A cabaret-trained voice who blended folk, rock, and jazz across five decades.
For a quick sense of his range, put on "Je voudrais dormir" and then "Dans mon aéroplane blindé". They're only a few years apart, but they feel like different planets.
He never settled into one sound, moving from the bluesy cabaret beginnings to the playful rock of "Dans mon aéroplane blindé" and later, more orchestrated work. That restlessness made his catalog hard to pin down but full of surprises. You hear it in the shift from a song like "Je voudrais dormir" to something like "Cigarette", different moods, same curious voice.
He started in Parisian cabarets, pulling from American folk and blues. By the mid-70s, albums like "BBH 75" showed him folding in jazz and rock, a mix he kept tweaking through records like "Coup de Foudre" and his final album "Amor Doloroso".
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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