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Charles Trenet
Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These songs include "Boum!" (1938), "La Mer" (1946) and "Nationale 7" (1955). Trenet is also noted for his work with musicians Michel Emer and Léo Chauliac, with whom he recorded "Y'a d'la joie" (1938) for the…
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culture · French singer-songwriter (1913–2001) · composer · singer · singer-songwriter · songwriter · actor · painter · chansonnier · writer · musician · also Charles Trenet, Louis-Charles-Augustin-Georges Trenet, Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet, Trenet
Born 18 May 1913 · Died 19 February 2001 · Q212549
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2021· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
A service center on the A9 autoroute between Narbonne and Béziers was renamed in his memory
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Légendes”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet, Volume 9, 1952 - 1953 : "En Avril à Paris"”.
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2008· 4 entries
Released album “Le Monde extraordinaire de Charles Trenet”.
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Released album “Légendes de la chanson française”.
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Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet Vol. 8: "La Folle Complainte"”.
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Released album “Je chante”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “100 chansons”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Charles Trenet : 48 titres originaux”.
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Released album “Je n’irai pas à Notre-Dame”.
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Released album “La Vie qui va”.
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Released album “20 Chansons d’or”.
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet Vol. 7: "Formidable !"”.
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Released album “Le Cœur de Paris. Original 1948-1954 Recordings. Vol. 3”.
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Released album “Chanson Passion”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Les plus grandes chansons”.
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Le Soleil et la Lune”.
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Released album “Douce France”.
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Released album “Collection Légende”.
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Released album “40 Historical French Chansons”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet, Volume 6, 1939 ‐ 1951 : "L'Âme des Poètes"”.
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Released album “Charles Trenet, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “The Gold Collection”.
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2001· 10 entries
Released album “« La mer » (original recordings 1938–1946)”.
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Released album “Le Fou Chantant”.
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Died 2001-02-19.
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Released album “Anthologie 2 CD : Le fou chantant”.
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Released album “Le Fou chantant 1937–1950”.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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Released album “La Mer: Twenty Five Classics 1933-1950”.
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Released album “Les Légendes d'or”.
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Released album “Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons”.
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Released album “Charles Trenet”.
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Les Chansons de la période CBS, Volume 1: 1971-1976, Au bal de la nuit”.
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Released album “L’Essentiel”.
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Released album “En avant la musique”.
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Released album “Les Triomphes de la chanson française”.
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “Les poètes descendent dans la rue”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Charles Trenet”.
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Released album “Paris Rive Gauche”.
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Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet : The Complete Charles Trenet 1933 - 1947”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “A Portrait of Charles Trénet”.
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Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet, Volume 5, 1943 – 1947 : « La Mer »”.
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1997· 6 entries
Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet, Volume 3, 1937 – 1941 : « Boum ! »”.
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Released album “Y'a d'la joie”.
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Released album “The Gold Collection: 40 Chansons d’or”.
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Released album “Les Meilleurs - Y’a de la joie”.
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Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet, Volume 4, 1941 – 1943 : « Que reste‐t‐il de nos amours ? »”.
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Released album “Selection Charles Trenet”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Intégrale Charles Trénet, Volume 2, 1934 – 1938 : « Y’a d’la joie »”.
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Released album “Anthologie: La Joie de vivre et de chanter”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Boum ! His greatest recordings 1937–1943”.
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Released album “Fais ta vie”.
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Released album “Les Chansons éternelles”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Ses Plus Belles Chansons”.
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Released album “Anthologie”.
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Released album “Les Inédits”.
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Released album “Le Meilleur de Charles Trenet”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Moi j'aime le music hall”.
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Released album “La Mer”.
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Released album “Mon cœur s’envole”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “The Extraordinary Garden”.
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Released album “Le Fou chantant, Volume 3: 1945-1950”.
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1988· 7 entries
Released album “Le Fou chantant, Volume 1: 1937-1939”.
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Released album “Le Fou chantant, Volume 5: 1952–1955”.
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Released album “Bravo à Charles Trenet”.
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Released album “Le Fou chantant, Volume 7: 1959–1963”.
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Released album “Le Fou chantant, Volume 4: 1950–1952”.
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Released album “Le Fou chantant, Volume 6: 1955–1959”.
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Released album “Le Fou chantant, Volume 2: 1940-1945”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Compact d’or”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Florilège 86”.
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1982).
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1981· 1 entry
Trenet made a comeback with an album devoted to sentimental memories of his childhood
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Disque d'or”.
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1979· 1 entry
Shut himself away from the world for the next two years
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Il vend des téléviseurs aux paysans”.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Le Disque d'or de Charles Trenet”.
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Declaring that he was retiring from the music world
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1973· 2 entries
Trenet, who had just celebrated his 60th birthday, recorded the album Chansons en liberté
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Released album “Chansons en liberté”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Joue-moi de l'électrophone”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Fidèle”.
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1970· 2 entries
Trenet flew to Japan to represent France at the Universal Exhibition in Osaka
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Released album “Des vedettes aux idoles”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Chansons sans époque”.
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1963· 1 entry
Trenet spent 28 days in prison in Aix-en-Provence
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “Je rechante ! Mes anciennes chansons en stéréo !”.
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1960· 1 entry
Returned to the Théâtre de l'Étoile, appearing on stage for the first time without the famous trilby hat that long had been part of his act
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Chansons d’aujourd’hui / Ces chansons ont vingt ans”.
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1958· 1 entry
Trenet was the headlining act at the Bobino and the Alhambra
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1957· 1 entry
And since then by artists including Frank Sinatra, Blossom Dearie, Sam Cooke, and Dusty Springfield
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Chansons claires : 10 chansons nouvelles”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Mes grands succès”.
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1954· 4 entries
Released album “Un parisien à New-York”.
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Released album “Édith Piaf rencontre Charles Trenet”.
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Performed at the Olympia music-hall in Paris for the first time
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Released album “Charles Trenet et Jacques Hélian vous invitent à la danse”.
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1950· 1 entry
Released album “Songs of Charles Trenet”.
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1937· 1 entry
Recording for Columbia, his first disc being "Je chante/Fleur bleue"
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1922· 1 entry
Trenet moved to Perpignan, this time as a day pupil
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-05-18.
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