6 Things to Know About Leny Escudero – Gala

Sad news revealed yesterday by the wife of the singer: Leny Escudero died at 82 years “as the result of acute respiratory failure.” That’s all there is to know about this talented artist, committed character

1 -. Leny Escudero was a pseudonym, his name was in fact Joaquim Escudero and was a native of Spain, Navarra region. He arrived in France in Mayenne, at the age of 7, when his parents, of gypsy origin and Spanish Republicans fled the civil war. The family moved later in the Belleville district in Paris, where Leny grows.

2 Before the artistic success that we know, Leny Escudero held several jobs, including laborer, or tile.

Leny Escudero 3- brilliant career could have turned short. In his first album, self-titled, released at Bel-Air in 1962, titles such as Ballade Sylvie or For a love affair propel the head of the parade hits. As if he did not care, he drops everything and goes to circumnavigate the world. In philanthropist warning, he built a school of hard in the bush of Benin. But success awaits him: on his return he resumed music and continues with the album A malypense in 1963 followed by twenty others

. 4 – committed Communist, Leny Escudero has always displayed its political colors and assumed his opinions. He did not hesitate to sing for example the demonstrators against the war in Algeria killed in Paris in February 1962 or for the dead of the Spanish Civil War.

Leny Escudero 5 was not only a singer and composer, he was also an actor. In addition to the many programs in which he participated, he played in several films and TV movies. We saw it in 1980 The woman cop Yves Boisset, Rouget the Poacher in 1989 The so-called the following year. More recently, it is on television that he had appeared in 1998 Dr Sylvestre and Louis La Brocante in 2002.

6 – Leny Escudero was also familiar letters. In addition to two books There are days like that published in 1988 and two volumes of The tree of my life Ten years later, he written two autobiographies. My life did not start in 2013, and The beginning, later the end due out this year