Genres Chanson Instruments Vocals Genre Chanson | Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter Website www.helene-martin.com Record label EPM Musique | |
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Years active 1956 (1956)–2009 (2009) Labels Cavalier
EPM Musique
Universal Albums Elégie à Pablo Neruda Similar Marc Ogeret, Francesca Solleville, Jacques Douai, Monique Morelli, Catherine Sauvage | ||
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Hélène Martin ([elɛn maʁtɛ̃], born in Paris, 1928) is a French singer and songwriter.
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Biography
Hélène Martin is the daughter of a university teacher (Sciences Po), and started singing in cabarets in the fifties. In 1962, she recorded poems by Jean Genet who encouraged her. Jean Vilar asked her to stage a show based on poems by René Char for the Festival d'Avignon, interpreted by her and Roger Blin, Francesca Solleville, Bachir Touré (1966).
She was a friend of many poets and writers, including Louis Aragon and Jean Giono. Surrealist poet Philippe Soupault published a book on her and her work.
She created a TV serie dedicated to poetry, Plain-Chant (1972). She also directed a TV movie after Jean Giono's novel Jean le Bleu (1979).
In 2009, aged 81, she gave a last performance at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
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Liberté femme
Je t'aime par les chemins noirs
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