LEO FERRE, French Singer and composer, died in Castellina in Chianti near Sienna, Italy on the 14th July 1993 at the age of 76. He was born in Monte Carlo on the 24th August, 1916.He had been France's most popular singer and was known both for adapting famous poets to song and for his lifelong anarchist views which led to one of his songs MON GENERAL being censored in 1962.With Charles Aznavour he started to sing at the Boeuf Sur Le Toit club in Paris after the war,and was encouraged by Edith Piaf.He gained wide popularity with his Anarchist songs and by adapting verses of poets like Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Aragon he brought poetry to the streets.
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photos taken on 13th Nov.1964 in Paris at the Mutualite Conv Hall during a "Gala du Monde Liberatoire".
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