Artist: Hugues Aufray
Genre(s):
Chanson
Retro
Vocal
Rock
Other
Pop: Japan
Pop
Folk
Discography:
Le Meilleur De
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Chante Felix Leclerc
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
Best Of Hugues Aufray
Year: 1998
Tracks: 29
Aufray Trans Dylan - Disque 2
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Aufray Trans Dylan - Disque 1
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Les Annees Barclay CD2
Year: 1993
Tracks: 20
Les Annees Barclay CD1
Year: 1993
Tracks: 20
Les Annees Barclay
Year: 1993
Tracks: 20
Master Serie
Year: 1988
Tracks: 21
Hugues 1980
Year:
Tracks: 9
Collection CD3
Year:
Tracks: 26
Collection CD2
Year:
Tracks: 25
Collection CD1
Year:
Tracks: 25
Caravane
Year:
Tracks: 12
The euphony of French ethnic music minstrel Hugues Aufray existed in severe opposition to the dominant yé-yé sound that henpecked pop charts in the mid-'60s. A adherent of Bob Dylan wHO regularly adapted his hero's songs into French, Aufray yet proved a popular front-runner whose own compositions, to the highest degree notably "Santiano" and "Celine," apace entered the mainstream vernacular. Born August 18, 1929, in the Parisian suburbia of Neuilly tyre Seine, Hughes played out a lot of his adolescence in a Dominican schooltime in the southward of France after the German military control forced his family to flee their abode. Following his parents' split up, he relocated with his father to Madrid, reversive to Paris in 1948 to work at the Ecole dES Beaux-Arts. To score ends play, Aufray sang on the streets for spare change, eventually going school a year later to accomplish his military tariff by serving a stint in the Alps as a member of the mountain infantry. Aufray played out a lot of the fifties tattle in Parisian bars and cabarets, building a crowd-pleasing repertoire henpecked by Latin American ethnic music songs and Georges Brassens compositions. Only in 1959 did he start to make greater ill fame after winning a local amateur competitor sponsored by radio station Europe n°1. The exposure helped Aufray demesne a record deal with the Barclay label, and by year's end he issued his debut single, "Y'avait Fanny Qui Chantait." The track record cursorily captured the attention of Maurice Chevalier, wHO invited him to travel to the U.S. and perform as part of the "New York au Bal" all-star display case. Aufray stayed in New York City for several weeks, and subsequently a abbreviated return to Paris he once again traveled stateside, befriending tribe superstars Peter, Paul & Mary as well as a rising singer/songwriter named Bob Dylan. When Hughes once again went home to Paris, he carried several Dylan compositions in his travelling bag, also adopting the alleged "skiffle" style popular among students on both sides of the Atlantic. With 1961's "Santiano," Hughes scored his first hit, introducing a modern folk music standard that remains a favorite of successive generations of schoolchildren. Two years later he entered the annual Eurovision Song Contest, representing Luxembourg with "Dès Que le Printemps Revient," and opened for rock sensation Johnny Hallyday at the notable Olympia. Finally, in 1965 he completed a longtime finish with Aufray Chante Dylan, a collecting of Dylan covers that vaulted him to fresh fame throughout much of western Europe. The 1966 strike "Celine" proved another pop dearie, but in 1970 he abruptly changed course, abandoning the populist anthems and nature hymns of premature efforts to farm Avec Amour, a deep familiar collection of making love songs consecrated to his married woman Helene. Commercial and decisive reactions were profoundly interracial, and Aufray played out the future year in congener seclusion, tending to his farm in the Ardeche. He lastly resurfaced in 1973 headlining the Paris floorshow Tête de l'Art, followed by a series of gigs dubbed "Espace Vert" presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. Aufray played out the remainder of the tenner making brief returns to the public eye followed by retentive stretches at his state home. He shortly emerged in 1976 with the album Aquarium, followed by a short solo hitch, and deuce years afterwards delivered the two-disc fix Transatlantic, which he supported with a three-month erolia minutilla at the Paris nightclub Don Camillo. But 1980's Hugues and 1982's Caravane passed without tender live appearances, and only in 1983 did Aufray return to the stage, performing the Olympia as well as a short African tour. Petit Homme appeared iI years later, only by at present both radio and the press turned a deaf capitulum to Aufray's music. He withal retained a fast cult following and in 1991 illustrious his thirtieth day of remembrance as a transcription creative person with a series of sold-out dates at the Olympia (afterwards yielding the 1993 live LP Route 91). With 1995's Aufray Trans Dylan, he returned to the music that was the source of his initial intake, and in 1999, at the age of 70, issued Chacun Sa Mer, an LP influenced by Celtic and Latin traditions. With 2005's Hugues Aufray Chante Félix Leclerc, Aufray noted another seminal influence, crediting the Quebecois legend with formation his have determination to write and sing in French.
