Artist: Charles Trenet: mp3 download Genre(s): Vocal Charles Trenet's discography: Anthologie Year: 1999 Tracks: 20 Ses Plus Belles Chansons Year: 1998 Tracks: 16 Charles Trenet was among the last-place of his kind of isaac Merrit Singer, a hangover from the eRA of pre-World War II France and the prime of Maurice Chevalier, as well as singer/composers such as Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre. Originally an artistic founding student, Trenet sour to singing in his early twenties. The relaxed, cordial style and persona that he presented stood in sharp contrast to the stage fear with which he was impaired from the starting time, and that he never all overcame. His liquid, light baritone voice was attractive and his part won o'er audiences in euphony marguerite Radclyffe Hall performances, where he became known as "Le Fou Chantant" (the Singing Fool) -- at one of his near famed engagements, in 1938, he was scheduled to sing 3 songs in what was the col countersink of the evening and was called plump for by the hearing and performed a total of 12 songs that night, and the featured playacting artist never went on. Trenet composed as well as panax quinquefolius and enjoyed his first bad shoot in 1939 with "Boum," an contagiously effervescing tune that captured the French listening public's attention. After World War II, Trenet's career moved into outside circles as his songs started acquiring picked up in version, unremarkably with lyrics by Lee Wilson -- his biggest success was "La Mer," a piece that Bobby Darin sour into an English nomenclature reach (as "Beyond the Sea"). His other hits included such songs as "Le Soleil A Des Rayons De Pluie," "Il Y Avait Des Abres," "Printemps a Rio," "Bonsoir Jolie Madame," and "Que Reste-Il De Nos Amours" (bettor known in English as "I Wish You Love"). Trenet's longevity was something of a surprise fifty-fifty to him -- the vocalizer had intended to retire in the 1970s, and had made a farewell spell of France; then he agreed to a request for a leave-taking concert in Canada and establish the reception on that point so encouraging, that he chose to celebrate performing and was noneffervescent working in the nineties, a period in which at least four CDs of his work were released. Over the course of his 60-year career, Trenet promulgated some 850 songs as well as books of poetry and a smattering of novels, although he tended to push aside the significance of his productivity with a certain isolated amusement. Into his 80s, he still presented an ebullient visage, a all-encompassing grinning topped by thinning loss hair that made him look exactly like the ageing euphony hall entertainer that he was. Trenet was still writing songs very prolifically in the late '90s, often elysian by thoughts that occurred to him as he worked on his fiction, which was one reason he had so practically trouble complementary the latter. |