Pierre Perret
Actor
- Born
- July 9, 1934 (age 92) · Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
Pierre Perret (born 9 July 1934 in Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne) is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of Nangis.
He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he learned to work with jargon and slang. At the age of 14 he signed up to the conservatoire de musique de Toulouse and to a dramatic arts institute. But he wasn't admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris because he had some problems with military justice during his military service. In the meantime, he set up his first band of four musicians in his own name, with whom he played at events throughout the region. In 1957, he was snapped up by Eddie Barclay who signed him on. It was in the studio of Barclay where he met his future wife, Simone Mazaltarim.
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In 1958, Perret carried on touring round Parisian cabaret bars and crossed France and Africa as a part of the American group, The Platters. In November that year, a pleurisy forced him to take two years off in a sanatorium.
A master of the subtleties of the French language and French slang (he even rewrote some of Jean de La Fontaine's fables), his songs are often cheeky (for example Le zizi (The willy), asking questions in a seemingly naive child's tone, but has written more serious political songs, such as La bête est revenue, La petite kurde, Vert de Colère or Lily.
In 1995, he recorded in duet with Sophie Darel the French song Maître Pierre for the album C'était les Années Bleues.
He participated in the committee for the simplification of the administrative language (COSLA).
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Known for
Acting16
- 2022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
- 2021Pierre Perret From A to Z as Self
- 2021Under the Stars of Paris as Usager petit-déjeuner St. Leu
- 2020The Golden Age of Songs From Our Childhood as Self
- 2017La tribu de Pierre Perret chante... Au café du canal as Self
- 2017À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Singer, composer, actor (archive footage)
- 2006Pierre Perret - 50 ans de chansons - Olympia as Self
- 2005Pierre Perret - Casino de Paris 2003 as Self
- 1992Le cadeau des cadeaux
