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Claude Nougaro
The French singer-songwriter Claude Nougaro enjoyed a long, if somewhat
sporadic, musical career which spanned four decades. He came from a musical
family (his father was a respected opera singer and his mother a pianist) and
after failing his baccalaureat he began a career in journalism. His life as a
journalist was interrupted by a short spell in the French Foreign Legion in
Morocco performing his mandatory military service.
During the 1950s he began to publish songs through Marguerite Monnot, songwriter
to Edith Piaf, before eventually taking to the stage himself in cabaret...
