Colette Magny

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Colette Magny

Colette Magny (born October 31, 1926 in Paris , † June 12, 1997 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue ) was a French singer and songwriter .

Live and act

Magny worked as a foreign language secretary for the OECD from 1948 to 1964 . She took guitar lessons from Claude Luter and also performed as a blues singer before she pursued a career as a chanson singer and had her first hit with Melocoton in 1963 . Politicized by the Algerian war , she wrote protest songs like Le Mal de Vivre , which the ORTF did not broadcast. This was followed by albums like Vietnam 67 , on which she continued to take a political stance. On her album Feu et rythme , which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy , she worked with a contemporary ensemble as well as with the free jazzers Beb Guérin and Barre Phillips . These and other free jazz musicians such as François Tusques or Noel McGhie were also active on the follow-up album Repression , which dealt with censorship and political repression. On the album Thanakan she dealt with the lyrics of Antonin Artaud . In the last years of life it could hardly appear due to illness.

In 1984 she was awarded the Tenco Prize .

Discography

  • Des classiques du Jazz with Gilles Thibaut - 1958
  • Melocoton / Basin street blues, etc ... - CBS - 1963
  • La rose de Rilke, etc ... - CBS - 1964
  • Quatre chansons américaines, V. Hugo, etc ... - CBS - 1965
  • Max Jacob, Tristan Tzara, V. Hugo - CBS - 1965
  • Avec, poème sur structure musicale de André Almuro - Mouloudji / Festival - 1966
  • Frappe ton cœur - Le Chant du Monde - 1964
  • Viêt Nam 67 - Le Chant du Monde - 1967
  • Magny 68-69 - Le Chant du Monde - 1968
  • Feu et rythme - Le Chant du Monde - 1970
  • Répression - Le Chant du Monde - 1972
  • Transit with the Free Jazz Workshop - Le Chant du Monde - 1974
  • Un peuple crève - Le Chant du Monde - with Maxime Le Forestier and Mara - 1975
  • Visage-Village - Le Chant du Monde - with Lino Léonardi and the Dharma Quintet - 1976
  • Colette Magny, je veux chaânter - Le Chant du Monde - 1979
  • Thanakan - Le Chant du Monde - 1980
  • Sylvie Dubal: cahier d'une tortue - Le chant du Monde - 1980
  • Chansons pour Titine - Le Chant du Monde - 1984
  • Kevork ou le délit d'errance - Colette Magny Promotion / Scalen - 1989
  • Blues - 2000 - CD

literature

  • Sylvie Vadureau: Colette Magny Citoyenne-Blues , Les Éditions Mutine, 1996, ISBN 2-911573-00-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Feu et rythme (www.sefronia.com)
personal data
SURNAME Magny, Colette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1997
Place of death Villefranche-de-Rouergue