Métamec is the name of a posthumous album and a long poem by French singer-songwriter Léo Ferré.
Peck returned to France again in the 1960s, playing with Michel Legrand, Léo Ferré, André Hodeir and Duke Ellington.
He was known for his tall and slim silhouette (he was 1.90 m tall) and for his interpretations of songs by Charles Aznavour, Claude Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin, Jean-Claude Massoulier or Bernard Dimey.
Leo Tolstoy | Pope Leo XIII | Leo Gorcey | Leo Burnett | Leo Brouwer | Leo VI the Wise | Leo | Pope Leo X | Leo Durocher | Wadada Leo Smith | Ted Leo | Pope Leo I | Pope Leo IX | Melissa Leo | Leo Carrillo | Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | Leo Castelli | Leo Burnett Worldwide | San Leo | Leo Strauss | Leo Marks | Leo Laporte | Léo Ferré | Gianfranco Ferré | Leó Szilárd | Leo Slezak | Leo Frobenius | Leo Cárdenas | Pope Leo XII | Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center |
He is also a translator who has written accurate English translations of songs by Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Claude Nougaro, Barbara (Monique Serf), Bertolt Brecht and Wannes Van de Velde.
The most famous of the FTP-MOI's members was Missak Manouchian, and the FTP-MOI is widely known from the Affiche rouge, a German propaganda poster displaying the members of the FTP-MOI after their arrest at the end of 1943, whose aim was to stigmatise the presence of foreigners and Jews among the French Resistance; a poem by Louis Aragon, set to music and sung by Léo Ferré, deals with this story.
Léo Ferré, Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française and Raymond Saint-Paul Choir, Camille Maurane (the Poor-Loved), Michel Roux (the Double), Nadine Sautereau (the Woman), Jacques Petitjean (the Angel), 1957 (Odeon Records)