Mimi Perrin

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Jeannine "Mimi" Perrin (born February 2, 1926 in Paris ; † November 16, 2010 there ) was a French jazz musician (vocals, piano).

Life

As a child and adolescent, Perrin received private musical lessons and initially studied English . She first appeared in jazz clubs as a pianist with her own trio. Between 1956 and 1958 she was a member of Blossom Dearie's vocal group Blue Stars of France , after which she worked in the studios as a background singer. In 1959 Perrin put together her vocal sextet Les Double Six , to which u. a. Louis and Monique Aldebert , Monique and Roger Guérin , Christiane Legrand , Ward Swingle , Eddy Louiss and Bernard Lubat . The band name alluded to the fact that the group partially doubled in the studio with the help of the overdubbing technique and sang twelve-part sentences. The group based their vocalises on the one hand on King Pleasure , on the other hand on Lambert , Hendricks & Ross and was very successful in the early 1960s. Les Double Six completed several European tours, also appeared in North America, and recorded records with Quincy Jones and then with Dizzy Gillespie , but also with Ray Charles . Perrin was the group's leader and main soloist and established herself as "one of the great jazz singers" with her solo on John Coltrane's title Naima . She also wrote "all of the highly bizarre science fiction-inspired texts". The Swingle Singers eventually emerged from their ensemble when Perrin rejected the fusion of baroque and jazz operated by Ward Swingle. A follow-up group founded in 1966 could not build on the earlier successes.

She later translated the biographies of Nina Simone , Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones.

Mimi Perrin died in November 2010 at the age of 84.

Discography (selection)

  • Les Double Six meet Quincy Jones - Les Double Six (1961-62)
  • Dizzy Gillespie & The Double Six of Paris (1963)
  • The Double Six Of Paris sing Ray Charles (1964)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death notification at tsfjazz.com ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2011 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. , (accessed November 17, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsfjazz.com
  2. ↑ Martin Kunzler: Jazz Lexicon. , P. 1003.
  3. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal: Singt die Geschichte des Jazz , hjs-jazz.de, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Perrin, Mimi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perrin, Jeannine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz singer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2010
Place of death Paris