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Multiple issues|rewrite=May 2009|unsourced=February 2010|incomplete=February 2010|histinfo=February 2010Expand French|Léo Ferré|date=April 2011Infobox musical artist|name = Léo Ferré|image = Meilland ferré printemps de bourges85.jpg|caption = Léo Ferré (at left) , in April 1985.|background = solo_singer|birth_name =|alias =|birth_date = birth date|1916|8|24|df=y|birth_place = Monaco |death_date = Death date and age|1993|7|14|1916|8|24|df=y|death_place = Castellina in Chianti , Italy|instrument = Piano|genre = Chanson Symphonie|Symphonic French Pop |occupation = French singer-songwriter Writer Printer (publisher)|Printer Conductor Radio Personality|years_active = 1946–1991|label = Le Chant du Monde Odéon Barclay Records CBS Radio Network|CBS RCA Records|RCA EPM La Mémoire et la Mer|website = http://www.leo-ferre.com leo-ferre.com |notable_instruments = Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.
Born in Monaco , Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues. He moved from music-hall to orchestral music, breaking free from the traditional song structure during the 1970s, inventing his own musical territory, powerfully dramatic and unique. He also set to music several poems by the French poète maudit|poètes maudits , such as François Villon , Charles Baudelaire , Paul Verlaine , and Arthur Rimbaud , as well as French poets from the 20th century like Guillaume Apollinaire and Louis Aragon .
He took a central place in the French song world and is a prominent figure in this domain. He was involved in anarchism and worked with Radio Libertaire , an anarchist free radio broadcasting in Paris and around France. Along with Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel , he is considered one of the greatest composers and writers of Music of France|French songs .
http://brassensbrelferre.free.fr Recording of the unique interview with Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel , 6 January 1969
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http://www.lehall.com/galerie/ferre/index.html Pays-Âges de Léo Ferré a gallery of places and people in Ferré's life fr
Léo Ferré AnarchismUse dmy dates|date=May 2011 Persondata | NAME = Ferre, Leo | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 24 August 1916 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Monaco | DATE OF DEATH = 14 July 1993 | PLACE OF DEATH = Castellina in Chianti , Italy
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