Nino Ferrer

Italian-French jazz, rock, R.& B. singer and songwriter. As a young man excellent draftsman and painter in Dali's style, but became very famous for his music. In the 50s he played double bass and banjo on the side of little French myth Richard Bennett and Bill Coleman. Then he tried his hand as a singer with a warm and roca voice - in the style of the great Afro-American singers - making him famous all over the world, especially in France and Italy. He was a poet, musician and author capable of graceful text nonsense with irresistible melodies & rhythms.

Cette biographie – la toute première – dresse un portrait authentique de l’artiste et de l’homme. Nourri du témoignage de sa famille, de ses proches et de nombreux musiciens et professionnels de la musique, étayé par ses archives personnelles, ce livre raconte la trajectoire commencée dans les années30 à Gênes, en Italie, poursuivie en Nouvelle-Calédonie et à Paris, dans un «endroit qui ressemble à la Louisiane», et interrompue tragiquement dans le Lot en 1998…