Graeme Allwright

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Graeme Allwright at a concert at the Festival de Cornouaille , July 2012

Graeme Allwright (born November 7, 1926 in Wellington , New Zealand , † February 16, 2020 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames , France ) was a French singer , author , composer , translator and poet . He lived in Paris and performed there frequently.

life and work

Concert 1978

While studying drama in London , Allwright fell in love with the niece of a theater director; he turned down an offer from the Royal Shakespeare Company , moved with her to Burgundy, France , and started a family.

Allwright's adaptations , translations and interpretations of many American and English folk songs by singers such as Pete Seeger , Bob Dylan , Tom Paxton and Woody Guthrie are very well known and popular in France and are part of the national “ chanson inheritance”. With the permission and support of the Canadian folk bard Leonard Cohen, he translated his superhit Suzanne into French and sang it himself.

As part of his commitment to the fight of the local peasant population against the expansion of a military training area on the Causse du Larzac plateau in the 1970s, he composed a song that was addressed personally and directly to the then French Prime Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ; In 2005 he presented a pacifist rewrite of the French national anthem Marseillaise .

swell

Deutschlandfunk - “Radionacht”: Folk and song stories , Clarisse Cossais: Magier des Chansons - Graeme Allwright. A French protest singer with New Zealand roots

Individual evidence

↑ Chart sources: FR
↑ Loutre. In: seenthis.net. February 16, 2020, accessed on February 16, 2020 (French).
^ La Marseillaise de Graeme Allwright et Sylvie Dien. In: asso.fr. Retrieved on February 16, 2020 (French, mp3 audio file , 1.7 MB, 1:28 minutes).

personal data
SURNAME	Allwright, Graeme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French singer, author, composer, translator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wellington , New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 2020
Place of death	Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames , France

[charts-1] Chart sources: FR

[2] Loutre. In: seenthis.net. February 16, 2020, accessed on February 16, 2020 (French).

[mga.asso.fr-3] La Marseillaise de Graeme Allwright et Sylvie Dien. In: asso.fr. Retrieved on February 16, 2020 (French, mp3 audio file , 1.7 MB, 1:28 minutes).