Fernando Trueba's ‘playlist’: Léo Ferré's unleashed poetry | Babelia
Léo Ferré started out as a cabaret singer from the rive gauche Parisian. Of course, not one more, he always distinguished himself by the poetic demand of his texts. He started singing after World War II and quickly stars like Trenet, Edith Piaf or Juliette Greco They started recording their songs, and there came the consecration.
As it happened to so many, there is a Ferré before and another after May '68, of which he ended up being a symbol. His style changed, for the better, to look more like himself and less like no other. Some songs from that period are symphonies of words, unleashed poetry, devastating ... That's my favorite Ferré: Préface, Il n’y a plus rien, Et basta! ...
He has conducted and composed for orchestra, collaborated with rock groups, has put music for Verlaine and Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Apollinaire. Although Ferré does not need "lyricists" ... He wrote a novel, Benoît Misère, which is a prodigy of poetic, enveloping, hypnotic prose.
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