Gérard Jaffrès (born 15 December 1956 in
Saint-Pol-de-Léon
Saint-Pol-de-Léon (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department in Brittany in north-western France, located on the coast.
It is noted for its 13th-century cathedral on the site of the original founded by Saint Paul Aurelian in the 6th cen ...
) is a French singer, writer and performer.
He started playing the guitar at the age of 15, playing mostly folk
repertoire
Repertory or repertoire () is the list or set of works a person or company is accustomed to performing. Whether the English or French spelling is used has no bearing, but it was the French word, with an accent on the first e, , that first took ho ...
(Alan Stivell,
Tri Yann
Tri Yann () is a French band from Nantes who play medieval folk rock music drawing on traditional Breton folk ballads.
The band was founded in 1969 by Jean Chocun, Jean-Paul Corbineau and Jean-Louis Jossic – all of whom remained members – ...
...) and rock music (
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical style has varied throughout their career. Originally for ...
,
Led Zeppelin
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...). In 1973, he joined
Burt Blanca's band. He stayed with it for 11 years as a bass player. The same year, he moved to Belgium, his current home.
Jaffrès started a solo career in 1985, recording ten discs with
gramophone record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The g ...
s. He has published a new album every two years since 1991.
Jaffrès' music is a blend of
Celtic music
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celts (modern), Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations). It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and ...
and rock'n'roll/
folk
Folk or Folks may refer to:
Sociology
*Nation
*People
* Folklore
** Folk art
** Folk dance
** Folk hero
** Folk horror
** Folk music
*** Folk metal
*** Folk punk
*** Folk rock
** Folk religion
* Folk taxonomy
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Fo ...
which he uses to depict the landscape of
Brittany
Brittany ( ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duch ...
and tell legends from the area of
Leon
Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to:
Places
Europe
* León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León
* Province of León, Spain
* Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...
(North Finistère). His texts sometimes mix
Breton
Breton most often refers to:
*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
**Breton people
**Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
**Gale ...
and French.
Telegramme's article
, French newspaper, 3 September 2004
Discography
* ''Capitaine de Galère'', 1991
* ''Les Soldats de Pierre'', 1993
*''Kérichen 72'', 1995
*''Les Années Baluches'', 1997
*''Au Creux de ma Terre'', 1999
*''Le Fou de Bassan'', 2001
*''Viens dans ma maison'', 2003
*''Le Beau Voyage'', 2005
*''Mon Pays t'attend'', 2007
*''Nos Premières Années'', 2008
*''Gérard Jaffrès En Public'', 2010 (Live CD DVD)
*''Mystérieuses Landes'', 2012
*''Je sais d'où je viens'', 2016
*''2020'', 2020
References
External links
Gérard Jaffrès official web site
Gerard Jaffrès weblink
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1956 births
Living people
People from Saint-Pol-de-Léon
French male singers
French composers
French male composers
Celtic rock music
Breton musicians
French rock singers