Colette Magny

Colette Magny was a France singer/songwriter having a propensity for protest tunes whose musical design was informed by blues, jazz, folk, poetry, and spoken term. Born on Oct 31, 1926, in Paris, France, she produced her documenting debut in 1963 using the solitary “Melocoton” on CBS. The solitary, the closest she’d ever arrive to a mainstream breakthrough strike, was subsequently put together on her behalf full-length solo recording debut, Les Tuileries (1964). Her last launch on CBS, Les Tuileries is usually made up of musical adaptations of functions by authors Victor Hugo, António Jacinto, Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke, Antonio Machado, and Louis Aragon, and also a few American traditionals and some originals. Magny came back two years later on with “Avec” Poème (1966), an experimental full-length work educated by musique concrète which André Almuro is usually acknowledged for the music. Following this experimental work for the short-lived label Disques Mouloudji, Magny started her lengthy association using the label Le Chant du Monde, you start with the record Colette Magny (1967), occasionally described by its album-opening tune, “Vietnam 67.” Following albums on Le Chant du Monde consist of Magny 68 (1969), Feu et Rythme (1970), Répression (1973), Transit (1975), Chili el Peuple Crève… (1976), Visage — Community (1977), Je Veux Chaanter (1979), Thanakan (1981), Cahier d’une Tortue (1981), and Chansons Pour Titine (1983). In old age, Magny self-released the record Kevork (1989) for the label Colette Magny Advertising, plus some of her Le Chant du Monde result was reissued in the first ’90s. Her loss of life on June 12, 1997, in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France, sparked another circular of reissues including Melocoton (1997), which put together the shows of her CBS result, and Blues (1999), which is actually a repackaged edition of her last Le Chant du Monde recording, Chansons Pour Titine.