Lucienne Boyer

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Lucienne Boyer (1945)

Lucienne Boyer , actually Émilienne-Henriette Boyer, (born August 18, 1903 in Paris , † December 6, 1983 there ) was a French singer .

Live and act

Lucienne Boyer was born in the Montparnasse district of the 14th arrondissement of Paris. She lost her father in the First World War . To help her family, she had to work in a munitions factory, but was "discovered" as a singer at the age of thirteen. After brief attempts at the theater, she began to sing in cabarets in 1916/1917 , including at the Théâtre de l'Athénée , Concordia and l'Eldorado . She achieved her first success with the soldier songs Madelon and Le père la victoire . In 1927 she performed in a concert at the side of the famous singer Félix Mayol (1872-1941). The American producer Lee Shubert (1871-1953) immediately engaged her for appearances on Broadway in New York City , where she spent nine months. Even after this stay, she continued to return to appearances on Broadway. A record of her successful song “Parlez-moi d'amour” ( Tell me about love ) was made in 1930. With this song, written by Jean Lenoir in 1924 , she won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy . In 1939 she married the singer Jacques Pills (1906–1970), their daughter Jacqueline was born in 1941. She also became a singer and won the Grand Prix de l'Eurovision in 1960 . At the age of 73, Lucienne Boyer and her daughter performed in the Olympia Music Hall and various television shows. In 1955 she published an autobiography entitled La gosse de Paris .

Known songs

  • On trompe son mari (from the operetta "La petite Dame du train bleu", music by Georges van Parys, 1927)
  • Parlez-moi d'amour. Text and music: Jean Lenoir (1930)
  • Un amour comme le nôtre. (Text: Axel Farel. Music: Charles Borel-Clerc 1935)
  • Parti sans laisser d'address (J. Payrac - F. gardoni - P. Dudan 1940)
  • Berceuse (music and text: Bruno Coquatrix 1941)

Web links

literature

  • Brockhaus / Riemann: Musiklexikon in four volumes , Volume 1, p. 166, Atlantis Musikbuchverlag, 2001, ISBN 3-254-08396-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean Lenoir Biography ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at peermusic.fr (French), accessed January 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peermusic.fr
personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Lucienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyer, Émilienne-Henriette (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1983
Place of death Paris