The committed artist Jean Ferrat died Saturday, March 13 at the age of 79 years. Serving all fighting for the fraternity, rebellion and the Communist ideal, it was also a mad poet of Aragon, he performed with skill. He devotes two albums in 1974 and 1995. He was the singer-songwriter and composer of some 200 songs.
Born December 26, 1930 at Vaucresson (Hauts-de-Seine), Jean Tenenbaum, a 11 years old when his father emigrated Russian Jew, was deported. The child is rescued by communist activists, he will never forget. At the Liberation, he left school to help his family, and became assistant chemist until 1954, when he spent his first audition in Paris cabarets. Jean Ferrat was married to singer Christine Sevre, died 1981.Il was awarded the Academy Charles Cros (1963) and the Grand Prize of the SACEM song (1994).

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