Marc Ogeret (Sound)

Marc Ogeret (25 February 1932 – 4 June 2018) was a French singer. Ogeret was born in Paris in 1932. His mother was a dressmaker and his father worked in the health service of the ministry of war. At 17, he dropped school and worked as an apprentice in a foundry. He later worked in a Renault car factory. Some comedians among his friends convinced him to join them as an actor, and to accompany them with his guitar. Ogeret started singing around 1954 songs from songwriters such as Félix Leclerc and Léo Ferré outside coffeehouses. Film director Pierre Prévert, the brother of poet Jacques Prévert, gave him the opportunity to sing in Parisian cabarets. Ogeret recorded his show dedicated to poems by Louis Aragon. In 1965, he was offered the opening act for Georges Brassens on Bobino's stage. In 1968, he recorded two sets of revolutionary songs, but the issue was postponed...Read More