Pierre Barouh

Pierre Barouh born Élie Pierre Barouh 19 February 1934 28 December 2016 was a French writercomposersinger best known for his work on Claude Lelouchs film A Man and a Woman as an actor and the lyricistsinger for Francis Lais music score Barouh was born in Paris and along with his brother Albert and sister was raised in LevalloisPerret Their parents were TurkishJewish stallholders selling fabrics During the Second World War their parents hid them from the Nazis Pierre and his sister in Montournais and Albert in la Limouzinière During these years Élie baptised Pierre lived at La Grèlerie the home of Hilaire and Marie Rocher who had two sons From this time he drew inspiration for songs like À bicyclette Des ronds dans leau and Les Filles du dimanche After the war he was briefly a sports journalist for ParisPresseIntransigeant and also played for the national volleyball B team in the 1950s He spent some months in Portugal and discovered Brazilian music He visited Brazil in 1959 and on his return to Paris got to know the principal Brazilian writers and composers of bossa nova With his first earnings he bought the mill la Morvient by the river in Le Boupère in the Vendée where he had spent part of his childhood There he established a recording studio and welcomed other artists using it to advance the talent of others and creating his own label Saravah in 1965 With the label he wished to mix musicians and styles to multiply musical encounters He worked notably with Pierre Akendengué Areski Belkacem Brigitte Fontaine Nana Vasconcelos Gérard Ansaloni Jacques Higelin Alfred Panou Maurane David McNeil Elis Regina Soon after the labels creation Barouh realised that he was not a manager and so entrusted management to a teenage friend he had known when he was 15 playing volleyball However in 1972 he discovered that this friend had stolen 1500000 francs by means which prevented Barouh from being able to get any of it back as he had given him everything signatures etc As an actor he played the role of the gypsy leader in the film Dou vienstu Johnny and appeared in Lelouchs Une fille et des fusils As writerperformer he had success with La Plage immortalised by Marie Laforêt and the guitarist Claude Ciari Tes dixhuit ans and Monsieur de Furstenberg He shot a documentary on the beginnings of bossa nova with his longtime friend Baden Powell de Aquino In 1966 he participated in the enormous success of the film A Man and a Woman which won the Palme dOr at the 1966 Festival de Cannes He married the actress Anouk Aimée the same year they divorced three years later Barouh died in the Hôpital Cochin in Paris from an infarction on 28 December 2016 at the age of 82 He was buried a week later at Montmartre Cemetery Source Article Pierre Barouh from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30