Leny Escudero, ciao bello – The World

Le Monde | 10/10/2015 at 8:20 • Updated 10/10/2015 at 9:31 | By Sylvain Siclier

On May 19, 1968, a general strike paralyzed France. In front of the Renault factory at Boulogne-Billancourt, symbol location, several singers came to a show of solidarity with the workers. Leny Escudero whose. The time when the latter, a former worker, was a star of the variety, including For a love affair, is not so far, the early 1960s that day is the committed singer, activist, who is present, whose words and melodies telling the fights and struggles. A status that will be his for most of his career, even though much of his repertoire leads to another place of poetry, tenderness and melancholy. Leny Escudero died Friday, October 9, “as the result of acute respiratory failure” said his wife in an announcement earlier this afternoon. He was 82 years old.

Born November 5, 1932, in Espinal, in northern Spain, Joaquim Leni Escudero arrived in France in early 1939, in Mayenne. His parents, Republican, fled Spain after the victory of the …