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Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (French pronunciation: [lwi ʃaʁl oɡystɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ tʁenɛ]; 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.
"La Mer" ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet. The song was first recorded by the French singer Roland Gerbeau in 1945. When Trenet's version was released in 1946, it became an unexpected hit and has remained a chanson classic and jazz standard ever since.
May 5, 2013 · The creator of La Mer began life in the south of France not far from the Mediterranean, in a street subsequently renamed Avenue Charles Trenet. His mother ran away with another man in 1917 and his parents divorced.
Feb 21, 2001 · Born May 18, 1913, in Narbonne, in southern France, Louis Charles August Claude Trenet wrote his first song at the age of 10. He studied art and design, published poetry and theater reviews and...
- Charles Trenet was born on May 18, 1913 in Narbonne, France. - At the beginning of his career, he was nicknamed "le fou chantant". - He wrote nearly 1,000 songs, many of them poetically inspired.
Charles Trenet (1913-2001) was born and spent much of his early life in southwestern France (“Occitanie”) around places like Narbonne, Béziers, Perpignan and the Mediterranean coast. He had a lengthy career of more than 60 years but a challenging childhood.
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Oct 3, 2020 · The mid-1940s tunes “La Vie En Rose” and “La Mer” are sometimes cited as the two most successful international song hits to come from France. Here the composer sings his famous French ...
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