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about
Singer, composer and lyricist Guy Béart was born in Egypt under the name Guy Béhar-Hassan. He came from a Jewish family and due to the profession of his father he spent most of his childhood abroad in countries like Libanon, Greece, Mexico and France.
He developed a passion for chanson and when he was 17 he left for Paris to study at the École Nationale de Musique. It wasn’t for long before his raspy voice was also heard in Paris’ cabarets. Great vedettes like Patachou and Zizi Jeanmaire noticed his talent and put his work on their repertoire.
Even the great Maurice Chevalier was interested in recording one of his
songs; ‘Chandernagor’. Eventually he didn’t. He was worried that the lyrics were too intellectual for his audience. It was later performed and recorded by Juliette Gréco. She never had the problem of something being too intellectual…
In the late forties France still hadn’t renounced some of its French-Indian
colonies (France called them trading posts). In ‘Chandernagor’ these
colonized areas become certain intimate body parts of an exotic and
sensual woman. She, willingly or not, displays her ‘hills’, her ‘valleys’, her
‘geographical flower’ and her inextinguishable ‘Bengal fire’ to him. Saying
goodbye can be a hard thing to do…
lyrics
Elle avait, elle avait un Chandernagor de classe
Elle avait, elle avait un Chandernagor râblé
Pour lui seul, pour lui seul
Elle découvrait ses cachemires
Ses jardins ses beau quartiers, enfin son Chandernagor
Pas question, dans ces conditions
D'abandonner les Comptoirs de l'Inde
Elle avait, elle avait deux Yanaon de cocagne
Elle avait, elle avait deux Yanaon ronds et frais
Et lui seul, et lui seul s'aventurait dans sa brousse
Ses vallées, ses vallons, ses collines de Yanaon
Pas question, dans ces conditions
D'abandonner les Comptoirs de l'Inde
Elle avait, elle avait un petit Mahé fragile
Elle avait, elle avait un petit Mahé secret
Mais je dus à la mousson éteindre mes feux de Bengale
S’arracher, s'arracher aux délices de Mahé
Pas question, dans ces conditions
De faire long feu dans les Comptoirs de l'Inde
Elle avait, elle avait le Pondichéry facile
Elle avait, elle avait le Pondichéry accueillant
Aussitôt, aussitôt, c'est à un nouveau touriste
Qu'elle fit voir son comptoir, sa flore, sa géographie
Pas question, dans ces conditions
De revoir un jour les comptoirs de l’Inde
Diana is a singer from the Netherlands with a love for musical diversity and a passion for the human voice. She graduated at
the conservatory of Utrecht in 2012 in the direction of jazz & pop, but also received extensive classical training during that period. In 2015 she released her debut album containing duets with double bass player Harry Emmery....more