Jean-Jacques Debout - FRIDA KAHLO

"This album covers songs that I've had in mind for a long time, and others that are very recent, such as "FRIDA KAHLO", "Victor Hugo en exil", "À tout à l’heure (Anne Frank)", "Viens" (a holiday memory from the Basque Country). "La Pergola" is a return to my adolescence spent on Île de Ré where, with Olivier Despax, I played the clarinet and he played the guitar. Our idols back then were Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. I was fascinated by song, as well as by great artists like Charles Trenet, Marcel Mouloudji, Gilbert Bécaud, and Charles Aznavour, whom I met at Raoul Breton's and with whom I collaborated in my early days. But also my great friend Barbara, with whom I wrote several songs. The sources of my inspiration are lived moments, and so as not to forget them, Chantal helped me to leave a trace. This is what makes up this very last album." JEAN-JACQUES DEBOUT