Pierre Perret (born 9 July 1934 in
Castelsarrasin
Castelsarrasin (; oc, Los Sarrasins) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in Occitanie region of France. The inhabitants are called ''Castelsarrasinois''. It is the second most populous commune in Tarn-et-Garonne after Montauban. I ...
,
Tarn-et-Garonne
Tarn-et-Garonne (; oc, Tarn e Garona ) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. It is traversed by the rivers Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its name. The area was originally part of the former provinces of Quercy and ...
) is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of
Nangis
Nangis () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Nangis station has rail connections to Provins, Longueville and Paris.
Coat of arms
Azure with six argent roundels.
Demographics
T ...
.
Biography
He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he learned to work with jargon and slang.
At the age of 14 he signed up to the ''conservatoire de musique de
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and fr ...
'' and to a dramatic arts institute. But he wasn't admitted to the
because he had some problems with military justice during his
military service
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Some nations (e.g., Mexico) require ...
.
['' Sax, ]Mule
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& Co'', Jean-Pierre Thiollet
Jean-Pierre Thiollet (; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist.
Primarily living in Paris, he is the author of numerous books and one of the national leaders of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CEDI), a ...
, H & D, Paris, 2004, p. 56-57. In the meantime, he set up his first band of four musicians in his own name, with whom he played at events throughout the region. In 1957, he was snapped up by
Eddie Barclay
Édouard Ruault (26 January 1921 – 13 May 2005), better known as Eddie Barclay, was a French music producer whose singers included Jacques Brel, Dalida and Charles Aznavour. He founded record label Barclay.
Life
Ruault, the son of a ca ...
who signed him on. It was in the studio of Barclay where he met his future wife, Simone Mazaltarim.
In 1958, Perret carried on touring round Parisian cabaret bars and crossed France and Africa as a part of the American group,
The Platters
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. In November that year, a
pleurisy
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forced him to take two years off in a
sanatorium
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.
A master of the subtleties of the French language and French slang (he even rewrote some of
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Euro ...
's fables), his songs are often cheeky (for example ''Le zizi'' (''The willy''), asking questions in a seemingly naive child's tone, but has written more serious political songs, such as ''La bête est revenue'', ''La petite kurde'', ''Vert de Colère'' or ''Lily''.
In 1995, he recorded in duet with
Sophie Darel the French song ''
Maître Pierre'' for the album ''C'était les Années Bleues''.
He participated in the committee for the simplification of the administrative language (COSLA).
Discography
Albums
;Studio albums
*1957 : ''Moi j'attends Adèle''
*1958 : ''1''
(dont 5 titres de l'album précédent)
*1960 : ''Joséphine''
*1964 : ''Le Tord-Boyaux''
*1965 : ''Mon Petit Amour''
*1968 : ''Enregistré en public à L'Olympia''
*1970 : ''Cuvée 71''
*1971 : ''La Cage aux Oiseaux''
*1973 : ''Le Plombier''
*1973 : ''En public''
*1974 : ''Le Zizi''
*1976 : ''Celui d'Alice''
*1977 : ''Lily''
*1979 : ''Mon P'tit Loup''
*1979 : ''À Bobino''
*1981 : ''C'est l'Printemps !''
*1983 : ''Comment c'est la Chine ?''
*1984 : ''Bobino 84''
(double album)
*1986 : ''Irène !''
*1987 : ''Chansons buissonnières (Interdit aux plus de 12 ans)''
(with ''Chanson de la bande à B.D.'')
*1987 : ''Pierrot à l'Olympia''
(double album)
*1989 : ''Ce soir c'est fête – Coeur cabossé''
*1992 : ''Bercy Madeleine''
*1994 : ''Récital du Casino de Paris''
(double CD)
*1995: ''Chante 20 fables inspirées de Jean de La Fontaine – Versions Pierrot''
*1995 : ''Chansons Éroticoquines''
(rereleased in 1999 with 4 new bonus tracks)
*1997 : ''Casino de Paris''
(double CD)
*1998 : ''La Bête est Revenue''
*2002 : ''Çui-là''
*2005 : ''Live au Casino de Paris''
(CD + DVD)
*2006 : ''Mélangez-vous''
*2007 : ''Le Plaisir des Dieux – Anthologie de la chanson paillarde''
*2008 : ''Les Dieux Paillards''
(double CD)
*2010 : ''La Femme Grillagée''
*2014 : ''Drôle de poésie!''
*2015 : ''Mes femmes''
;Compilation albums
*1967 : ''Les deux visages de Pierre Perret''
(compilation + 3 new tracks including "Les postières" with vocals by Nicole Croisille)
*1975 : ''15 ans de chansons''
(6 albums set, 72 tracks including 39 rerecorded in 1975)
*1994 : ''Pierrot l'intégrale''
(9 CDs for period 1970–1992, with 5 new tracks of the year 1992)
*2007 : ''50 ans de chansons (à l'Olympia)''
(2 CDs including 38 live tracks + DVD)
*2011 : ''L'intégrale''
(29 CDs + 1 DVD)
*2013 : ''L'âge de Pierre'' (3 CDs)
Songs
*1963: "Le tord boyaux"
*1963: "La corrida"
*1963: "Pépé la jactance"
*1966: "Les jolies colonies de vacances"
*1967: "Tonton Cristobal"
*1967: "Marcel"
*1967: "Mimi la douce"
*1967: "Blanche"
*1970: "Fillette le bonheur c'est toujours pour demain"
*1971: "Dépêche-toi mon amour"
*1971: "La cage aux oiseaux"
*1971: "La grande ourse"
*1971: "Ma femme"
*1971: "Olga"
*1973: "Françouèse"
*1974: "À poil:"
*1974: "Le Zizi"
*1974: "L'infidèle"
*1974: "Ma p'tite Julia"
*1976: "Ma nouvelle adresse"
*1976: "Vaisselle cassée"
*1977: "Lily"
*1977: "Au Café du Canal"
*1979: "Estelle"
*1979: "L'hôpital"
*1979: "Mon p'tit loup"
*1981: "Y'a cinquante gosses dans l'escalier"
*1986: "Nos amies les bêtes"
*1989: "Riz pilé"
*1992: "Bercy Madeleine"
*1992: "La petite Kurde"
*1998: "La bête est revenue"
*2011: "La femme grillagee"
Books
* 1982: ''Le Petit Perret illustré par l'exemple'' (dictionnaire de l’argot); Livre de Poche, nouvelle édition, 1985
* 1992: ''Laissez chanter le petit'' (biographie)
* 1996: ''La cuisine de ma femme''
* 2000: ''Anthologie de la poésie érotique''
* 2003: ''Le parler des métiers'' (vocabulaire de 145 professions)
* 2005: ''Le Café du Pont : Parfums d'enfance'' (autobiographie)
* 2007: ''Les Petits Métiers d’Atget à Willy Ronis'', éditions Hoëbeke
* 2007: ''Le Perret gourmand'', éditions Le cherche midi
* 2008: ''A capella'', éditions Le cherche midi
Television
"Capitaine Marleau", French television crime drama series;
(2018, Season 1 Episode 12, 23 October, "Double Jeu", "Double Dealing", as Monsieur Pellison); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitaine_Marleau
References
External links
*
Official siteLe Café du Pont (2010) biographical film at the IMDB.
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1934 births
Living people
People from Castelsarrasin
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
20th-century French male singers
21st-century French male singers