One of the most cheeky voice of French music after the war became extinct in 96 years. She held a cabaret in Montmartre before embarking on the boards.
Patachou passed away on 30 April, in Neuilly. She would have been 97 years old on 10 June. A woman of heart, of mind, of great talent disappears. His son, Pierre Billon, author of songs, which announced this sad news.
Henriette Ragon was a Parisian par excellence. She held several jobs before becoming in 1948 the direction of a cabaret-restaurant at 13 rue du Mont-Cenis, Montmartre. His name Patachou. An address that quickly became famous and that Americans particularly liked. Chez Patachou (renamed the journalists as well), the beautiful mistress to clear eyes and sings young program: the Brassens was revealed! But we also heard there Francis Lemarque, Léo Ferré, Aznavour.
She recorded his first records. The Lament of the Butte, but also the magnificent Bal in Temporal words of André Hardellet, music Guy Béart. A masterpiece.
After the ABC and Bobino, she triumphs at New York’s Waldorf Astoria. Then she meets Arthur Lesser, American producer who will also be important in the US than in France where he was raised. A happy marriage. Lesser died in 1979.
Patachou who toured with Renoir, Guitry in 1950, is like his friends, shaken by yéyé generation.
The filmmakers not forget not: Jean-Claude Guiguet then other Jean-Claude Biette, Pierre Salvadori, Bertrand Blier and even Leos Carax or Frédéric Auburtin. In the theater too, it is requested and Jean-Laurent Cochet as Paul Vecchiali offer her best roles.
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