Boby Lapointe

Robert JeanFrançois Joseph Pascal Lapointe 16 April 1922 29 June 1972 better known by his stage name Boby Lapointe was a French actor and singer noted for his humorous texts alliterations and plays on words Lapointe was born in Pézenas in the Hérault département of southern France A brilliant pupil he prepared for the entrance exam to the Centrale engineering school and SupAero at Montpellier but was conscripted into the Youth Building Projects in 1942 and sent to Linz Austria in 1943 for compulsory work service He escaped the same year and found work as a diver in La Ciotat a suburb of Marseille in 1944 In 1946 he married Colette Maclaud They had two children Ticha born 1948 and Jacky 1950 His first published work Les douze chants dun imbecile appeared in 1951 He moved to Paris and opened a fashion and baby clothes shop still writing and producing plays Later he switched to being a fitter of TV aerials and began singing His fame grew when the actor Bourvil sang Lapointes song Aragon et Castille in the 1954 film Poisson davril In 1960 film director François Truffaut offered him a part in Tirez sur le Pianiste in which he sang Framboise accompanied by Charles Aznavour on piano This marked the start of a career that saw Lapointe perform at major venues throughout France His joyful character led him to build friendships with the likes of Anne Sylvestre Raymond Devos Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens Lapointe was also a mathematician and developed the bibibinary system also known in French as the système Bibi in 1971 Source Article Boby Lapointe from Wikipedia in english licensed under CCBYSA 30