Lys Gauty

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Lys Gauty 1934

Lys Gauty (actually Alice Bonnefoux Gauthier ; born February 2, 1900 in Levallois-Perret near Paris, † January 2, 1994 in Cap-d'Ail ) was a French chanson singer and actress . She had her heyday as a singer in the 1930s and 1940s. In the films Jour de noces (1930) and La goualeuse (1938) she also gained experience as an actress.

Life

Alice Gauthier came from a simple family background. Her father was a mechanic, her mother a seamstress. After training as a tailor and typewriting course, she worked as a saleswoman in a department store as a young girl, and later as a hatter's assistant. She took singing lessons from what her parents left with her leftover wages.

Even when she was in school, her voice was remarkable. In 1922 she received classical musical training from Nelson Fyscher in Paris and began her career as a singer in variety shows with the film composer Georges van Parys , who accompanied her on the piano. In 1925 Lys Gauty sang Olympia in the Paris Music Hall . In the same year she married the twelve years older Swiss composer Gaston Groener, whose chansons she successfully performed at the Parisian Théâtre de Dix heures. The first recordings were made in Belgium in 1928.

1930 Lys Gauty made her debut in the 34-minute long sound film Jour de noces (German wedding day ) by Maurice Gleize. She made a second experience with the film in 1938 when she took over the title role in La goualeuse ( Eng . The Mocker ) from Fernand Rivers.

In 1934 she denounced Israel in her chanson , va-t-en! (dt. Israel , disappear! ) the anti-Semitism that was growing in those days . But her greatest success in 1933 was the French version of the Italian song Parliamen d'amore Mariu , sung by Vittorio De Sica , with the title Le chaland qui passe ( The river boat passes by ). In 1937 she parodied herself with the humorous song Le chaland qui reste .

Further stations in her life were her appearances in the cabarets La Boîte à Matelots, La Folie de Lys Gauty, in the Bobino in 1932/33 , in 1934 on the Alhambra music stage and in other Parisian establishments. For her interpretations of the barabara song and the song of the pirate jenny from the Threepenny Opera , she received the Grand Prix du Disque record award in 1933. In 1934/35 she was elected queen of the Paris six-day race at the Vélodrome d'Hiver .

She was also known for the long white dresses she wore to her concerts. Another distinctive feature was that she was one of the first performers to sing both literary chansons and popular melodies. Her older artist colleague Marie-Louise Damien , known by the stage name Damia, accused Lys Gauty of not being melodramatic enough and referred to her as "la sous-préfète" ("sub-prefectess"). Lys Gauty was also known and appreciated in the Netherlands and Great Britain. In 1939 she began a tour of South America.

After the liberation of France in 1944, she was accused of singing on the radio station Radio Paris controlled by the Vichy regime and on a tour organized by the National Socialist organization Kraft durch Freude with the singer Marguerite Boulc'h and the actor Raymond Souplex in Germany to have participated and to have appeared before the workers of the Service du travail obligatoire and prisoners from the main camps . In 1946 she returned to the Paris Alhambra with new programs, but she was unable to build on her pre-war successes. In 1947 she divorced her husband Léo Ferré , who had been her pianist for a while. In 1950 she played and sang in the operetta Ma Goualeuse at the Casino Montparnasse . At that time she also ran the Bagnères-de-Luchon casino and founded the Festival de la Voix (Festival of the Voice). In 1953 she withdrew from the Paris scene and became director of a cabaret in the Nice area , where she also founded a singing school. She later took over the management of a real estate agency in Monte Carlo.

Lys Gauty died in 1994. She was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé, Saône-et-Loire department , where she owned and mostly resided a house.

Chansons

1928

  • Paradis du rêve (Richepin-Fyscher)
  • Haine d'amour (Sureau-Bellet)
  • Vendetta (Nazelles-Desmoulins-Penso)
  • La Tour Saint-Jacques
  • Because I Know You're Mine
  • Tu sais (Berys-Lenoir-Walter-Ervande)

1930

  • La legend des grains de beauté (Boyer-Archambaud)
  • Une femme (Blemont-Heine-Lazzari)
  • Mais quand c'est toi
  • Frileuse
  • Déjà
  • Le Chaland qui passe (1933), (CABixio-A.de Badet) in the film Atalante included

1932

  • Valparaiso
  • Une Viennoise
  • Un coup de riquiqui
  • J'aime tes grands yeux
  • Chant de Barbara ( Kurt Weill -Mauprey)
  • La Fiancée du pirate (Kurt Weill-Mauprey)
  • L'amour qui passe
  • Qui j'aime
  • Caramba
  • Tu m'as fait tant souffrir
  • Prends-moi dans tes bras
  • Ma chérie
  • Coup de soleil
  • Si je vous tutoie

