http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE62C1LJ20100313
No thread on him! Though I guess there are some on Brel and Brassens, who are two of the chansonniers he is being put alongside. Do you enjoy Ferrat's music?
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:13 (sixteen years ago)
A wonderful singer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it_vXFnpl6k
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:21 (sixteen years ago)
This is lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdRZL_Q3ujs
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:26 (sixteen years ago)
President Nicolas Sarkozy issued a statement praising the singer's "unyielding conception of French song" and Ferrat's death headlined evening news bulletins.
Possibly something lost in translation with the Sarkozy quote?
― Neil S, Sunday, 14 March 2010 12:01 (sixteen years ago)
I know nothing about French cabaret singers other than Jacques Brel. From the obit it seems he had quite a life.
Meanwhile I know a little about Brazilian bossa nova, but was not familiar with Johnny Alf, a father of that genre who just died and whose passing we chose to acknowledge on the bossa nova thread. Maybe I should have given him his own thread? bossa nova: S&D
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:06 (sixteen years ago)