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Charles Trenet
Acting

Charles Trenet
Homepage
http://www.charles-trenet.net/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1913-05-18,Narbonne, Aude, France
Gender
Male
Biography
Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These songs include "Boum!" (1938), "La Mer" (1946) and "Nationale 7" (1955). Trenet is also noted for his work with musicians Michel Emer and Léo Chauliac, with whom he recorded "Y'a d'la joie" (1938) for the first and "La Romance de Paris" (1941) and "Douce France" (1947) for the latter. He was awarded an Honorary Molière Award in 2000. Trenet was born in Avenue Charles Trenet, Narbonne, Occitanie, France, the son of Françoise Louise Constance (Caussat) and Lucien Etienne Paul Trenet. When he was age seven, his parents divorced, and he was sent to boarding school in Béziers, but he returned home just a few months later, suffering from typhoid fever. It was during his convalescence at home that he developed his artistic talents, such as performing music, painting and sculpting. His mother remarried, and he lived with her and his stepfather, writer Benno Vigny. In 1922, Trenet moved to Perpignan, this time as a day pupil. André Fons-Godail, the "Catalan Renoir" and a friend of the family, took him for excursions with painting. His poetry is said to have the painter's eye for detail and colour.[3] Many of his songs refer to his surroundings such as places near Narbonne, the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean coast. He passed his baccalauréat with high marks in 1927. After leaving school, he left for Berlin, where he studied art, and later, he also briefly studied at art schools in France. When Trenet first arrived in Paris in the 1930s, he worked in a movie studio as a props handler and assistant, and later joined the artists in the Montparnasse neighbourhood. His admiration of the surrealist poet and Catholic mystic Max Jacob (1876–1944) and his love of jazz were two factors that influenced Trenet's songs. From 1933 to 1936, he worked with the Swiss pianist Johnny Hess as a duo known as Charles and Johnny. They performed at various Parisian venues, such as Le Fiacre, La Villa d'Este, the Européen and the Alhambra. They recorded 18 discs for Pathé, the most successful of which was "Quand les beaux jours seront là/Sur le Yang-Tsé-Kiang". The Charles and Johnny records feature Hess on piano, with the two frequently singing in two-part harmonies with quickly alternating solo spots for the two. Around 1935, the duo appeared regularly on the radio on a broadcast titled Quart d'heure des enfants terribles. The duo continued until 1936 when Trenet was called up for national service. After performing this, he received the nickname that he would retain all his life: "Le Fou chantant" (The Singing Madman). He began his solo career in 1937, recording for Columbia, his first disc being "Je chante/Fleur bleue". The exuberant "Je chante" gave rise to the notion of Trenet as a "singing vagabond", a theme that appeared in a number of his early songs and films. He shot to stardom very quickly; as Jean Cocteau put it, when Trenet sang, "He was so young, so fresh that the bar yielded to a rustic decor, the projectors became the stiff branches of a cherry tree, the microphone a hollyhock, the piano a cow." ... Source: Article "Charles Trenet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

It Happened on the 36 Candles

5.5

It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957-10-16

Guet-apens, des crimes invisibles

8.7

Guet-apens, des crimes invisibles
2023-04-19

5.8

Paris Romance
1941-10-03

Bouquet de joie

5

Bouquet de joie
1951-10-25

Love Around the Clock

6.333

Love Around the Clock
1943-11-10

6

I Sing
1938-11-30

5.7

Boom on Paris
1954-02-19

Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur

8

Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022-03-01

La Lucarne magique

0

La Lucarne magique
1971-10-04

9

Giovinezza
1952-01-01

The Enchanted Road

7

The Enchanted Road
1938-11-25

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

7.2

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07

4

L'Or du duc
1965-09-23

5.5

Frédérica
1942-11-18

5.6

Adieu Léonard
1943-09-01

Springtime in Paris

4.25

Springtime in Paris
1957-03-08

Melodie der Welt

0

Melodie der Welt
1956-01-11

Victoires de la musique

3.3

Victoires de la musique
1985-11-23

La Chance aux chansons

6.5

La Chance aux chansons
1984-03-26

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Cadet Rousselle

0

Cadet Rousselle
1971-11-04

8

Dim Dam Dom
1965-03-07

6

Samedi soir
1971-01-09

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12

7.5

Numéro un
1975-04-05

0

Système 2
1975-01-19

9

Midi Première
1975-01-06

6.75

Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

6.6

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022-12-21

8.5

Apostrophes
1975-01-10

La Chance aux chansons

6.5

La Chance aux chansons
1984-03-26

Le monde est à vous

0

Le monde est à vous
1987-09-13

6

Midi trente
1972-03-06

5.7

Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02

5.7

Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02