Étienne Roda-Gil
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Étienne Roda-Gil (1 August 1941 in Septfonds, Tarn-et-Garonne, France – 31 May 2004 in Paris) was a songwriter and screenwriter. He was an anarchist and an anarcho-syndicalist.[1]
Biography
Roda-Gil was the son of a Spanish republican from Catalonia who had come as a refugee to France. After university studies, he met singer Julien Clerc in a café in Paris's Latin Quarter in 1968, and began a fruitful collaboration which was broken off in 1980. Clerc and Roda-Gil did, however, collaborate on the album Utile in 1992, which won the prix Vincent-Scotto.
In 1979, he collaborated with Gérard Lenorman on the album Boulevard de l'océan. Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Hallyday, Claude François, Juliette Gréco, Barbara and Louis Bertignac are other singers who have interpreted his songs.
Roda-Gil's book La Porte marine was published through Éditions du Seuil and his adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot for director Andrzej Żuławski became the 1985 film L'amour braque. In 1983 he collaborated with singer and songwriter Riccardo Cocciante to the lyrics of his album Sincerità (tr.: Sincerity). [citation needed]
He approached Roger Waters in 1987 to set his libretto (co-written by his wife), Ça Ira, to music. Despite the initial version having been completed and recorded by the end of 1988 and receiving an endorsement from then-French president François Mitterrand, the opera did not receive a performance until 2005, after Roda-Gil's death. [citation needed]
In 1989, he received the grand prix of songwriting from Sacem (La Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique).
Family
Roda-Gil was married to painter Nadine Delahaye until her death in 1990. [citation needed]
References
- ^ Dupuy, Rolf (5 September 2016), "RODA GIL Etienne [Esteve]", Dictionnaire des anarchistes (in French), Paris: Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier, retrieved 19 March 2022
External links
- (in French) Official site
- (in French) Illustrated biography and discography
- Use dmy dates from May 2011
- 1941 births
- 2004 deaths
- Anarcho-syndicalists
- People from Montauban
- French songwriters
- Male songwriters
- French male screenwriters
- French anarchists
- French people of Spanish descent
- French lyricists
- French syndicalists
- Deaths from cerebrovascular disease
- Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery
- 20th-century French screenwriters
- 20th-century French male writers