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3 unusual facts about Léo Ferré


Metamec

Métamec is the name of a posthumous album and a long poem by French singer-songwriter Léo Ferré.

Nat Peck

Peck returned to France again in the 1960s, playing with Michel Legrand, Léo Ferré, André Hodeir and Duke Ellington.

Philippe Clay

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.


Des de Moor

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.

Main-d'œuvre immigrée

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.


see also

La Chanson du mal-aimé

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)