, where one speaks about sexuality in an indirect and merry way. For example " Zizi" tell a course of sex education at the elementary school.

Partial discography

1957 : Me I await Adèle
1960: Marital happiness
1963: Bowels
1964 Twists: Christmas before term
1967: Uncle Cristobal
1971: The cage with the birds
1973: The plumber
1974: The zizi
1976: That of Alice
1977: Lily
1979 : My p' tit Wolf
1981: It is spring
1983: How is it China?
1986 : Irene
1989: The " rice amer" African
1992: Bercy Madeleine
1996: Songs éroticocoquines
1997: Casino of Paris
1998: Humor always (compilation)
1998: The animal returned
1998: Tenderly yours (compilation)
2002: Çui-là
2003 : Of the laughter to the tears (compilation)
2006: You mix
2007: Pleasure of the Gods

Some songs

1963 : twists It bowels , the bullfight , Pépé jactance
1966: the Pretty Summer camps , White , the bottom of Lucette
1967: Uncle Cristobal , Marcel , the Mimi soft , the postières
1968: Thighs of fly , Not, I will not go to my aunt , the kisses
1969: Shearer of egg
1970: Fillette happiness it is always for tomorrow , When the sun enters my house
1971: Hurries my love , the cage with the birds , large the ourse , My wife , Olga , the plumber
1974: With hair , Zizi , the infidel , My p' tite Julia
1975: broken Crockery
1976: My new address , I am of Castelsarrasin
1977: Lily , With the Coffee of the Channel
1979: Estelle , the hospital , My p' tit wolf
1981: Y' has fifty kids in the staircase , Amour freedom truth
1986: Our friends the animals , the Widow
1989: Rice crushed
1992: Bercy Madeleine , the small Kurd
1998: the animal returned
2003: Çui there , Vivouza
2006: you Mix , Malika

Its books

1985 : small Perret illustrated by the example (dictionary of the slang)
1991: small Perret of the Fables (Tome1: 19xx? - T2: 1991-T3: 1992)
1992: Let sing small the (biography)
1993: great sizes of the history
1994: small greedy Perret (kitchen)
1996: kitchen of my wife
1997: the Thoughts (seeks It midday editor (& I have LU (pocket))
2000 : Anthology of erotic poetry
2002: Strange Larousse (dictionary in images)
2003: speech of the trades (vocabulary of 145 professions)
2005: coffee of the Bridge (biography)

External bonds

www.paroles.net Texts of more than 250 songs of Pierre Perret.
www.rateyourmusic.com Discography of Pierre Perret: Albums, 45 turns simple, Super 45 turns and compilations with visualization of the small pockets and updates regular.
''' Songs of Pierre Perret with translation ''' Texts and translations of the words of slang and the slang expressions of the songs of Pierre Perret.

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