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Pierre Perret

Pierre Perret

Actor · b. 1934 · 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. 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). Source: Article "Pierre Perret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Series24

  • TV5.7

    Sacrée soirée

    1987 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV3.6

    Vivement dimanche

    1998 · 9 votes

  • TV7.2

    L'École des fans

    Fan School

    1977 · 2 votes

  • TV8.5

    Apostrophes

    1975 · 4 votes

  • TV9.0

    Midi Première

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV6.1

    C à vous

    2009 · 4 votes

  • TV
  • TV8.0

    Le Grand Échiquier

    1972 · 3 votes

  • TV6.0

    Midi trente

    1972 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    Discorama

    1959 · 1 votes

  • TV5.8

    Télématin

    1985 · 2 votes

  • TV6.1

    Nulle part ailleurs

    1987 · 8 votes

  • TV6.0

    Samedi soir

    1971 · 1 votes

  • TV5.7

    Star Academy

    2001 · 18 votes

  • TV6.2

    30 millions d'amis

    1976 · 3 votes

  • TV
  • TV8.0

    À bout portant

    1968 · 1 votes

  • TV5.0

    Téléthon

    1987 · 1 votes

  • TV

    Amanda

    2016

  • TV7.0

    La Boîte à secrets

    2019 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    La Chanson secrète

    The Secret Song

    2018 · 1 votes

  • TV

Movies10

  • Movie7.2
  • Movie6.7

    Sous les étoiles de Paris

    Under the Stars of Paris

    2021 · 107 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Le Carrefour des enfants perdus

    Children of Chaos

    1944 · 5 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Mosaïque

    1976 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.0

    Les Étoiles de Midi

    Stars at Noon

    1959 · 6 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.3

    Les patates

    Potatoes

    1969 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Le juge

    Judge Roy Bean

    1971 · 2 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Un été sauvage

    A Savage Summer

    1970 · 1 votes