Guy Béart

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Guy Béart , originally Guy Béhart-Hasson (born July 16, 1930 in Cairo , † September 16, 2015 in Garches , Hauts-de-Seine department , France ), was a French engineer , chansonnier , composer and actor .

Life

Guy Béart was the son of an auditor and management consultant . He spent his childhood in France, Greece, Mexico and Egypt. His family was in Lebanon between the ages of ten and seventeen . It was there that he became interested in music. In 1947 he enrolled at the École Nationale de Musique in Paris to learn the violin and mandolin. At the same time he also studied engineering at the Paris elite university École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées . When Bart's father died in 1952, he wanted to support his mother and sister and worked in an engineering office and on construction sites. Among other things, he led the construction of a bridge near Nancy .

During his free time he composed chansons and from 1954 appeared in the Parisian cabarets on the Rive Gauche . He began to sing at Colombe and later at Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier . His songs are idiosyncratic, sensitive and tender. Béart was discovered by the well-known music producer Jacques Canetti . With the support of his fellow musician Boris Vian , he was able to publish his own album, which won the prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque français in 1958 . His best-known works include the chansons Bal chez Temporel , Il n'y a plus d'après , Poste restante , Laura , L'Agent double , L'Eau Vive , L'Espérance Folle , Le Chapeau , Les Couleurs du Temps and À Amsterdam .

Guy Béart on a drawing by Michel Bourdais, made in July 1966 during the television program Bienvenue chez Guy Béart

The public-shy Béart suffered from stage fright during his stage appearances and switched to television in 1963 as a presenter for the music program Bienvenue chez Guy Béart , in which singers and musicians of many genres appeared, including Duke Ellington and Yves Montand . As a result, Béart remained present in public and was able to work and perform as a singer again after his television career ended in 1970. Despite working in Paris, he decided to live in the country with his family and lived in a former farm in Provence in Gassin , Var department . He wanted to shield his children from the distractions of big city life and from television too.

After a long illness that did not allow him to perform, he returned in 1985 with the chanson Demain je recommence , a title full of hope and joie de vivre.

In 1994 Guy Béart was awarded the large medal (médaille de vermeil) for French chanson by the Académie française for his life's work .

Of his five children with his wife Geneviève Galéa, formerly mannequin and actress, film and theater actress was Emmanuelle Béart best known.

Works

  • Guy Béart: Chansons, poèmes. F. Nathan, Paris 1976
  • Guy Béart: Couleurs et colères du temps. L'intégrale des poèmes et chansons. Textes de présentation de Jean-Louis Barrault , Pierre Seghers, Yvan Audouard, Hervé Bazin etc. Seghers, Paris 1976, 279 pp.
  • Guy Béart: L'Espérance folle. R. Laffont, Paris 1987, 406 pp.

Film music (selection)

  • 1958: When the tide comes (L'eau vive)
  • 1962: The great scam (La gamberge)
  • 1964: Oscar has a loose screw (Un drôle de caïd)

literature

  • Guy Béart, Jean-Paul Liégeois: Le grand chambardement: intégrales des chansons et poèmes . Cherche midi, Paris, 2013, ISBN 978-2-7491-2459-9
  • Gérard Andrien (Ed.): Discographie de Guy Béart. Liege, 1989
  • Guy Silva: Avec les bouquinistes des quais de Paris. With a foreword by Guy Béart. Le Castor astral, Bordeaux 2000, ISBN 2-85920-412-1

Web links

Commons : Guy Béart  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Guy Beart: Mort du monumental chanteur, père d'Emmanuelle. In: purepeople.com , September 16, 2015, accessed September 16, 2015 (French).