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Hélène Martin

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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
  
CavalierEPM MusiqueUniversal

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

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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).

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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.

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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.

Discography

Hélène Martin Hlne Martin discographie

  • 1996: Hélène Martin chante les poètes, EPM Musique. Songs recorded 1962-1983, with Laurent Terzieff.
  • 2000: La Douceur du bagne, book & CD, EPM/Le Castor astral
  • 2002: Le Condamné à mort, sung by Marc Ogeret, music Hélène Martin, recorded 1970, EPM "poètes et chansons".
  • 2003: Lucienne Desnoues, reissue, EPM "poètes et chansons"
  • 2006: Jean Genet, Un chant d'amour, Buda Musique, with Richard Armstrong.
  • 2006: Chansons pour les enfants, EPM Musique, 2006.
  • 2006: Va savoir, EPM
  • 2007: Pablo Neruda, de la poésie à la lutte. Includes L'Elégie à Pablo Neruda sung by Hélène Martin.
  • 2007: Terres mutilées followed by Dans mon pays, poems by René Char, 1968, reissue, EPM "Poésie".
  • 2008: Journal d'une voix, Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque.
  • 2009-2010: Voyage en Hélénie, 13-CD case.

    • Awards

  • 1961: Grand Prix du Disque
  • 1967: Prix de l'Humour noir.
  • 2009: Prix Jacques Douai

    • Hélène Martin Hlne Martin Le condamn mort YouTube

    Songs

    Liberté femme
    Je t'aime par les chemins noirs
    Ronsard 58

    References

    Hélène Martin Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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