romantic and rebellious, singer and composer Leny Escudero, who became famous in 1960 with her ballad “For a love affair” but whose repertoire is mainly marked by the denunciation of injustice, died on Friday at age 82.
His real name Joaquim Escudero, the artist died “as the result of acute respiratory failure,” said his wife told AFP.
With his long hair falling to his shoulders, his emaciated face and his black jacket, his proud maverick, communist at heart, boasted of having “sometimes made concessions but never compromise. “
Able to refuse lucrative galas to go build a hospital in Dahomey or a TV show to support a strike cameramen, this tireless activist has never fully accepted codes of show business.
He also wrote songs like “A malypense”, “Living for ideas”, “Bohemian”, “Little Mother”, “The unwelcome”, “The century of refugees” or “The dunce “.
” Sons of Spanish Republicans, son of refugees, he could sing beautifully this desire of freedom that lives in the heart of man, “said the Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin in a statement.
He was born in Espinal, in the Spanish province of Navarre, November 5, 1932 before her parents leave the country ravaged by civil war in 1939, to find refuge in Mayenne, then in Paris.
It grows in the popular neighborhood of Belleville, learning to read at school of the Republic, to which he dedicates eternal gratitude for giving him the instruction which his parents were deprived. After his graduation certificate, the young Leny exerts various trades.
In 1962, his career as singer-songwriter began beating drum. His first attempt is a master stroke: “For a love affair” is a tube. This song always defends it (“it’s the story of my first love, I do not see why I would deny my first love,” he said) has become a classic.
In this period dominated by rock and yéyés, television becomes infatuated this different artist, the serious and sincere voice, as enthusiastic on stage and in life.
“Those who have encouraged me, this is my concierge who told me Leny + + I love your voice, the bistro owner who gave me credit, “said the friend Georges Brassens, his idol, and Léo Ferré
-. ‘ I’m not on the radio ‘-
The success does not retain provided the artist who chooses to leave for South America. It passes through Paris, the time to record new songs, and then began a world tour that will last five years with wife and children, first from the comfort of his copyright, then as a backpacker. “It’s sure to make a career, he admitted, I’m not a very prudent.”
On his return, he returns to his artistic career, writing serious texts on the Spanish War, dictatorships, abuse. While his album “Escudero 71″ receives the prize of the Academy Charles Cros, he performed on stage with mixed success first and then the real As he perseveres.
After the tour “tender age” and a new Olympia (2007), which was a triumph, “the troubadour poet” returns to his first love: the stage and the communion with the public. It is found in a complete show, accompanied by his daughter and his grandchildren, with his greatest hits and unreleased.
“I’m not really on the radio, since I do not do songs called formatted. They can last six or eight minutes, that food advertising, “he said.
In fifteen albums, he experienced many record companies.
Nostalgic, respectful of old values, it does not recognize in a society “in which the working class has disappeared” but was not provided backward-looking.
A father of three grandfather of young musicians, he had retired in Eure, Giverny, the famous village of the Impressionists, and had just published the second volume of his biography, “The beginning of … more … end. “
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