Alain Barrière (born Alain Bellec in La Trinité-sur-Mer on November 18, 1935,
died in Carnac on December 18, 2019), the Breton singer with the broken voice,
was the author, every summer for a dozen years from 1962 to 1972, of the slow
song that allowed the most tender rapprochements. The technique was always the
same: languorous rhythm, melodic crescendo and suggestive silence. There was
"Cathy " (1961), which revealed him to the world and won him the Coq d'or de la
chanson française, "Elle était si jolie" (1962), which propelled him to 5th
place in the Eurovision Grand Prix, and...