1933

  • J'aime tes grands yeux
  • Les marins de Surcouf
  • Le piano mécanique
  • Hot voodoo
  • J'ai tout trouvé près de toi
  • Je te regarde dormir
  • bye Bye
  • Départ (Groener-Tranchant)
  • La Ballade du cordonnier (Tranchant)
  • C'est le plaisir que j'aime
  • Mon coeur est léger
  • Loin de toi
  • Les deux guitares
  • La prière du pauvre homme
  • Viens ou L'amour est un caprice
  • À Paris dans chaque faubourg ( Maurice Jaubert - René Clair ), chanson in film 14 Juillet by René Clair

1934

  • Le Bistro du port
  • Complainte désabusée
  • Rêve d'amour
  • nostalgia
  • Libre de moi
  • Israel va-t-en
  • Chanson de l'escadrille ( Arthur Honegger - Joseph Kessel )
  • La Complainte de la Seine (Kurt Weill-Maurice Magre)
  • Je ne t'aime pas (Kurt Weill-Maurice Magre)
  • Un soir d'hiver ... tard (Celerier-Pradier)
  • Le moulin qui jase (Badet-Bols)
  • La Mary Salope
  • L'amour tel qu'on le parle
  • Dans tes bras doucement
  • Chanson du cul de jatte
  • L'auto du charbonnier
  • Moi et l'Impératrice
  • Pour toi je veux rever
  • Les larmes

1935

  • Ca sent la friture
  • Chéri dis-moi je t'aime (Bos)
  • La belle escale
  • Je t'aime, c'est tout
  • Mirages
  • Un jour de différence
  • Quel beau dimanche! ( Charles Trenet -Groener-Heim)
  • Vieille ballad
  • Au revoir, bon voyage
  • obsession
  • La chanson du brave homme
  • exile
  • J'attends un navire (Kurt Weill- Jacques Deval )
  • Sammy de la Jamaïque (Goer-Michel Vaucaire)

1936

  • Espoir (Wal-Berg-Henneve)
  • Sur les bords de la Seine
  • J'ai trouvé le bonheur
  • Une chanson d'amour
  • Certitude
  • Colin Maillard
  • La Marie-Louise
  • Manola

1937

  • Qu'importe si tu pars
  • En souvenir des dimanches
  • Sous l'enseigne lumineuse
  • Souvenir de bal
  • Allons-nous promener
  • Tes bras
  • Presques
  • Au revoir et adieu
  • Croyez-moi
  • Conversation tango
  • Le chaland qui reste
  • Sans y penser
  • L'heure du rêve
  • A l'aventure

1938

  • Gentiment
  • Le Bassin de la Villette (Goer-Vaucaire)
  • Y'a de l'amour dans mon coeur
  • Une femme, un accordéon, un caboulot
  • Ce soir ou bien jamais
  • J'ai juré de t'aimer toujours
  • Souviens-toi de ce dimanche
  • Dis-moi pourquoi? ( Joseph Kosma -Vaucaire-Groener) and Le bonheur est entré dans mon coeur from the film La Goualeuse by Fernand Rivers

1939

  • La valse au village
  • Amour en mineur
  • Ne voyez-vous pas?
  • Tu sais pour qui je chante
  • La rosière du regiment
  • La belle marinière
  • Echanges (Mireille Hartuch-René Dorin)

1940

  • J'écoute la pluie
  • Pour vous, Michina
  • On me prend pour un ange
  • Les petits pavés
  • La chanson de Nina
  • Les escargots qui vont à l'enterrement ( Jacques Prévert -Joseph Kosma)

1941

  • Fumée sur le toit
  • Revenir
  • La valse de toujours
  • Ce jour-là

1942

  • Prière au vent du soir
  • On en fait vite le tour
  • Aujourd'hui, bal de nuit
  • Prière au vent du soir
  • Pas grand-chose

1943

1944

  • Echoes

1946

  • La complainte du corsaire
  • En écoutant mon coeur chanter
  • A petit bouquet de violettes
  • La chanson du bonheur
  • Moons
  • La plus belle chanson

1949

  • Te voyo name
  • Mon caboulot

1950

  • Au fil de la Seine
  • Comme un air d'accordéon

1951

  • Moi j'aime ça
  • Pays perdu
  • Mon coeur pleure pour vous
  • Y'a tant d'amour

Without year

  • Avec sa pomme
  • Mon coeur est fait pour t'aimer
  • Infidèle
  • Rêver! ..
  • La garce
  • Le bonheur n'est plus un rêve
  • Suzon
  • La lettre d'un bleu

Audio sample

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  • Booklet of the CD Lys Gauty, collection Les voix d'or , published by Marianne Melodie.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: Lys Gauty. In: The Independent of January 27, 1994
  2. ↑ La vie culturelle à Saint-Étienne pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale (1939–1944) , Blandine Devun, ed. Université Saint-Etienne, 2005
  3. ↑ La vie musicale sous Vichy , Myriam Chimènes, Josette Alviset, ed. Complexe, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Gauty, Lys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gauthier, Alice (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chanson singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Levallois-Perret
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1994
Place of death Cap d'Ail