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 denouncing injustices, died Friday at 82 ans.De his real name Joaquim Escudero, the artist died “as the result of acute respiratory failure,” said his wife Agence France-Presse. With her 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 by cameramen, this tireless activist has never fully accepted codes of show business. He also wrote songs like “A malypense” “Living for ideas,” “The Bohémine,” “Little Mother”, “unwelcome”, “The Age of refugees” or “The Dunce”. “Son of Spanish Republicans, son of refugees, he knew admirably sing this desire for freedom that dwells man’s heart,” said the Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, in a statement.
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He was born in Espinal, in the Spanish province of Navarra, 5 November 1932 before her parents leave the country ravaged by civil war in 1939, to find refuge in Mayenne, then in Paris. He grew up in the popular district 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 of singer-songwriter began briskly. 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 a time 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 is my concierge who told me Leny, I love your voice, the bistro owner who gave me credit,” says the friend of Georges Brassens, his idol, and Léo Ferré.
“I’m not really 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”. Upon his return, he returns to his artistic career, writing serious articles on the Spanish Civil War, dictatorships, abuse. While her 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 make songs called formatted. They sometimes last six or eight minutes, it’s pub grub, “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 outdated. 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 … Following the end … .
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